The BNP’s Quiet Revolution has been built on firm foundations.
By Martin Wingfield ⋅
AT THE local elections last year, the British National Party made an overall gain of just one council seat. Our opponents and the media were ecstatic over this and were queuing up to write off our whole campaign as a failure, just because we didn’t have any headline-grabbing results.
Last May, the British National Party vote held-up in the face of a huge anti-BNP campaign run by the Labour Party and the trade union bosses that it has in its pocket, as well as the usual hostile media. It was a commendable performance and set the Party fair for a series of significantly higher local election results across the country over the next 12 months, a shift in public support towards the BNP that has become known as our Quiet Revolution.
The British National Party’s steady progress towards becoming a mainstream political party has been built on firm foundations. Apart from that incredible night in Barking and Dagenham two years ago, there have been few eye-catching headlines and although our steps forward have been small and steady, they have been made when the Party has been ready to take them and as a result of the groundwork done by local activists within their communities. It’s called our ‘Quiet Revolution’ because the 10% to 20% votes consistently polled in these local elections, although considerable achievements in themselves, are not spectacular so fall under the media’s radar.The United Kingdom Independence Party, on the other hand, was catapulted into the headlines by publicity guru Max Clifford, and its ’success’ was not built on the work of its activists at local level but by television and newspaper headlines for a couple of weeks just before voting took place for the European Elections in June 2004. UKIP’s ‘breakthrough’ came thanks to favourable media coverage and when that exposure stopped, the bubble burst and because it didn’t have any firm foundations in local communities built by actual political campaigning at grass roots level – it has now virtually disappeared from view.
Today, people will be voting on a range of political issues that directly affect them. Whether they will be voting for the BNP will solely depend on whether we have got our message across to them through our activists on the doorstep. Every single media outlet, without exception, has ceaselessly promoted the anti-BNP campaign. The column inches in the newspapers attacking the BNP over the past couple of weeks probably runs into miles! So any success that we might achieve in these elections will only come from the hard work of our activists and the leaflets, broadcasts and Internet coverage that has been produced and generated by the Party itself.
For the British National Party these local elections have already been a stunning success. Over one thousand new members since the start of the campaign and before a single vote has even been counted. Enquiries have come from thousands more seeking to join and help the BNP, and a dozen new councillors have already been elected unopposed, albeit at town and parish level. All this is another small but sure-footed step along the path to more political influence.
When the results come through tonight and tomorrow, this is what our members and everyone who supports and votes for the British National Party must have in their minds. We have already won, we don’t need to wait for the media or the establishment’s political pundits to tell us what we have achieved.
Our Quiet Revolution is ongoing and it is built on having the right political policies that are being promoted to the public by dedicated teams of BNP campaigners across the country. Our Quiet Revolution is built on firm foundations, not media headlines.
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