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| Friday, 11 March 2005 Source: Searchlight

The British National Party is nothing but imaginative in the way it tries to turn an election flop into a victory.

A by-election for two councillors in the Wingate ward of Easington District Council in Durham on 11 March saw Dave Walton of the BNP as the sole opponent to two Labour candidates. Naturally he lost by a substantial margin, with a mere 181 votes. After a rather convoluted mathematical explanation that must have left 100% of BNP members bemused, the BNP's northeast correspondent writing on the party website announced that the BNP vote represented a 30% increase on 2003 when the party last contested the ward.

Excitedly he concluded, "The 30% increase in the BNP's share of the vote is proving that only the BNP is capable of providing an alternative for the voters of this area of

Co. Durham".