Something that should concern all the smaller political parties in Scotland has been reported in the press, in a wholly fascistic move some MSP’s have suggested the electoral system for Holyrood should be changed to stop the BNP winning a seat on the top up list.
The top up system was introduced to compensate parties that polled perhaps 20% of votes in constituencies but failed to win first past the post seats. This is democracy in action, which both the Greens and the far left have benefited from in the past. However now that the BNP are in reach of winning a seat the main parties want to change it!
The desperation of these anti democratic forces is staggering, people it would seem can vote for who they like as long as it suits the Lab/SNP/Con tri-party, this can not be tolerated and must be challenged.
The BNP is a completely legal registered political party that has won a mandate from one million people, almost 30,000 here in Scotland voted BNP in the Euros, we beat the Lib-Dems, Greens and all the far left parties in Glasgow recently, we have the absolute right to represent these people, as they have the absolute right to vote for us, do not let them take away this freedom, contact your elected representatives and express your disgust with the Holyrood fascists.

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We’re glad to report that the British National Party has pulled off our best-ever result in a parliamentary election in Scotland, demonstrating just how far we have come in a very short time and the extent to which the party is now perceived as a credible, mainstream contender by increasing numbers of voters.

There was no surprise about the top two positions at the Glasgow North East by-election on Thursday 12 November 2009, but the entire story of the contest was the battle for third place.

For our party to even be fighting over third place at this early stage in our Scottish growth is astonishing. Three years ago we wouldn’t even have placed in the top six. Now we’re fighting for third. It just demonstrates the potential out there.

For our readers in England, remember that this result is even more remarkable given that we have four, not three, Westminster parties up here.

When we consider what we were up against, we really have done remarkably well.

Let’s reconsider our seven stated aims at this by-election, which we published in our article on the BNP website on 9th November, here.

Our first aim, to beat all the extreme left-wing parties was achieved, in spades. In fact, we beat the combined vote of Solidarity, SSP and Socialist Labour, added together. So, aim achieved.

The second aim, to get in the top six. Achieved.

The third aim, to beat one of the following: the Greens, Conservatives or the Lib Dems, who on past outings have come above us. Well, we tanked the Greens, and that is so necessary if we are to stand a chance of getting our candidate elected on the Holyrood PR ballot in 2011 or more probably 2015. Achieved.

The fourth aim, to come in the top five. Achieved.

The fifth aim, to beat any two of the Greens, Conservatives or Liberal Democrats. Well, we also tanked the Lib Dems. Achieved.

We said that if we achieved any one of our seven aims then we would have done extremely well in the first by-election that the BNP has ever contested in Scotland.

Fact is, we achieved five of our seven aims, failing only to save our deposit (by 17 votes) and come third, which would have needed an additional 63 votes.

So we came fourth, but consider what we are up against.

The Conservative Party is a multi-million pound machine. It has virtually unlimited access to finance from the City. We had access to exactly £890.34 which we raised at our fundraiser on 27th October.

The Conservative Party has a big team of well-paid, full-time employees in Scotland who are dedicated full-time to winning elections for their party. We had a small band of hard-pressed men and women, squeezing in activism when they could get time off their work.

And then there is the full-spectrum dominance of the Conservative Party, and the other Westminster parties, on our national mass media. We can’t escape seeing them or listening to them in the papers, the TV and the radio, every day, 24/7/365. Yet they have the cheek to complain because Question Time hosted Nick Griffin … once.

Yet still we pushed the Tories to the wire. Indeed, the entire story of last night’s election on TV was whether we were going to take third place from them or not.

Furthermore, all the four Westminster parties had privileged access to the national mass media. They were invited onto radio hustings. We weren’t. They were in the Scottish press every day. We weren’t. They received invites to all the hustings meetings in the constituency. We received not one.

Yet still we tanked the Lib Dems, taking over twice its vote.

We’ve also learned many valuable lessons in this campaign. These lessons are being recorded right now. We know several areas where we need to improve, and we’ll be rolling out this best practice for all our teams during the General Election next year.

Talking of which, we are launching the biggest-ever campaign in Scotland for next year. We have identified 23 seats and we aim to contest them all. That makes a difference from the 2005 General Election when we contested two.

As our candidate, Charlie Baillie, said at the count, this election has established us as a credible alternative in Scotland.

Incidentally, while all the candidates lined up on stage for the announcement of the result, they all, like ill-mannered peasants, left the stage when Mr Baillie walked forward to speak. By so doing they were demonstrating their sneering contempt for the 1,013 good people of Glasgow North East who voted for the BNP, as well as their contempt for the democratic process.

Let us leave the final word to Mr Baillie who told this website: “I’d like to thank all the activists from Glasgow, and the others who travelled far distances to be with us, and without whose help this result would not have been possible. I’d especially like to thank our Chairman Nick Griffin for visiting Glasgow twice. His tremendous popularity really helped us deliver this result. Thank you, Nick. To the 1,013 people of Glasgow North East, thank you.”

Now please take the next step. Please register your interest on this website. We want to meet you and speak with you. We need your help.

If you can help BNP Scotland at the General Election — we are looking for candidates, activists and people who can help pay for the £500 deposit in each constituency — please contact Scottish Regional Organiser Gary Raikes at Scotland @ bnp.org.uk with your full name and address, or send a letter to PO Box 11815, Turriff, AB53 8WB.

And remember you can help us do all these things, and more, without even being a member!

A council LED BY THE SNP is facing an investigation.

£1million of taxpayers money has been earmarked by the Nationalists’ main donor, Souter, for a planned transport project.

A six-figure sum has been set aside by Fife Council so that a hovercraft service can run between Kirkcaldy and Portobello. This is the brainchild of SNP donor Brian Souter’s firm Stagecoach. The local authority pencilled in the funding without having a business plan in place.

And Labour is demanding an Audit Scotland probe after it emerged.

This is the latest attempt by Stagecoach to win public subsidy for a hovercraft service across the Firth of Forth.

Stagecoach is calculated to make pre-tax profits of £192.2m next year. In 2007 the owners of Stagecoach bankrolled the SNP’s Holyroodelection campaign with a cool £500,000 donation. Last year the Scottish Government and stakeholders were asked to contribute £3.3 Million for the project.

The service was put on the back burner after Labour questioned why taxpayers’ money was being handed out to help Stagecoach – the SNP’s main donor’s company.

Earlier this year Fife Council set aside £1 Million in infrastructure costs.

Fife Council is jointly run by SNP and Lib Dems with Lib Dems Councillor Tony Martin saying “We have put in £1 Million, which came out of our revenue budget” and that Stagecoach would only get the money if Edinburgh City Council contributed the same amount – another SNP and Lib Dem run Council.

“The money would be used for building ramps for the hovercraft to go on in Kirkcaldy. I’m very supportive of it, but we need a commitment from the Edinburgh side,” he said.

Before handing over the £1 Million, Tony Martin said that the Council must receive a plan setting out a full business case for the service.

Souter said: “If I could get Edinburgh to give as much help as Fife, we would be up and running”.

The funding commitment of the hovercraft project will be discussed next week by the Council

Labour MSP, George Foulkeshas concerns: “Fife Council have to be careful for two reasons. One is that they might be subject to European regulations. Secondly, they should be concerned about favouring one company that has connections with people who are funding the SNP. This will raise a lot of eyebrows in the Kingdom when the council is cutting back on home care services. I will be writing to Audit Scotland to ask for an investigation into how this £1m was allocated.”

Murdo Fraser, Tory MSP, said: “Given that the government has been cool towards a hovercraft, it is highly questionable that Fife Council seem to think it is worthy of support. And given that Brian Souteris the highest-profile donor to the SNP, SNP-run councils have to be extremely careful to demonstrate their dealings withhim have been done in a proper arms-length manner.”

SNP representative and Fife Council leader, Peter Grant, said: “If we, as a local authority, think there are significant benefits to the people of Fife from this service, we should see if we can support it in some way. If George Foulkes thinks we’ll just put money in Brian Souter’s back pocket then he is out of touch.”

A spokesperson from Stagecoach said the company was committed to the £10 Million investment to the project and that “Stagecoach Group does not give money to any political party. We are apolitical and work with councils and governments of lots of different outlooks.

Asked why the firm could not meet the full costs of the hovercraft service, given that pre-tax profits of next year calculated at £192.2m, he said: “We have asked for potential public funding support for a project that would bring economic, social and transport benefits to people both in Fife and Edinburgh.”

The service went on trial between 16^th and 28^th July in which 32,099 passengers travelled on the hovercraft.

At a meeting of the South East of Scotland Partnership (SEStran), which provided £92,000 of the £100,000 public subsidy towards the hovercraft trial, it was recorded that: “The press release from Stagecoach appears to have contradicted some of the information from the consultants.”

The Chairman of SEStran and Midlothian councillor, Colin Imrie, met Stagecoach earlier this year and said “both parties recognised that much more work needed to be done on the business plan before any commitment for public funding could be made.

“SEStran support the scheme in principle, but we must be confident that a solid business case exists.”