Nick Griffin under pressure after BNP’s poor performance
Anti-racist campaigners from Hope not Hate, which had mobilised 1,000 people in the fight against the BNP, said that if the predictions about the party’s performance in the local elections proved accurate Griffin’s position would become increasingly precarious. “We have had over 1,000 volunteers helping with the anti-BNP campaign in Barking and Dagenham since the beginning of April,” said Nick Lowles, editor of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight. “This has proved that the BNP’s message of hate can be beaten by good, community-based campaigning, and has left Nick Griffin very exposed.”
This morning after the parliamentary result was announced at Goresbrook leisure centre, Griffin said his position was safe, telling reporters the BNP was resilient. “I will be the leader of the British National party as long as that is what the members want me to be,” he added.