Griffin's weasel words won't wash

Proxy Voting Forms and the Truth

Posted by admin on Jun 21st, 2011 to Andrew Brons' BNP Ideas site

The mailing out of proxy voting forms by the Chairman is legal in terms of the party’s current constitution, but the wording of the accompanying letter contains malicious lies which are designed to trick members into supporting the motions.

In particular, the line in the letter which says “Should we stay with an Advisory Council or move on to a largely elected National Executive?” is highly deceitful because, as explained earlier, the majority of the “new” executive in the Chairman’s proposals are in fact appointed, and not elected.

In addition, the following sentence in the letter, “Should we stick with the possibility of a leadership battle every single year or opt for the certainty of a leadership contest every four or five years?” deliberately hides the fact that at the party conference in December 2010, the proposal which was accepted, specifically empowered the fully elected National Executive with the ability to recall the National Leader at any time, should he lose the confidence of the members.

There was thus no “guaranteed” four or five year term in the original proposals, only a term of office subject to the wishes of the membership.

Note also the sentence: “I direct my proxy to vote on the following resolutions as I have indicated by marking the appropriate box with an ‘X’. If no indication is given, my proxy will vote or abstain from voting at their discretion, and I authorise my proxy to vote (or abstain from voting) as they think fit in relation to any other matter which is properly put before the meeting.”

What this means is that anyone who sends the proxy form in, even if they are opposed to the motions, grants the Chairman the right to vote any way they choose on any other matter which comes before the meeting!

Astute party members will now have seen the Mugabe-esque strategy that the Chairman is following:

1. Hold the GMM in a place which makes it as difficult as possible for the majority of members to get to;

2. Recruit “proxy votes” from those members unable to attend by telling them outrageous lies in the letter which accompanies the proxy voting form.

If the Chairman had been fair and honest in his intention with the proxy voting form mailing, he would have included the counter-arguments to the motions as well.

He did not, and this is a clear indication of an attempt to hoodwink those party members who are not aware of the chicanery and Third World-standards to which our Chairman has resorted.

3. Trick the members in to giving the proxy voters a blank cheque to vote as they see fit on any other motion which comes before the meeting.

This latest devious move has underlined once again the urgent need for complete reform in this party, from top to bottom. A culture of corruption, deceit, lies and deception has taken hold and needs to be rooted out if our party is to survive.

All members are urged once again to ensure that they attend the GMM so that these disgraceful and flagrant violations of decency, fair play and honesty, are overwhelmingly rejected.

COMMENTS

Chris Roberts says:

June 21, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Should the proxy votes have been issued with the original GMM invitation packs and as this was not done is the leadership in breach of the 14 day notice rule? In my humble opinion it is doubtful that the GMM has been properly convened.