Going down slowly

Andrew Brons remains on the bridge

Reports of My Resignation Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Andrew Brons MEP

Posted by admin02, on 8 February, 2012, to the BNP Ideas web site

My only motive for writing is to save Brother Leader from some of the confusion that seems to be bothering him.

I have not left the Party, nor established a rival political party which has since been ‘still born’. I have repeatedly and consistently explained to people who have urged me to form a new political party that break-away parties never succeed while the parent party is still seen to be alive.

Indeed, I have quoted examples of well-established break-away parties, with prominent and talented personnel, that have nevertheless failed.

Perhaps I should explain that stillbirth cannot precede conception.

The British National Party claims still to have between 3,000 and 4,000 members, including 1,000 life members—from a total of 14,500 members in 2010.

However, the 2,000 non-life members include many members whose membership expired at the end of 2011 and are in their three months' ‘period of grace’ before they cease to be members on 31st March 2012.

We have already lost 80% of our membership and we have prospects of losing more in the next month and a half. Furthermore, nearly all of the 1,000 plus activists have left the Party or stopped being active.

How is the Party surviving? Continued registration with the Electoral Commission does not cost money. Brother Leader has his Euro-staff but we do not have to dwell on them.

It is also rumoured that a sizeable bequest left to fund the development of the Party will, instead, be used to enable Brother Leader and his chums to maintain a pretence that the BNP – a Party without activists – is still in business. Indeed its objective is no longer to thrive but to prevent a rival from emerging.

In the words of BL’s ventriloquist:

“No other Nationalist party can make any progress while the BNP survives. This is because the BNP is associated in the public mind with the cause and vice versa. It is not necessary for the BNP to be large or even viable. It only has to be there in some shape or form.”

Brother leader has also said my election was a waste and that I was not fulfilling my role. I am still sitting as a British National Party MEP and speaking in both the Parliament and in my committees. I am sending letters and press statements to newspapers and the broadcasting media to complain about anti-BNP smears and to advance our message.

However, when the BNP disappears from public view as it inevitably will, there will have to be a replacement.

My preference would be for the replacement to inherit the name but I suspect that BL and his ventriloquist intend to take that household name to the grave with them. There are some who would say that the name is toxic but it still attracts more votes than those who would replace it.

Replacement parties might well be less hated than the BNP but they are also less recognised and less well-supported.