British National Party leader Nick Griffin is battling for his political future amid growing disquiet over his leadership, a disastrous electoral campaign and the overall running of the party. This comes after the BNP spectacularly failed in its bid to win control of Barking & Dagenham council, lost all but two of the 28 council wards it was defending and was humiliated in Stoke-on-Trent, a city recently described by Griffin as it’s “jewel in the crown”.

It had been an awful election campaign for the BNP leader. His former right-hand man Mark Collett had been arrested for threatening to kill him, the party’s website went down in the last few days of the campaign after the webmaster walked out, the party is being taken to court by the multinational company Unilever following the childish use of a Marmite jar on a version of its party political broadcast and its London organiser has been arrested for affray after being filmed kicking an Asian youth in the head.

He also had to face a far more sophisticated and determined opposition.

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