The Tory-supporting Sunday Express has broken ranks with the rest of the controlled media and has honestly reported on the rising tide of support for the British National Party, today publishing a poll which claimed that the BNP would win the parliamentary seat of Communities Minister Hazel Blears if an election were held.
Completely refuting other controlled media claims of the BNP polling “one percent” of the vote, the Sunday Express conducted its own poll in Salford, seat of Ms Blears, and found that the BNP picked up 38.4 percent support. The other parties polled as follows, according to the newspaper: Labour 19.2 percent; Tories 13.4 percent; Liberal Democrats 10.7 percent; Greens and UKIP 7.1 percent each.
This result, says that newspaper, means that “Nick Griffin is on course to win a seat in the European Parliament next month on the back of a tidal wave of public anger over MPs’ expenses.”
The newspaper goes on to say that the BNP is one of the “main beneficiaries of public disgust with the political establishment. The survey of 500 voters showed that Ms Blears would lose her seat because of revelations that she claimed thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on three homes in a single year.
“She also used a legal dodge to avoid paying more than £13,000 in capital gains tax, which she has offered to repay.”
The paper says that “if the result is repeated across the North-West in next month’s European Parliament elections Mr Griffin will be elected to Brussels.”
In his reaction to the report, Mr Griffin, talking to BNP News from Cumbria where he is currently campaigning, said that he was not surprised.
“All our canvass returns show that we are doing very well in all areas around the country. In fact, Salford is one of our weaker areas, which makes the Sunday Express article all the more interesting.”
Mr Griffin said that that he was yesterday campaigning in several towns along the Cumbrian coast, and that the public is “if anything more in our favour than what the Express says.”
He also noted that almost all the old party activists are on strike, refusing to come out and canvass because their Westminster leaders have so utterly shamed them with the expenses scandal.
The Sunday Express opinion that the BNP will be the main beneficiary of the current political fallout was echoed today in an article in the Sunday edition of The Scotsman in Edinburgh. Admitting that Mr Griffin correctly predicted “homegrown Islamic terrorists” and that an “aftershock from a cataclysmic implosion of American capitalism would ripple through the world like a financial tsunami, spreading hardship into every corner of the globe,” The Scotsman goes on to say that the expenses scandal, which it describes as a “profound” domestic “crisis”, has propelled the BNP to “centre stage in the forthcoming local and Euro elections.”
Peppering its article with the usual ant-BNP hatred, The Scotsman goes on to say that the “confluence of the war on terror, the credit crunch and the public's incandescent rage at the expenses scandal which has debased parliament has produced a perfect storm” for the party.
The Scotsman article then confirmed that on the streets of Carlisle, where its reporter accompanied Mr Griffin recently while he was campaigning, “roughly 80 percent of people took their fliers, with a quarter of them stopping to talk. Each of the voters who engaged with Griffin said afterwards that they were actively contemplating voting for him,” said The Scotsman.
Quoting some of the reactions, The Scotsman said that the reasons people gave for supporting the BNP varied. “My interest stems from the fact that the indigenous people of this country are treated far worse than anyone else," that paper quoted a pensioner identified as Eileen. “I don't have anything against anyone of a different colour or creed but charity begins at home. It's ridiculous that people are coming here and sponging off our social services, and getting things ahead of people who've worked hard all their lives. I think it's got to stop. I've had enough.
"The BNP are the party that will best represent me; I don't want to be European, I'm proud to be British and what it stands for. Nobody asked me if I wanted to be multicultural and I don't want to be. We're not even consulted; we're just expected to take what's given. The BNP's the only party that's going to keep us British and I know a lot of people who think that way too. I don't think they'll win here but I think it'll be close. The British people have completely lost faith in the main parties," The Scotsman article continued.
“Even angrier was James, a married freight train driver in his thirties whose sense of dislocation from the political classes was palpable. ‘I'm interested in the BNP because they're upsetting people who've been upsetting me for a bloody long time and because they're outside the mainstream,’ he said. `I've long held views about politicians which have recently become quite fashionable; it's like the whole nation's woken up. That's why I am, for the first time, considering voting for the BNP.’
“Pensioner Linda Smith is another convert. ‘The government have really shown their true colours; I felt the same even before the expenses because they're all busy doing for themselves,’ she says. `This will be my first time voting for the BNP; I'm usually a Conservative voter. Lots of my friends are going to vote for them and I think they'll do very, very well’,” reported The Scotsman.
