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Urgent Tasks for the BNP Leadership

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

By Andrew Brons MEP.

The current Chairman, Nick Griffin won in the leadership by a knife edge majority of nine votes, against 70% of the membership who voted for his rival (30%) and/or abstained (40%).

Both candidates conceded during the campaign that a winning candidate with a small majority would not be able to take a ‘winner takes all’ approach to the result.

The current Chairman did not consider attendance at the leadership poll to be an important priority and has been absent from the country since then, leaving the Party under the control of multi-racialist and National Liberal Party member, Patrick Harrington.

There are three priorities for the current Chairman:

1. He must take steps to stop the haemorrhage of members – particularly activists and leading members, following the election result. He pledged to try to re-build the activist base but he is allowing the membership and its activist base to shrink further.

2. He must tell the membership the full truth about the Party’s debts. During the leadership campaign, he was caught out telling the membership lie after lie about the Party’s debts. Now is the time for him to admit to those lies and to tell the whole truth.

3. He must keep non-members, like Patrick Harrington, away from British National Party decisions.

It was revealed during the leadership campaign that Patrick Harrington had drawn up the anti-democratic proposal that was presented to the General Members’ Meeting in June, instead of the Arthur Kemp proposal that was overwhelmingly passed at the Annual Conference in December.

Harrington was put in charge of the Griffin Team’s vilest smears against his rival in the election. Harrington is consulted by our current Chairman about every difficult decision, either by telephone or by e-mail. Harrington has been left in charge of the Party during his absence abroad.