Griffin must now suspend himself for breaking the 'rules'!

BNP Head Office Breaks Own “Unbiased” Election Rules

Posted by admin, on 5 July, 2011, to Andrew Brons' BNP Ideas web site

Not three days into the leadership election, but the British National Party head office has already broken its own “unbiased” election rules in its behaviour towards Andrew Brons MEP.

On the BNP website, the party’s National Organiser Adam Walker was quoted as saying that he trusted that this was “going to be a good clean fight between two Party heavyweights.”

However, the party’s main website has already broken the rules. Mr Brons’s website, BNPIdeas.com, took down all references to the leadership challenge in the expectation that the contest would indeed be fair.

However, the party’s main website has still not restored the links to Mr Brons’s MEP website and now only boasts links to Nick Griffin’s MEP site.

In addition, the big banner advertisement for Mr Brons’s site which used to feature alongside that for Mr Griffin’s site, has also been removed.

If that was not enough, the blatantly biased “news coverage” given to Mr Griffin on the party’s website is obvious in the cringingly sycophantic coverage given to a street protest in Telford. While the BNP site has given much prominence to that event, including six large pictures, Mr Brons’s invitation and visit to Buckingham Palace has been deliberately and completely ignored.

Mr Brons’s supporters have been scrupulously fair in the campaign so far. John Walker, Radio RWB coordinator and prominent supporter of Mr Brons, has for example, just finished recording an interview with Pat Harrington about the Solidarity Trade Union, and will broadcast that his site on his Radio RWB site despite Mr Harrington’s influence and control over Mr Griffin.

“Regardless of my own personal feelings about individuals in this leadership contest, I have consistently played a straight down the line approach and have not shown favour in my coverage,” Mr Walker told BNP Ideas.

“This neutral position is however now being put under strain by the blatantly biased approach of the party’s website, which has airbrushed Mr Brons out of existence while I have continued to feature Mr Griffin on my website and radio show,” Mr Walker said.

An official complaint will be placed with the leadership election agent Geoff Dickens over the breaking of the election rules by the party’s head office.

Mr Brons’s election team hopes for a suitable resolution to this matter.

If the party’s head office continues to be in breach of its own unbiased election “rules,” an unfortunate precedent will have been set which might have serious implications for the course of the leadership election.

[Please note that we will not be publishing comments on this story as this website will not, despite the BNP head office's behaviour, be in breach of the election "rules." Thank you for your understanding. - Ed].