You are reading the first ever BNP blog from Britain’s second city – the eastern part of which to be precise. It is here that the Party has established itself as part of the community since 2001 when the first East Birmingham BNP group was launched. Since then we have developed nationalist strongholds across the unoccupied territories of the eastern outer circle and last year we were re-launched in our right after almost four years under the city-wide branch banner. This re-organisation was due to massive growth throughout the city and we are proud to continue the good work alongside our colleagues in both the north and south Birmingham groups.
Here in the east of the city we have consistently set the benchmark for the party in Brum. In the 2004 local elections Labour candidates were beaten by the Birmingham BNP for the first time ever – and six times over no less. All three Labour candidates in Sheldon were beaten as were all three Labour candidates in Stechford & Yardley (one of which was one Liam Byrne who later went on to become a Home Office minister). He was elected in the 2005 general election that saw another Birmingham record set in the East, twice over this time. Yardley constituency recorded the largest ever BNP vote in a parliamentary election and along with neighbouring Hodge Hill was the first time the party had ever held deposits in the second city. The following year we recorded the largest ever share of the vote, this time in Shard End ward, and that ward remains the BNP’s strongest in Brum to this day, although we freely admit we were hoping for better things in Shard End this time round. And that’s where we differ from the other parties – if you want to hear spin and lies the BNP is not the party for you. We fully accept that on May 3rd we performed poorly across the city. In our target wards, such as Shard End, hard work by dedicated party activists only held our vote and those wards where we did not campaign our vote dipped significantly. For this failure the BNP apologises unreservedly to the people of Birmingham, because of our failure the native population will not be represented on the city council for another year and by the time we have a chance to make amends they will have taken another step towards becoming an ethnic minority in their own city. We do not regard this as acceptable.
Our poor performance in May 2007 could be put down to a number of reasons, the general inexperience of our campaign team is certainly one. Many of our activists were members who had joined up since the previous election and were new to the game. It was also the first time the Party had been able to launch multiple campaigns campaign in specific target wards. In years gone by the membership was smaller and consequently the Party‘s resources were spread much thinner. Our activists and members are also ordinary working people with not much free time on their hands. In addition we do not have the decades of experience to call on like the Lib-Lab-Con alliance party. While we tried to campaign on local issues, the Labour candidate called in very possibly illegal third party groups like the UAF, Searchlight and Unison to launch their trademark smears against us. We believed that the general perception of the BNP was not that of a racist or ‘Nazi’ organisation, perhaps we were wrong. One thing we are pretty sure of though is that the majority of native Brummies (and indeed a growing number of certain ethnic minority groups) agree with the bulk of our policies, it is merely a sad reflection of today’s democracy that three out of four people just do not vote! We also lacked the finance to produce high quality election material and could not deliver the full colour glossy leaflets that the Labour Party did. And whilst we poured many thousands of leaflets into our wards our opponents relied on telephone canvassing and this appears to have been extremely effective. God only knows what was said by the Labour telecanvassing teams to the electorate. We know of one case elsewhere in the country where the Labour Party told voters they could not vote BNP as there was not a BNP candidate, this in a ward with existing BNP councillors. By and large, Lib-Lab-Con candidates and activists rarely entered the wards they were contesting. As such they were spared the unpleasant reality of what their policies had created in areas such as Bromford and Kitts Green. They did not care for nor bother meeting the people who they have betrayed for decades in person. We have learnt from the recent election, from both our mistakes and theirs, and we are confident that we will do better next time.
Over the coming months we in East Birmingham will seek to mobilise the nationalist community into an effective support mechanism for our front-line activists. In part the aim of this blog is to aid that effort by establishing contact with the increasing number of people who have access to the net and support the cause of the British people and nation. If you would like to help in our fight against the corruption, incompetence and arrogance of our ruling elite there are many roles which you can play. We are acutely aware that the persecution of the BNP by the government and its allies can make outspoken support a costly act of defiance. However, you can still make a real contribution to the campaign without thrusting yourself into the limelight, all you need is a few spare hours of your time each month so please feel free to contact the party either through our website (www.bnp.org.uk) or directly through this blog. You don’t really know how a little work can make a massive difference until you try. We believe as a result of our experiences this year that our opponents are not the invincible force they would have you believe. They have no answers to our arguments which is why they refuse to debate will our representatives on the TV or on the streets. Sooner or later we will succeed in getting the real message of the BNP out to the hard pushed British taxpayers and families and when we do the game is up for the bankrupt politicians which govern us today.In the May 2007 elections our opponents were forced to rely on the slurs of other people to keep us at bay, but next year, with the help of the decent patriotic people of Birmingham helping out, such lies will not be enough to save them. That’s bad news for the Lib-Lab-Con one-part alliance because lying is all they know …
