Now, here’s an interesting one. Nick Griffin, MEP for the north-west, is going to run for Parliament in London, against Margaret Hodge in Barking. I was rather under the impression that Richard Barnbrook was going to be the BNP’s candidate there – he certainly seems to think so.

Glad to see that Griffin has such commitment to his constituents that he is already looking for another job, and in another part of the country, and that he has such confidence in Barnbrook that he won’t let him run. One wonders if the BNP are doubtful about being able to win a by-election for the GLA, or have realised that Barnbrook is a pillock.

Sadly, I don’t think any of these are true. Nick Griffin is the BNP member with the highest (and probably least bad) national profile. He is logically their best candidate for Parliament, and presumably Barking is the place where they stand the best chance of winning.

This is, though, a case of putting a lot of their eggs in one basket; it will be hard for Griffin to run again in the NE (or anywhere else) as his track record is one of running away. There already seem to be some fractures around the BNP; a failure to achieve representation at Westminster at this point in time might make life very difficult for Griffin. And we can point out that he’s likely to sod off somewhere else when it suits him.

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Categories: BNP, London, Politics.
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