Strength in depth - the hallmark of our Thurrock vote

May 20, 2008 by Martin Wingfield
Filed under Martin Wingfield

THE British National Party’s challenge in Thurrock was one of the first items on BBC Television’s Election Special programme with the reporter at the count announcing that the BNP was ‘polling significantly across the borough’.

Thurrock was seen as one of the main battlegrounds between Labour and the Tories and hundreds of campaign workers for the two main parties swamped the crucial wards in an effort to shore up their votes. In addition to this the anti-BNP groups were out in force trying to dissuade voters from supporting our candidates.

So in the face of this onslaught, the British National Party results here were definitely something to take satisfaction from.

Emma Colgate led the challenge to both Labour and the Tories by taking Tilbury Riverside & Thurrock Park from Labour with nearly 40% of the vote. She was closely followed by Angela Daly who received a 41% vote share in Tilbury St. Chads but fell just 61 votes short of victory.

But it was the strength in depth which was the hallmark of the BNP performance with the Party polling over 20% in ten of the 18 seats contested and the lowest return on the night still a respectable 11.6% vote share.

Following Emma and Angela, the best BNP votes were for Dave Strickson who came second in Aveley & Uplands with 28.1% and Bryn Robinson, also second, with 29.3% in Chadwell St. Mary.

THURROCK COUNCIL
Aveley & Uplands
Dave Strickson (BNP) 521
Con 845, Lab 363, Lib-Dem 128.
BNP Percentage: 28.1%

Belhus
Lauren Kay (BNP) 387
Lab 786, Con 549, Lib-Dem 115.
BNP Percentage: 21.6%

Chadwell St. Mary
Bryn Robinson (BNP) 645
Lab 925, Con 515, Lib-Dem 119.
BNP Percentage: 29.3%

Chafford & North Stifford
Sandra Strickson (BNP) 201
Con 866, Lib-Dem 390, Lab 188.

BNP Percentage: 12.4%

Corringham & Fobbing
Warren Parish (BNP) 303
Con 837, Lab 560.

BNP Percentage: 17.8%

East Tilbury
Bradley Elvin (BNP) 286
Ind 923, Lab 220.

BNP Percentage: 20.0%

Grays Riverside
Jamie Strickson (BNP) 398
Lab 720, Con 473, Lib-Dem 130.
BNP Percentage: 23.1%

Grays Thurrock
Ricky Strickson (BNP) 445
Lab 1011, Con 555, Lib-Dem 128.
BNP Percentage: 20.1%

Little Thurrock Blackshots
Kay Dean (BNP) 243
Con 735, Lab 279, UKIP 207, Lib-Dem 106.
BNP Percentage: 15.5%

Ockendon
Sophie Agass (BNP) 422
Con 1016, Lab 806.
BNP Percentage: 18.8%

Orsett
Derek Beackon (BNP) 330
Con 1103, Lab 420.
BNP Percentage: 17.8%

South Chafford
Donna Strickson (BNP) 111
Con 547, Lab 188, Lib-Dem 149.
BNP Percentage: 11.6%

Stanford East & Corringham Town
Danny Brown (BNP) 344
Con 1069, Lab 949, Ind 98.
BNP Percentage: 14.0%

Standford-Le-Hope West
Anita Jessup (BNP) 275
Con 718, Lab 450, UKIP 165.
BNP Percentage: 17.1%

The Homesteads
Paul Woodley (BNP) 542
Con 1203, Lab 901.

BNP Percentage: 20.5%

Tilbury Riverside & Thurrock Park
Emma Colgate (BNP) 530 - ELECTED

Lab 463, Con 144, Ind 192.
BNP Percentage: 39.9%

Tilbury St Chads
Angela Daly (BNP) 458
Lab 519, Con 139.
BNP Percentage: 41.0%

West Thurrock & South Stifford
Ken Daly (BNP) 386
Lab 668, Con 586.
BNP Percentage: 23.5%

The full election results from May 1st can be found in the latest issue of Freedom, the British National Party’s monthly newspaper. You can subscribe to Freedom here.

More BNP news and thoughts on Martin Wingfield’s blog here

Tags: BBC, BNP, Eco, Freedom, Labour, MP, Tories, Tory, UKIP

31 Responses to “Strength in depth - the hallmark of our Thurrock vote”

esselliott on May 20th, 2008 7:45 am

The Lib.Dems must have been highly dismayed. It appears that we are fast becoming the third party in British politics. Labour are reliant on the immigrant vote. Have you noticed how the planned eco towns are to be placed in the south of England, usual Tory strongholds? However if one Islamic outrage occurs and Labour have to clamp down hard it could see their vote completely disintegrate.

Interesting times.
Legend on May 20th, 2008 7:53 am

Excellent result! Congratulations to all involved who are now seeing the fruits of their hard work, courage and tenacity.
mono on May 20th, 2008 8:46 am

The sun is shining, the birds are singing and our voice is growing stronger! And you know what? People are starting to listen because they know we speak the truth. In these grim times when labour are trying their best to take away all the freedoms of the British people, news like this gladdens my heart and gives me strength to keep on fighting for what I know to be right. This is our country and we want it back. To Hell with Labour and to Hell with their E.U masters. Vote BNP!
This is my country on May 20th, 2008 9:26 am

If only we could move the clock forward a bit but still live in the present time,(if you get what I mean). Reading through the papers today, (in fact, most days), it’s all doom and gloom and scare stories. Enforced collection of everyones e-mails and telephone calls, enforced eco towns due to the mass immigration influx, enforced this, that and the other.
Imagine living in a country where you could be happy and relaxed, where knife weilding gangs didn’t roam the streets, where the elderly has some respect and where 1984 was a book, not a reality.
How long will it take before the BNP become one of the three big parties. If we can do it in the Thurrock area, whats the difference between there and say any other area of the country, (obvious reasons excluded). Are we going to get to a position where as in Italy for instance, vigilante groups are now burning down illegal immigrant camps because nothing is being done to stop the influx. Surely its better to have a party in power that oversees the right of the indigenous person than mass rioting? The question is…..how long must we wait?
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Till people stop voting for the liblabcon. - Ed
bertie bert on May 20th, 2008 9:52 am

To add to the good news, in case you haven’t seen this video.

look at the high percentages the BNP are getting, yet the media silence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbeeUTiXSN4
samba on May 20th, 2008 10:15 am

Well done all, where are those idiot Green party people? They should be screaming from the highest point in Britain. Only a stupid fairground fool would believe that there is such a thing as an ‘eco town’. I take it all the immigrants who will live there will have no cars and will plough up the green space, WHAT’S LEFT OF IT, to grow poppies, and will not flog off the solar panels.

We are now entering dangerous times. This land of ours is not up for grabs. The only way this government will listen is civil unrest. This land of ours and its’ animals, who we have been living together with in harmony for centuries, is fast coming to a end.

THE LAND AND ANIMALS CAN’T FIGHT BACK. WE CAN.

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We will never promote civil unrest and disorder in the BNP. The ballot box MUST be the way for us, which means spreading OUR green message, far and wide. Read BNP policy on globalisation and “Pass it On” http://leejohnbarnes.blogspot.com/search?q=Harvard -Ed
baz on May 20th, 2008 10:19 am

It is almost unheard of to lose with 41% of the vote. Just as an example Labour won a landslide victory with 41% of the vote in a general election. Judging by the result shown, Angela Daly only had two challengers. This means some agreement by other parties not to stand.
We know that this sort of tactic is happening, the net result being it distorts our percentages and stops us winning more seats.

Still our march is relentless, all the tricks they pull tend to fade into the ether as we progress. Any one out there with the wobbles take note. Years ago the three headed monster didn’t need to go to such lenghts and double figures as a percentage was news in our publications. They did a wonderful job in Thurrock as the main push was the GLA elections. The whole media feeding frenzy was Boris and ken… Cons verses lab. Because a large percentage of the electorate are easily led, the council elections followed a similar pattern.

EURO’s NEXT I cannot wait. The three headed monster is at this moment conspiring to lessen our impact.
baz on May 20th, 2008 10:45 am

Just a word to samba. Civil unrest led by us is what the Cerberus dream of nightly. Our tactic of using the ballot box is working. Your suggestion would see the entire upper management of our party in chokey. Their feet would not have touched the ground. We do have a weak, shabby governance, but the laws are in place. The only way is within the law. I saw the word Cerberus posted yesterday–the perfect noun to describe the three-headed monster Liblabcon, and quicker to write, so I’ll be using it in any further posts

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Why not, baz, but check the spelling, it’s Cerberus
Cerberus:
Info - http://www.mythicalrealm.com/creatures/cerberus.html
Image - http://www.celestialheavens.com/heroespedia/images/5/58/H5Cerberus.jpg - Ed
jao7 on May 20th, 2008 10:47 am

I have looked at the results from these by-elections up and down our land, and it seems to me that our biggest target in many areas is not the liberalWetocrats who are nationally the third biggest party, but Labour, (I am not suggesting that we could beat Labour nationally). We lose out closely to Labour in many areas, so I would think that come the next general election (if we have one, Noel!), and Labour carry on in their inept way, which they will because there are no intellectuals within the party anymore. We could do rather well, as it is supposed that people vote more on local issues in local elections, rather than national issues, although these days the two are becoming more and more closely linked.
The BNP needs another gear, and I think we are getting it via publicity. People know we are on the political map. Getting ‘The Lionheart’ elected into the GLA was an enormous boost–imagine the field day the opposition would have had if we lost that one! A lot rode on that result for the BNP. People know what the BNP think about immigration, and I thought the PPB they did was good in that it mentioned immigration once. If the immigration issue were to be sorted by the next government (highly unlikely), it could leave us on a limb, as we are still perceived as a one issue party by many, i.e. immigration. Perhaps we should start pushing another issue or two asides immigration, although it is of course helping our success. I personally think a campaign of growing our own food produce would be welcome in the eyes of the public. It is good four fold;

1. More jobs for British workers.
2. Helps reduce carbon footprint.
3. Utilises our land, a good temperate land for food growth,and better tasting food.
4. Less reliance on other countries.

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And that fits in very nicely with our anti-gloabilist, Eco-Nationalist stance. See Lee John Barnes great piece here: http://leejohnbarnes.blogspot.com/search?q=Harvard -Ed
Joshua Mills on May 20th, 2008 11:04 am

To successfully win votes and by-elections. We need to target the un-educated and incapable of rational thought, at first. Later the sheep of Britain will follow suit as the BNP rises out of the gutter and up the drain pipe.

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Up the drain pipe, huh? What’s that at the window - s’okay, it’s just another of those sheep! - Ed.
apendragon on May 20th, 2008 11:18 am

Baaaaa!
baz on May 20th, 2008 11:37 am

Didn’t you notice? It was almost right. Youv’e caught me out, I flunked Greek mythology at Eton. My syntax isn’t much better, but who likes tax anyway?
I bet the groupies of the three headed cerberus don’t even know what it is, let alone spell it. How to.

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- Ed
martello tower on May 20th, 2008 12:17 pm

Michael Nicholson was awesome on ITV last night, hats off to them for actually doing the programme.

Is this the start of the fightback?

Anyway, the subject of British workers being either sacked or ignored by British employers, featured first this Labour character Timms contorting his face trying to deny the merit of the recent Lords commission’s report on immigration. The creature married to Blears was doing likewise under Nicholson’s questioning, and he appeared to be giving veiled threats about the programme even being made on the subject!

They are letting their masks slip!
Artorius on May 20th, 2008 12:44 pm

The NuLabour thought-police want to know who’s visiting the BNP website:

“A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.”

- ‘Fight against crime and terrorism’ my Rs!

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece

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Once again, using the catch-all “Crime and Terror” excuse, this is just another Soviet-style attack on freedom of speech and privacy. Of course, “dissenters” like ourselves, who KNOW and UNDERSTAND the depth and progression of the LibLabCon/EUSSR plot, would, no doubt, be the real targets-Ed
bertie bert on May 20th, 2008 1:04 pm

martello tower , yes I too saw that program, following Gordon Browns British jobs for British workers speech, which under the EU illegal, and the employers that were recorded saying they only want polish workers.

None of the MP’s interviewed could give a straight forward answer to the question posed.

Also the fact that all those British lads (disprooving the theory that Brits dont want to work) that went for jobs as that new factory was built in their area, only to be turned down because they had some 80% polish workforce already set up.

A few of the men that had worked in a factory for some 9 or 10 years , their bosses took on some polish workers and got those men to train them, then said that they needed to cut back on the workforce so they made the British lads redundant.
When asked why the company didn’t make the Polish (as not having been there very long) redundant, they said it would be discrimination and against the law!
Normal people know why, it’s because the Poles can work for less because it’s more than they could earn at home.

It is so bosses can make more profit, in a climate of high tax, high business rates , or go out of business.
All the fault of a usless Government.
maurice oatley on May 20th, 2008 1:15 pm

I bet the mugs that vote for the Lib/Lab/Con axis of evil REALLY do believe the snooping is to combat terrorism….Dah!!! my brain hurts.
whistle on May 20th, 2008 1:16 pm

Fact or Fiction?
Watching a DVD of the Bourne Ultimatum,
the Hero is being chased through London watched on cctv,which were controlled by the CIA in New York!!
Hows about that!!They are going to have to build prisons on an enormous scale to get all our party into them,and yes,our e-mails have been looked at for a long while I will wager.These are the freedoms a different generation fought long and hard for
gradually being taken away,all in the name of terrorism.One has to look at terrorism more closely,to find who the real terrorist are.As for that scumbag married to Harman(not Blears,Martello tower),he is a disgrace,I would not like him working on my behalf,and he is very high up in the TUC.TRAITORS THE LOT OF THEM.
Godblessenoch on May 20th, 2008 1:30 pm

So the thought police want to know who’s visiting this great site. Well, for one, I am, along with many others and more by the day.

To Mr Straw (puppet) and cronies, if you dont like it, we know we are doing something right.

P.s Congratulations to all concerned in Thurrock!
maurice oatley on May 20th, 2008 2:15 pm

I find it almost beyond belief that a good proportion of the “great” British public are reluctant to check out the BNP site. I know this from personal experience, I`ve always suggested to anyone showing a degree of interest in the BNP that they visit the site to enable them to form an opinion. On meeting them at a later date they say they have either forgotten or they haven’t had time, or more likely in my opinion they`re scared to death(Of what, escapes me) I`am sure this latest offering from Bean and Co wont help the situation.
gyukcas on May 20th, 2008 2:27 pm

berti bert, The reason for the continued media silence on the rapid emergence of the BNP is quite simple. HUMBLE PIE tastes really bitter to the gutter media,as does having to eat their own words. Fantastic times lie ahead for this party. The word is spreading. The BNP are on the march!

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Hear hear! - Ed
Englishman first on May 20th, 2008 3:10 pm

That was a really good poke in the eye for the local Communists.Glad to see people are finally thinking about who they give their votes to, instead of voting for some donkey with a Labour or Tory sticker on it. Up to now a lot of people have been voting like blind sheep, for other reason than their parents had bad voting habits
Liverpool Lad on May 20th, 2008 3:39 pm

I cant even post on here i am so mad ………………………………………………………………………………………..

Why can no-one see what is happening and that the government along with the tories and libs are killing us off………………..
hackneyboy on May 20th, 2008 5:48 pm

Well done to all the Essex boys & girls. In all these frontline areas of Essex (Dagenham, Loughton, Thurrock) the people have seen what has happened to London & the old adjoining parts of Essex ( Leyton, Walthamstow, West ham, East Ham, Stratford)and are not prepared to put up with the enrichment that has happened to these once proud towns. In addition, many people were forced from their old manor, and they cannot keep being forced eastwards as they will all end up living on Maplin Sands or Radio Caroline, and I dont think there is enough room there anyway. The fightback has started, folk can see through the liblabcon trick.
Arise East Saxons!
Vlad on May 20th, 2008 6:00 pm

Here’s a thought, we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. If we’ve had enough and rise up the government will use that as an excuse to ban the BNP. If we maintain our fight through democratic elections the goverment will fiddle the results denying the BNP even a sniff of power. I haven’t got a clue what’s going to happen in the long run, but all we can do in the meantime is continue to fight.
Noel on May 20th, 2008 6:19 pm

jao7: in case you missed my reply to your query, which I posted at 11.53 p.m. 19 May under the article titled “Labour’s Destruction of the Black Country”,
here’s the reference again:
http://www.eutruth.org.uk. There you can read a one-page summary of the Lisbon EUSSR Constitution Treaty
and also its full text. Ominously, what are not included in the full text are the relevant Protocols,
which are merely listed but not printed out, so as keep them safe from prying eyes.

Have a look and then you will know why Common Purpose and our EUSSR-supporting politicians refer to the EUSSR as “post-democratic Europe”.
lordhelpuz on May 20th, 2008 6:45 pm

dear ED,of course you are right to say that the way to power is through the ballot box,but i am afraid it was the bomb and the bullet that brought the IRA and the UNIONIST to the table.the extreme left wont just roll over and see the BNP voted in democraticaly.it is not supprising some of us get so frustrated and want to take to the streets.but as i say,you are right,and lets hope god is with us on this one.best regards.

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We cannot know how things will play out, but in the meantime we will take the democratic route.
If that fails we will have tried and it will be known that we tried.
Responsibilty for what happens after that will lie with those who deny us a voice.
They will have chosen the path, not us. - Ed
Stringbag on May 20th, 2008 8:44 pm

“They will have chosen the path, not us. - Ed”

A desperate economic debacle within the next 2/3 years is now a racing certainty.

What is happening now reminds me powerfully of the collapse of the Royal Government of Charles I during the period 1640-2.

This was an absolutist regime which had attempted to impose a deeply unpopular religious framework on the country which has a parallel in multi-culturalism and the paradise of diversity today. Short of money it resorted to heavy taxation policies of highly questionable legality. The regime’s authority started to crumble in Scotland, again the parallel is persuasive. The King’s Minister, Strafford, was a far more impressive figure than the clowns and cretins found in ZanuNulab - or indeed the Bullingdon Club come to that. But he could nor avert the regime’s disintegration or indeed save his own life ultimately.

The dire financial position of the State today would also have been perfectly familiar to the French Finance Minister at the time of the Revolution, Necker, again he was a far superior individual to this pair of idiots Brown and Darling - but it did the Ancien Regime no good in the end.

If you’ve got a bit of historical perspective it is palpable, you can sense it, there’s something in the air.
samba on May 20th, 2008 8:49 pm

Yes baz im a great fan of the ballot box but only when it is used in a fair and proper manner. However as we all know it can be used as weapon against the up-and-coming gang, like us .

QUOTE STALIN: IT’S NOT THE VOTES THAT COUNT, IT’S WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.
Noel on May 20th, 2008 11:18 pm

Stringbag: I hope you’re correct - it’ll be a lot quicker than having to wait until the oil wells run dry.
Stringbag on May 21st, 2008 9:26 am

“Stringbag: I hope you’re correct ”

So do I, Noel. The regime can create a surveillance police state, it can apply news management techniques to the MSM - especially the BBC, it can turn its appalling school system into multi-culti propaganda units, it can impose a prescriptive politically correct work-place discipline. But it can’t wish away or crush the deep underlying discontent Andrew Marr style:

“And the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain ‘natural’ beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off.” [7] wiki

Excuse me but who is the totalitarian here then? Above all, what the regime cannot escape is the dysfunctional, hollowed-out economy which lib-lab-con have facilitated, connived and colluded into existence. The reckoning here draws ever closer.
royalecraig on May 21st, 2008 2:55 pm

Yea they would love the BNP to incite riots so they could close the BNP down. Don’t fall for that, just keep recruiting.

If you hear of BNP sponsored trouble, it’s a lie, the BNP would not be so stupid.

We are not going to fall into that trap.

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