BRAMLEY ELECTION AND THE SADNESS OF
SPLIT
VOTES
From Eddy Morrison
BPP Candidate
Bramley/Stanningley Ward Leeds
Council Election May 4th 2006
Nominations closed yesterday for this series of elections and we had
our papers in well on time. This morning I talked to the Elections
Officer only to be told that apart from Labour/Tory/Lib-Dems , the BNP
are standing a lady candidate.
The BNP have stood in Bramley/Stanningley before - but we had been told
that due to ill-health their past candidate was not standing. We
announced our contesting the seat in November of last year and pointed
out that with 32 seats to contest and the BPP only standing one then
surely Bramley/Stanningley could have been left to the BPP.
This is not to be and we now face a split in the patriotic vote in the
ward. The BNP have no monopoly on elections - then again neither have
we. We will continue our rolling campaign and our main hope is to
damage the Labour vote as much as possible. The BPP policies appeal
much more to ex-Labour and current Labour voters than Marxist New
Labour's do!
We are not attacking the BNP for standing but with so many wards in
Leeds going uncontested, another ward could have been chosen and the
electorate left without the confusion of a White Nationalist candidate
and a BNP candidate.
Well that's politics for you! On a brighter note our comrades in the
England First Party are standing two seats in Blackburn where the BNP
have decided not to stand even though last year, the BNP standing
stopped Mark Cotterill, a BPP member and leader of the EFP from getting
a seat. This year we think Mark WILL get elected.
All the help we can get - financial and material - especially campaign
workers will be greatly appreciated.
Eddy
Morrison
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