Heads Griffin 'wins', tails the BNP loses

The following article comes from Eddy Butler's blog.

Eddy is an experienced, former senior officer of the British National Party, who was expelled by Griffin, via a patently corrupt process, following a valiant but unsuccessful leadership challenge last year. The BNP cannot afford to lose such veterans as Eddy if it is to succeed in its true mission of returning our country to its rightful owners, the British people.

Eddy continues to be employed, as a political researcher, on the European 'parliament' staff of Andrew Brons, the BNP's first and most senior MEP, who is currently challenging Griffin for the leadership of what remains of our party.

Surely, even the most cretinous of tacticians can see that Griffin's chronic failure to honour any rules for the management of the BNP, other than those he makes up to suit himself as he goes along, is a self-defeating and self-destructive policy, for both himself and more importantly, the party. Such a policy seems almost designed to neutralize the BNP as a political force and to render it both insignificant and impotent. Perhaps it is designed for that very purpose.

Whether Griffin's malignant factiousness is whistled up at the behest of the secret state, or simply used as a means of supposedly protecting his family's first call on the party's dwindling revenue stream, it now seems clear that the BNP can make no further headway while Griffin remains at the steering-wheel.

This presents members with a stark choice: either Griffin goes, or the BNP continues to wither on the vine.

EXCITED BY HIS OWN BRILLIANCE

Nick Griffin can hardly disguise his glee at the apparent success of his knavish scheme to subvert the BNP’s internal democratic processes for the second year running.

As always it comes out in his Twitters rather as puss [sic] rises out of a boil. Take this beauty:

Around a thousand proxy votes now in. Being kept sealed until Advisory Council meeting on Saturday.

A thousand indeed. If, say, 150 attend the now somewhat pointless General Members’ Meeting on Sunday then perhaps 1,200 votes will decide the three proposals to change the constitution. This means that Nick Griffin will require around 800 votes at most to get his changes through (a 2/3rds majority being required).

Something tells me that Saturday’s AC meeting will see enough pieces of paper with crosses in the right places to render the GMM in St Helens superfluous.

However he is clearly disturbed that in doing so he has been exposed as a bare faced liar. Any ‘victory’ he achieves will be of the pyrrhic variety. It will only be courtesy of the unknown and faceless armchair ‘paper’ members. The overwhelming majority of activists – those who understand and can see him for what he is – will only have their levels of disgust at his antics increased to the point where they cannot stomach him any longer and if he then wins the leadership election they will vote with their feet. He will be left with nothing.

This is no doubt why he tweeted the following:

Full video of the definitive Sunday meeting at Annual Conference now on our website. I'm amazed by the blatant disregard for truth shown by Searchlight's useful idiots who posted footage from the previous day to support their lie that we have ignored the conference decision.

If you're coming to the General Members' Meeting, do watch the Conference video on bnp.org.uk

And on subject of liars, don't forget to keep on covering up the Daily Mirror!

Here is the article with the video:

http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/gmm-motions-line-2010-conference-vote

He is desperate to convince isn't he? This has resulted in a ‘he said, she said’ type of argument with the ‘rebel’ BNP Ideas website retorting as follows:

http://bnpideas.com/?p=402

Perhaps the most interesting aspect however is the familiar Griffinite claim that those who oppose him are ‘Searchlight’s useful idiots’. By this he means that they are doing Searchlight’s bidding by pointing out his lies, but possibly are unaware of the fact, and they are too stupid to realise it. Nick Griffin is one of those people who fools himself. He lies so much that he starts to believe his own lies. He has practiced [sic] mock indignation so many times that he gets indignant if you question his fake indignation. He will go through the range of emotions. From anger to sorrow, with a special appearance of that trusty onion and a few tears for good measure.

Of course he says all his opponents are ‘liars’ - Andrew Brons, his fellow MEP, is a liar. You may recall that like a slimey [sic] coward he called me a liar when I left the room in Brussels recently. When I came back in the room and confronted him he couldn’t remember any lies that I had told. That says it all.

The simple fact is Searchlight and the entire enemy establishment are more than happy for Nick Griffin to remain as Chairman of the BNP. He is inept and a walking talking PR disaster area. He is made for them.

IF HE WINS ON SUNDAY...

I will remind you what will happen if he does indeed ‘triumph’ on Sunday.

Nominations for the leadership election will open this Monday and close the Monday after (4th July). There is a mistaken belief that ten nomination signatures are required. In fact no signatures are required at all.

The eleven hustings meetings (one per region) will be held between 7th July and 21st July.

I can inform you that the National Organiser has already commanded the Regional Organisers to arrange these hustings meetings.

Ballot papers will be sent out on 7th July and must be returned by 25th July. The count will take place on 25th July.

It will all be over and done with before you have time to catch breath. Or before a challenger has time to get his campaign going. Has any potential challenger and his team got themselves in a position where they can spring into action? Or will there be a flurry of legal challenges? Or will Nick Griffin – against the odds – lose on Sunday? If Nick Griffin gets his constitutional change through via his postal vote chicanery, will it be a harbinger for what will happen in the actual leadership contest? Drama indeed. We will have to wait and see.

I recommended at an early stage to go with the flow and accept the constitutional change, ratchet up the challenge campaign and go for it immediately and with massive vigour. I stand by that. A defeat in the constitutional struggle will not be a good start to a leadership campaign, and as I have spelt out the timetable is very restricted with no room for a day being wasted by inaction.

About 1,300 people ‘nominated’ in last year’s leadership challenge out of 4,200 members with over two years continuous membership. That leadership challenge nomination process was protracted and relatively well advertised – certainly compared to the proxy vote element to this GMM. The 1,000 returned proxies implies that the two year membership is around the figure I have previously suggested (about 4,000) and that an inordinately large number of signatures (a good 800) will be required by any challenger should Nick Griffin’s constitutional changes somehow fail to get through on Sunday.

That is not an enticing prospect.

PROXY.... OR POSTAL VOTES?

Although Nick Griffin has chosen to call his new process a proxy vote, it in fact bears all the characteristics of a postal vote. Under proper proxy votes you nominate someone to vote for you. On Nick Griffin’s proxy vote form, the member votes then selects a proxy to hand the vote in. It is effectively a postal vote.

The same form allows the member to select a proxy to do their thinking form them – to act as a real proxy.

Thus it is a composite proxy and postal vote form.

As there is no provision in the constitution for postal votes in voting for constitutional changes, this is perhaps one area that might be open to legal challenge.

If you want to take a look at the forms, I reproduced them in the previous article.

Of course many of you who should have received your forms haven’t, and many who shouldn’t have. The entire membership database is in melt down. The BNP’s internal administration is in utter chaos.

Do you think they will be able to tell if someone who has voted by proxy also turns up to vote in person at the GMM?

Do you think that their leading henchmen will not have thought of that one and already voted by proxy? Or do you think they might have been voting by proxy for untold numbers of ‘ghost’ members all week, with freshly printed proxy forms. Vote early vote often. No wonder there have been 1,000 proxy/postal votes sent in.

I just remembered that’s why the BNP has always opposed postal votes. It is a system that is wide open to abuse and corruption. It is of course Nick Griffin’s favoured method.

Nick Griffin represents everything we are fighting against, down to the smallest detail.

ANY HIDDEN ‘GOODIES’?

We should always look out for hidden extras when Nick Griffin prepares a document. Let me take another look at that proxy form. Hmmm. Let me see, is there anything?

Ah yes found it - here:

‘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 other matters might be ‘properly put before the meeting’? After all two weeks’ notice is surely required before anything can be put to members at the GMM.

Try this for size:

‘The meetings that day will be voting on the Motions and amendments on the enclosed sheets and on any further amendments put forward by the Advisory Council.’

So according to Nick Griffin the AC can add extra amendments and I will remind you that the AC is meeting on Saturday – today!

Anyone who has sent their form in and instructed their chosen proxy to vote as they have indicated, has also authorised their proxy to vote on any other matter that the AC chooses to add to the GMM. They have signed a blank cheque.

Will Nick Griffin get his hand-picked AC to make all sorts of imaginative amendments and then pass them on the nod via his 1,000 proxy votes? Or will he hold them back and decide whether to pass them on the day, depending on how things go? The members actually attending the GMM will be powerless to do anything about it.

I am sure the GMM will be interesting anyway and that a frank exchange of views will take place.

For my part I have been expelled!