People who live in glass houses ...
The "Cumbrian Patriots" blog which is run by the BNP candidate for Copeland has had an article up for the past couple of days poking fun at a UKIP candidate who failed to spell the word "Britain" correctly.
Unfortunately for the BNP their item pointing out that UKIP can't spell came quickly on the heels of items which demonstrate that the BNP can't add up.
Just underneath the scan of UKIP with the wrong spelling, was a scan of a BNP leaflet which includes a quote attributed to their party's national chairman about how well they supposedly did in Copeland. A couple of posts before that the BNP candidate himself made a claim about the share of the vote which the BNP received in Copeland in last year's elections.
These claims are contradictory, and they're both wrong.
Griffin (or whoever drafted the statement which appears under his name) claims that the BNP got
"An incredible 19% share of the vote across the whole of the Borough of Copeland"
I suppose that is incredible in the literal sense that you can't believe it - because it isn't true.
Jefferson, by contrast, refers to "the rock solid 17%+ we received right across the Borough."
Not as far out as his national chairman, but still wrong.
In the European elections, the BNP polled 2572 of the 20275 votes cast in the Borough of Copeland, which is just under 12.7% - to put that in context that is less than half the votes polled by the Conservatives or Labour, and the BNP came in fourth behind those parties and their least favourite party, UKIP.
They did a couple of points better in the county elections, but didn't reach 17% let alone 19%.
Pete Whitehead estimated on the Vote UK Discussion Forum that the BNP got about 13.4% of the votes cast in the Copeland Constituency during the county elections. It's impossible to prove or disprove that because two county divisions are split between Workington and Copeland.
In the thirteen county divisions wholly within the Copeland constituency, the BNP polled 14.2% of the vote. In the twelve within Copeland Borough they polled 3250 votes out of 20593 which is 15.8% of the vote. That is some way short of a "rock solid 17+%."
I'm sure the BNP would prefer if the coming parliamentary election in Copeland were fought on the Borough boundaries - I'm sure Jamie Reed would too. But it won't be.
Unfortunately for the BNP their item pointing out that UKIP can't spell came quickly on the heels of items which demonstrate that the BNP can't add up.
Just underneath the scan of UKIP with the wrong spelling, was a scan of a BNP leaflet which includes a quote attributed to their party's national chairman about how well they supposedly did in Copeland. A couple of posts before that the BNP candidate himself made a claim about the share of the vote which the BNP received in Copeland in last year's elections.
These claims are contradictory, and they're both wrong.
Griffin (or whoever drafted the statement which appears under his name) claims that the BNP got
"An incredible 19% share of the vote across the whole of the Borough of Copeland"
I suppose that is incredible in the literal sense that you can't believe it - because it isn't true.
Jefferson, by contrast, refers to "the rock solid 17%+ we received right across the Borough."
Not as far out as his national chairman, but still wrong.
In the European elections, the BNP polled 2572 of the 20275 votes cast in the Borough of Copeland, which is just under 12.7% - to put that in context that is less than half the votes polled by the Conservatives or Labour, and the BNP came in fourth behind those parties and their least favourite party, UKIP.
They did a couple of points better in the county elections, but didn't reach 17% let alone 19%.
Pete Whitehead estimated on the Vote UK Discussion Forum that the BNP got about 13.4% of the votes cast in the Copeland Constituency during the county elections. It's impossible to prove or disprove that because two county divisions are split between Workington and Copeland.
In the thirteen county divisions wholly within the Copeland constituency, the BNP polled 14.2% of the vote. In the twelve within Copeland Borough they polled 3250 votes out of 20593 which is 15.8% of the vote. That is some way short of a "rock solid 17+%."
I'm sure the BNP would prefer if the coming parliamentary election in Copeland were fought on the Borough boundaries - I'm sure Jamie Reed would too. But it won't be.
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