Is the BNP losing it?

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Sunday, 31 May 2009, 17:31

It’s Sunday afternoon and I’ve finally got back down to London. It’s only a flying visit to do a media engagement tomorrow morning and then it’s back up north to help co-ordinate our D-Day events across the North West. I’ve been on the road for almost four weeks and I’ve not had a day off since before Easter so there is a bit of me that is looking forward to the election being over. But until Thursday night we will be working flat out to ensure the BNP fail in its attempts to get elected.

I really think the BNP is struggling. The fact that they haven’t gained from the expenses scandal owes much to our media operation and the millions of newspapers and leaflets that are being distributed around the country. Yesterday, in Sandwell, over 80 people delivered 20,000 newspapers and leaflets to local homes. Another 10,000 went out in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Today, a further 10,000 went out in Dudley. As I was travelling back to London our film man got a call from his mother to say that she had just received a HOPE not hate leaflet through her door. It is little stories like these that help me through these long days.

I also think the pressure is having an impact on the BNP. Their latest attack on the Church of England is stupid beyond belief. If the Jesus would vote BNP billboard wasn’t bad enough they have now produced a leaflet accusing the Archbishops of Canterbury of being Judas. As soon as I heard about this leaflet last night I got straight on the phone to a couple of contacts in the Church who in turn relayed it to the appropriate authorities. This morning, as dozens of vicars and priests were making anti-BNP sermons to their congregations, one Reverand went one stage further. Deptford’s Rev Paul Butler ripped up a copy of the leaflet in his church and immediately recruited several people to come and help him leaflet on Tuesday.