Liverpool Reforming BNP Goes From Strength to Strength.

First up on the agenda over the weekend was the continued Bring Our Boys Home Campaign. Teams were out in Maghull and Ormskirk town centre's and Steven Greenhalgh went back again to Orrel Park followed by a quick half hour in Walton Vale. The weather was not as good this weekend, but hey this is Britain and we do what we can when we can.

The Liverpool BNP reformers whilst supporting the essence of this campaign have not been using the BNP's own petition form but using the Yes to bringing our troop's home leaflet . It's inappropriate we feel for the public to sign the BNP petition when it may also be used for Party fundraising purposes also on the back of the Afghanistan military campaign.

Another reason for leafleting is that it is less intrusive than a member of the public offering their details on a very complicated BNP petition/form. As we have seen with the unfolding ugly scenes of lawlessness with other BNP groups getting attacked at table tops in City and Town centres by the UAF while the police stand by and do nothing, this is safer for the BNP member
and the member of the public.

Indeed this site believes that the unfolding ugly scenes in the Liverpool City centre this weekend with a table top petition held there, is counter productive which gives even more bad publicity to the Party, who's image is deeply tainted at the moment.

Although Wednesday night was a big disappointment with Steven Greenhalgh and stalwart Wirral Organiser David Bell getting refused entry to the monthly Liverpool BNP meeting, a meeting that Steven Greenhalgh had built up over the years, Thursday night was back to Nationalist business.

Ten members of the Liverpool BNP Reform team went over to the official Wirral BNP meeting chaired by David Bell who had been refused entry to the Liverpool meeting the night before. A strange fact is that now Peter Stafford Junior has been expelled from the Party he is free to enter any official BNP meeting, something he could not do whilst being a suspended member of it. Strange but true, but hey this is the BNP.

Peter Stafford Junior,second from the right, now able to attend official BNP meetings as he is no longer suspended but now expelled from the party!


Finally again back to Steven Greenhalgh. He has reported to this sites contributors that he has been a member of the BNP's elite Trafalgar Club for seven unbroken years. He recently received a letter from the Trafalgar Club Organisers that this years Trafalgar Club dinner will be in Brussels with a tour of the European Parliament, with the tour guide being none other than Nick Griffin himself.

He states that he will be allowed to take one guest with him on this "exciting trip" as the letter invite states. He has told this sites contributors that he has selected a shortlist of three names to choose from to accompany him to Brussels, the names being Antony Ward, Peter Squire and Peter Stafford Junior. He states that the three were and are still admirable servants to Liverpool BNP, the three of them once holding official positions for the party but all of whom were later suspended from the party, one now being expelled for supporting Eddy Butler's leadership challenge.

Steven Greenhalgh states that it will be a case of them drawing straws as the three of them deserve to go for past and current service to the BNP, although all the three currently now support for reform in the BNP.

More campaigning in Croxteth to come, also more updates and News to follow through the week.

All roads lead to Yorkshire

Ten Liverpool BNP activists in two cars last night all travelled to Yorkshire to see the latest leg of the Eddy Butler leadership election road show. One thing no one can say about Eddy Butler is is that he's not putting in the mileage travelling the length and breadth of Britain promoting his campaign.

One and a half hours up the M62 we eventually arrived at our destination. As we pulled into the venue car park and were getting out of the car Eddy Butler and his friends also arrived at the same time, which surely must have been a much longer journey for them travelling from London than us travelling from Liverpool.

The first thing that struck us all was how many people had already arrived and were waiting before we got there. The meeting proper chaired by Nick Cass started properly at about quarter to eight. For anyone who has never met Nick Cass before he is an absolute Giant of a man in stature and personality who must be about six foot five inches tall. He opened the meeting with a fifteen minute introduction on why he thinks a change in our leadership is urgent and necessary, whilst stating that Nick has done great things for the party but that we have now become stale under his leadership. He also explained to the audience why he accepted Eddy's invitation to be his running mate as BNP deputy Chairman of the party in this leadership election.

There were short follow up speeches presented by other people attending the road show, one from Liverpool's own Antony Ward which received a warm round of applause from the audience. Eddy Butler then gave his speech and his reasons and thoughts, just as Nick Cass did, why we urgently need change in the BNP leadership. After the speech there was a short break which then moved onto a question and answer session with many questions answered by Eddy Butler to his supporters and a minority of Nick Griffin supporters (in comparison are banning Eddy Butler supporters from BNP meetings) who in the spirit of democracy also turned up.

All in all a fantastic night had by all and new friends made with our BNP brothers in Yorkshire. There will be a YouTube video of the night which we will upload to this Merseyside BNP blog as soon as it becomes available.

Time for reflection

Being involved in Nationalist politics can sometimes be a brutal business, observing unfolding events on Merseyside over the last few months since the May elections makes me think no different. The British National Party is first and foremost a political party, some say it's a political movement, but at the end of the day it still comes down to being politics through the ballot box.

Its been well documented that there is a split in the Liverpool BNP team as regards nationalist direction at the moment, which in turn has resulted in the BNP suspensions of fine long serving activists Peter Stafford Jnr, Antony Ward and Peter Squire. The three suspended fully support the reform changes that are necessary and after talking to the three of them they feel that their support for the Eddy Butler leadership challenge is linked to their suspensions from the party, which is very disappointing.

This Merseyside BNP blog supports freedom of speech and "transparent democracy" and is certainly supporting Eddy Butler in his leadership challenge bid to take the party forward, just as Nick Griffin did before he was elected as MEP and was then thrust into European politics. Since the election of Nick Griffin as MEP there has developed a massive void or vacuum in the party as Branches and groups all over the country are devoid of their leader and Chairman turning up to their monthly meetings. Other factors also have seen the Party itself lose its cutting edge and certainly lose its appeal to the voters, this is also why the party needs a thorough revamp and the revamp must start from the top.

This site would also like to wish the new organising team for Liverpool BNP all the best (though a Liverpool Organiser living in Wales is a bit of strange one) and we do mean that as it certainly is a juggling act, which has to be performed with tact, diplomacy and consideration to other people who are after all on the same side.

Factionalism is bad but please bare it in mind that having an alternative opinion is healthy and not a crime, we are not drones or robot's we are free thinkers. Sometimes because of these internal disagreements that always occur from time to time one can lose the sight of where we are now and where we have to go for the future.

The events of Thursday just gone have been covered elsewhere on the Internet. I know the Organiser of that particular meeting came to Liverpool hoping to unite the Liverpool BNP team, but has in fact now made things worse. Other than that I do not want to revisit that evening again here, however we now have to move on and move on we shall.