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Loyal supporters a tribute to the good work done by the leader of the British National Party
Nick Griffin MEP
Candidate Statement of Andrew Brons MEP
Our party urgently needs unity and new political direction.
We have been damaged by feuds, declining membership, the disintegration of many branches, financial incompetence and increasing political irrelevance. Our Chairman has resorted to lies and smears to defend his position.
Our newspaper has become a factional rag and our magazine and website have become mediocrities.
The Chairman has used members’ proxies to vote himself, if re-elected, a four year term. That possibility could be fatal, with the Chairman (a former bankrupt) jointly facing a court order for £45,000 costs that could destroy him and could reflect badly on the Party.
The Chairman micro-manages the party and demonstrates appalling judgement in his statements and appointees. A leader, who calls for the Prime Minister to be hanged and for boats containing illegal immigrants to be sunk, presents our party as insanely extreme. The Chairman, like the dictator of a banana republic, suspends members after they attend meetings of his critics.
Politics is about image. If our image is appalling, our votes will be appalling. Polls indicate that 50% of the electorate wants a nationalist party but our votes and candidates are in decline. UKIP outvotes us in our strongholds. We can improve our image by expressing ourselves in temperate language and ensuring that our statements are accurate and truthful.
We need to win back our activists who have become dispirited and inactive. We must take positive measures to ensure we retain our elected seats and win more.
We need new, exciting literature that imparts essential ideology and appeals to the broad mass of voters.
Externally, I will focus our party on the key issues of our time: the demographic replacement and ethnic cleansing of our people, the recession, the threat posed by the EU and Britain’s disastrous foreign and economic policies.
Internally, a good leader should act with integrity, observe the highest ethical standards and delegate tasks and responsibilities to those best qualified to tackle them. I shall also focus on seven areas:
Staff need to be appointed by a professional personnel committee. Ill-judged and highly unpopular appointments by the current Chairman have caused enormous division. Some of his appointments are not even Nationalists and his close advisor stood candidates against our party;
We need a clear division between the political and the administrative sides of the organisation. The latter should be overseen by an experienced and able professional.
The retention and expansion of the party’s democratisation. The four year term for the Party Leader must go.
A halt to the party’s disciplinary and security departments being used to persecute legitimate critics. We should create a culture where differences are accepted, not denounced;
Full financial transparency and an inquiry into the incompetence that crippled the party with debts of £580,000, many still unpaid;
The full use of our best and most talented members. Appointments and promotion must be based on merit and not sycophancy.
The establishment of regional training schemes and greater autonomy for the regions and branches.
Wed, 06/07/2011 - 21:40 | News Team 