And there he was - gone!

Where is our Chairman?

Posted by admin, on 2 August, 2011, to Andrew Brons' BNP Ideas web site

By Hogarth.

Last Monday the Chairman was elected to a fresh term of four years, by merely nine votes. He did not bother to attend the count, perhaps in case he lost.

To obtain his mandate of merely nine votes, his team broke his own rules:

1. A 50 point email circular was issued, attacking Mr Brons, utilising the party’s email address lists.

2. Regional Organisers or their officials despatched email circulars to their memberships, imploring members to support Nick Griffin.

Had the Chairman been re-elected with a majority of several hundred votes, it could have been argued that these two clear breaches of the rules would have been insufficient to alter an assured victory for Nick Griffin.

These two actions, however, were designed to influence the vote, which is why they were sanctioned. Had merely five members voted for Mr Brons instead of Mr Griffin, Mr Brons would have been elected with a majority of one vote.

There are grounds for the Returning Officer, who is already carrying out routine enquiries, to declare the result null and void on account of these breaches in the rules and to re-issue fresh ballot papers in a new election.

This would almost certainly be the decision of any Court, given the circumstances.

Meanwhile, the Chairman has sent a long and rambling letter to his runner-up, Andrew Brons, which underlines the Chairman’s micro-management of the Party.

One of the points of Mr Brons’ election platform was the futility and damage wrought by micro-management.

Alas, Mr Griffin has no expertise as a manager outside the political realm. In fact, he has done very little outside the political realm, although he has accomplished one bankruptcy.

He has very nearly brought his own party to the point of bankruptcy – if such is possible for an unincorporated association.

Once again, the accounts are late, which will invite a fine from the Electoral Commission.

That fine represents the money of hard-pressed donors, which the Chairman enjoys tapping for their hard earned wages and pensions.

We were told, during the campaign, that the accounts were now properly overseen and administered.

Clearly, the Chairman’s appointees, Clive Jefferson and Jennifer Matthys have some explaining to do.

More bizarre, however, is the absence of the Chairman. He has narrowly won the slenderest of victories but he has disappeared – presumably on holiday – when his party is in utter chaos, with morale plumbing fresh lows.

His website is becoming a joke and features illiteracy.

His party is split.

He faces numerous challenges in Court.

His members are resigning or refusing to donate. Others refuse to participate in any political activity. The BBC are rumoured to be preparing an expose of his tenure of the party.

Damaging copies of Trafalgar Club bank statements have been issued, denoting large cash drawings.

Mr Brons’ voters are finding new reasons to depart, despite the former’s earnest representations that they remain.

In fact, it is speculated that the Chairman would prefer his detractors to depart. That way, the party will contract into a micro unit of unelectable sycophants plus some delinquents.

What few councillors we retain are fast departing the party.

In fact, the party is descending downhill so fast that it will soon be beneath where it was when he took it over in 1999. What a record! What sheer incompetence!

Instead of departing on holiday amidst such ruin and destruction, the Chairman should be in the UK, rapidly mending and building bridges.

He should be in earnest negotiations with Mr Brons’s team to act on their criticisms of his tenure and implement their ideas.

In particular, as the first stage in the building of those bridges, Mr Griffin should relieve the party of the services of the non-member, Pat Harrington, who has stood ethnic candidates against our Party.

That demand, which appeared on this website several days ago, remains unanswered.

He has done none of the things we requested. There have been no meetings with Mr Brons or his supporters, no discussions and only the despatch of a rambling, patronising letter to Mr Brons.

We are reminded of the late Enoch Powell’s reflection: “All political careers end in failure.” As someone else once remarked: “How great the arrogance before the fall.”

The tragedy here is that the Chairman is likely to bring the entire party down with him and, with this, the one remaining avenue for the British people to save the nation. What a record — which will be long remembered by frustrated activists of the nationalist cause.

10 Responses to " Where is our Chairman? "

TheBNPrenaissance says:

August 2, 2011 at 10:13 am

Don’t go down with the ship Andrew. A new intelligent nationalist movement is needed and wanted. Some have said we don’t have time to form a new party but we have even less time to continue with a moribund party.

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FedUp says:

August 2, 2011 at 10:25 am

It is clear that the Chairman has no intentions of building bridges or even trying to maintain the status quo, his “my way or the highway” statement on the main website last week confirmed that.

You must keep up the pressure, insist that your questions and issues regarding the leadership challenge are tackled and answered.

Unfortunately, this is the major reason that the “Way Forward” conferences are a waste of time. We would all love to do that, but when you have a brick wall in front of you, namely the Chairman and his cohorts, any plans to move forward are futile and will be scuppered at the earliest opportunity.

Even though it has been made perfectly clear that the conferences are open to any and all members, the smears have already started that they are factional, simply because it is Andrew who is arranging them.

I would be willing to put money on the fact that any member who dares attend them and who isn’t in the “inner circle” or on the “right side” will find that their presence will be used as a reason for suspension or expulsion as we already know it has been in the past.

What an absolute farce this party has become when we find ourselves, yet again, waiting in limbo, hoping and praying that the people who need to, will see sense and let it be put in the hands of people who can and genuinely want to make a difference.

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Roger Bennett says:

August 2, 2011 at 10:39 am

I agree with every word of this article. From the high success of June 2009 to the virtual collapse of all we worked for in less than 2 years is an outrage. The sole responsibility lies with Mr Griffin, his crass incompetence, suspending, sacking and expelling those who disagreed with him and for surrounding himself with talentless Yes men.

The Chairman is sinking into a deeper and deeper pit of trouble by the day and he will not lie his way out it. He has brought the BNP to a low we could not have imagined. It is a lucky for Mr Griffin he lives in a tolerant democracy as in many other countries he would be shot.

The way forward is not with the BNP and it’s discredited gang who are trying, and failing, to lead it. The way forward is to support Mr Brons, to form a new and democratic party, with a fair and understandable constitution. With all officers, at every level elected, not appointed and with access to party accounts by the members to ensure fair and true accounting.

The troubles soley caused by the mismanagement of the Griffin firm are yet to be answered. Matters will only worsen for Mr Griffin as time goes on and in the not too distant future.

Those of us who value our Nationalist dream must unite into an organisation, with respectability, talent and demonstrating honesty that shows we value democracy in all our dealings. A new party that will gain the confidence of the electorate a party worthy of that confidence. We have the talent within our ranks, that talent must be put to clear and efficient goals striving to achieving those goals with enthusiasm and determination. To quote Emerson

‘ Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm’

It can be done, in fact for the benefit of our children and grandchildren, it must be done. It is up to us, to do it and do it now.

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mrbacon says:

August 2, 2011 at 11:12 am

His time must be taken up with posing for photo opportunities to appear on the main site?

“In fact, it is speculated that the Chairman would prefer his detractors to depart. That way, the party will contract into a micro unit of unelectable sycophants plus some delinquents.”

A very accurate point I suspect. Nicks tenuous position makes a purge of opponents/those who dare to question a very risky move on his part, one doubts his chairmanship could withstand the fallout such a move would bring.

If he is determined to remain in place and listen to none of the legitimate concerns of the members, as it very much seems he is, then his best option is to sit tight, say nothing, watch as any who might oppose him leave, and then he’ll be left with just sycophants and people who have not a clue what is going on.

Such would be a disaster for nationalism and for *our* party, but for a leader who appears to value remaining leader at any cost above that, it could be considered a success. After enough ‘opponents’ leave, then the purges of any dissenters who remain can begin.

One doubts his absence or silence is a coincidence at any rate, it’s quite probably a risky – but calculated – move, perhaps the only viable move he has left now (other than compromise and bridge building).

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S says:

August 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm

I can confirm from stats. that the B.B.C. are researching into Griffin and the accounts.

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Revd Robert West says:

August 2, 2011 at 5:26 pm

The art of good leadership – and this goes for any party or organisation, or church – is delegation; so I hope that this input is not regarded as being in any way partisan or slanted. Leaders must delegate and then stand-back, otherwise they will undermine their own delegation and their organistation will never grow on the back of matured delegation: we will all remain children. I hope this lesson can be learnt: we all need to learn it to some extent.

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Caractacus says:

August 2, 2011 at 5:49 pm

Yes, Yes, Yes, Come on Geof lets have a PROPER and FAIR election. Declare the farce we have just endured as ‘contaminated and therefore void.

Now more ‘facts and truth’ is known to more members we could have an election very quickly. Of course NG would not now stand a cat in hells chance of winning just as he did not really ‘win’ the recent election.

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Peter Mills says:

August 2, 2011 at 6:40 pm

This is a very truthful, relevant and factual article. Under Griffin, the BNP has plunged down a very slippery spiral slide from being a “lean mean political campaigning machine” to a present position of being nothing more than a Del Boy con trick paying its management by raiding the pockets of those poor misguided patriots who still believe it represents the ideals and values of a legitimate Nationalist cause.

Factually, Nick Griffin could not have done a better job of destroying the credibility, public image, political progress and patriotic integrity of the British National Party if he had been a trained subversive secretly employed by the government specifically to destroy the BNP from within. Indeed, there are many who suspect that this is actually the case, and it is hardly surprising.

Griffin has not only guaranteed the collapse of the BNP as a legitimate political party – in so doing, he has brought the very words “British” and “Nationalist” into such thorough disrepute that the genuine Nationalist cause is likely to be tarnished for a generation by his monumentally abysmal antics. From the time of his appearance on last year’s “Question Time”, he has been perceived by the general public as a gurning clown. In the political field, in both general and council elections, he has led the BNP in a triumphant march over a cliff into complete oblivion. The Nationalist cause needs a senior statesman with gravitas, acumen and underlying honesty. Instead, in Griffin, it has had Stan Laurel. He only needs a bowler hat to make the image perfect. Except that Stan Laurel, although a clown, was at least an honest and entertaining clown who was loved by the public.

There can no longer be any possible doubt that, although statistics show that a huge percentage of the British population agrees with many Nationalist policies, the names “BNP” and “British National Party” have been rendered thoroughly toxic to the electorate directly because of Griffin’s hands being on the steering wheel. The Titanic was in safer hands.

There is, unquestionably, no future for the BNP. Griffin has seen to that. The guillotine will fall before the end of this year. The single possibility that might now begin the hard task of saving our beloved country from the hideous results of multiculturalism, political correctness and the European sell-out of traitors, is the establishment of a brand new Nationalist political party which will carry with it none of Griffin’s corrupt and inept baggage, yet will provide all British Nationalists with the opportunity to support and join a single, unfragmented, honest, altruistic, increasingly powerful and up-market political organization which can, once more after a long reprieve, make the organised political enemies of the British quake in their boots and approach general and council elections with trepidation, doubt and fear in their hearts. This is what the BNP should have been. Griffin sank it.

There is only one person in the country who can accomplish this vital political about-turn towards the sunrise of future success. His name is Andrew Brons.

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Jim Diggory says:

August 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm

Let’s get real – Nick Griffin and his people may well have tricked and cheated their way to a 9 vote majority win – but do we really want to lumber Andrew Brons with a party teetering on the brink of destruction? Is it fair that Andrew Brons should inherit, as Party Chairman, all the financial, political and staffing dross being the residue of the Griffin years? I say give Andrew a break – utilise his talents in a positive way in forming a new party and leave Griffin to fester over the rotting dungheap that will be left, a dunghill of his own creation.

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Advocatus Diaboli says:

August 2, 2011 at 10:50 pm

Brilliant post by Jim Diggory! Well said, that man