North West Leicestershire Party

Last night we attended a party in rural North West Leicestershire, thrown for the BNP candidate Nick Porter and all the people involved in the recent election in Melton Mowbray. Amongst the people present were, Carol, Maurice and Mark Collett, Wayne and Sam McDermott, Geoff Dickens, John Ryde, Cllrs Ian Meller, Graham Partner and Cathy Duffy. The Melton election resulted in the BNP beating the Conservatives by 236 votes to 177, but losing out to Labour by a mere 72 votes, which shows the BNP making serious in roads in rural Leicestershire. Figures show that 32.5% of voters turned out to vote British National Party. Well done to all involved.

Maurice Collett took the opportunity to announce the total raised in the East Midlands for his recent sponsored bike ride from Rothley to Skegness being a whopping £4065. This fantastic amount has beaten all hopes and expectations and will be added to the amount already collated for the East Midlands Euro Election Fund 2009.

During the evening Carol Collett presented our dedicated and hard working East Midlands Press Officer John Ryde with a surprise birthday cake for his recent 70th birthday. John really is the unsung hero of the East Midlands. Happy Birthday John from Broxtowe BNP.

Pictured are Wayne McDermott, John Ryde, Cllr Ian Meller and Maurice Collett.

Nick Griffin returns to Broxtowe

BNP Party Chairman Nick Griffin was warmly welcomed back to Broxtowe last night to an enthusiastic audience of over 100.

Broxtowe organiser Nina Brown opened the meeting with a report detailing plans for the group in the run up to the County and Euro elections next year. It had been rumoured on various left wing sites that after the recent problems the Broxtowe BNP Group no longer existed, this was convenient for us as we were able to quietly concentrate on fundraising, increasing the sale of the party literature, which has more than doubled since this time last year, and holding several social evenings with our members throughout the Broxtowe borough.

East Midlands Regional Organiser, Geoff Dickens then reported how he has seen many attempted splits during his many years involvement with Nationalist Parties and had not been surprised when it failed.

Maurice Collett made an announcement that although he was still in the process of collecting funds raised for his sponsored bike ride from Leicestershire to Skegness recently. The total so far is just over £2,000.

After a break for tea, coffee and biscuits, the Party Chairman held a question and answer session with questions from the audience on a range of hot topics such as crime, the energy crisis, immigration and the EU. No politician from any of the parties would attempt this without carefully filtered questions and delicately worded answers.

A collection of £375, along with money from the sale of Excalibur merchandise funds raised during the evening totalled £588. Nina thanked everyone that had made the meeting possible, Dave Brown, Martyn and Kim Page, Adey and Caroline Woods, Wendy Russell Linda Moore and not forgetting the security team who had travelled from outside the area to ensure the safety of everyone attending the meeting.