[NOTE FROM TODD THE MODERATOR: The following article documents yet another recent example of an anti-immigration party dramatically increasing its share of the vote. This time it's the British National Party. Let's keep up the pressure on our own elected officials. For information on a quick and easy way to contact your elected officials, visit http://www.visi.com/juan/congress - TODD]
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***********************************BNP vote in Burnley soars as BNP launches joint campaign with Sikhs and Hindus
In a double council by-election in Burnley, Lancs, the British National Party took 19% (181 votes) of the vote in Trinity Ward and 23% (283 votes) in Lower House. The BNP's Carol Hughes took second place in Trinity Ward. The average vote of 21% is substantially up on the 12% average won by BNP candidates in the council elections in the town in May last year.
Neither ward was regarded as a particularly good one for the Party, which ran a solid but low-key campaign involving local activists only. The Labour Party, by contrast, threw everything bar the kitchen sink into the campaign, including having cabinet ministers, TV personality 'Baldrick' (Tony Robinson) and the sitting MP either canvassing or attempting to blackmail local electors with threats of job losses if they dared to support the British National Party.
In addition, Burnley Lib-Dem leader Roger Frost urged his supporters to 'vote Labour', and Labour council boss Stuart Caddy praised the Lib-Dems for uniting against the 'menace' of the BNP. Meanwhile, the Commission for Racial Equality paid for a big advertising campaign in the local press.
In view of the huge amount of Labour Party literature distributed during the campaign, the BNP will be making a very careful analysis of Labour's election returns, and will not hesitate to force the resignation of the Labour victor in Trinity Ward if it emerges that the budget was over-spent.
The BNP's Burnley organiser, local accountant Steve Smith, declared himself "well satisfied" with last night's result: "Our rapidly rising vote shows that it's only a matter of time before we win in Burnley. Just over a couple of years ago we only had two members in the town; now we're getting more than one in five votes. And when we stand a full slate of candidates in next year's local elections, Labour just won't have the manpower to run the kind of Over The Top campaign against us that we've seen over the last few weeks. Labour will run out of steam, while we're growing stronger by the week."
Meanwhile the BNP's Ethnic Liason Committee is to launch a joint effort with Sikhs and Hindus against the Islamic threat to Britain. This Saturday will see the launch of the latest stage of the BNP's Campaign Against Islam, with a major poster campaign "Islam Out of Britain," an anti-Islam demonstration in Central London, and the Internet launch of a major audio recording project.
The recording, which will also be available on CD and professionally produced audiocassette, includes a warning to the British people by a Sikh who saw his father hacked to death by a Muslim mob in 1947, and an analysis by a Hindu of the tradition of deception by which Islam advances itself in a society in which it is a recent arrival. In addition, BNP Chairman Nick Griffin explores the various parts of the Koran which make it all too clear that, far from being the 'peaceful and tolerant religion' of PC mythology, Islam is an aggressive, intolerant monster that brings sectarian strife and eventually civil war to every country where it gains a foothold.