The other parties representing Britain in the European Parliament suffer from “endemic treason” and are the implacable enemies of everything pertaining to the maintenance of British identity, said Mr Andrew Brons, British National Party Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and Humberside.

Addressing the BNP’s victory rally in Blackpool this afternoon, Mr Brons also dismissed the UKIP party as “civic nationalists” who were equally worthless for the salvation of Britain.

“UKIP likes to pretend they are nationalists, but they are just civic nationalists who want Britain to be independent but do not care who actually lives here,” Mr Brons said to applause.

“It is like someone saying that they are for the family, but not caring who the family is,” he said.

“As for the other parties in Brussels, they all suffer from endemic treason and are implacably opposed to all British traditions, identity and politics.

“One of the reasons they are overreacting to the BNP’s election successes is that they understand the full potential that the BNP vote has,” he continued.

“The BNP won three county councillors, but in a large number of other places we came second and in many other areas the BNP vote increased dramatically. The old parties know and understand our potential, and because they are control freaks, they cannot bear the thought of their real enemies gaining any sort of power.”

Mr Brons said his first visit to the European Parliament building this past week confirmed his impression that the whole structure had been put into place to institutionalise treason.

“Even the main aisles inside the hideous architecture of the building are named after leading traitors from each European nation,” Mr Brons said. “In fact, it seems that the only way you can get one of them named after you is if you have betrayed your nation in some way.

“Furthermore, the lavish opulence of the place is designed to draw weak-willed people into compliance with the treason,” he said.

“From the time you are met at the door by coat tailed flunkies who call you sir, to the lavish offices and expenses details, it is easy to see how some people could be drawn into going along with the whole system. It is designed to develop a gulf between the MEPs and their constituents,” Mr Brons said.

* Earlier, Mr Martin Wingfield, editor of the Voice of Freedom newspaper gave an overview of the BNP’s election performance, pointing out how the BNP vote had grown across every region of the country. There had been particularly strong growth in areas which had previously seen almost no BNP activity, and this was one of the reasons why the BNP had succeeded in increasing its vote in crucial areas, Mr Wingfield said.