The BNP's failed councillors

For a complete and up-to-date listing of BNP councillors, please visit the HOPE not hate website here

BNP councillors have been elected on the promise to be different. Criticising the “old gang”, the BNP has benefited from being considered a “new” party, and one that will look after the interests of “local people”.

But the reality is quite different. In every area that has elected BNP councillors voters have been let down. The performance of BNP councillors reveals a shocking list of incompetence, absence and general indifference. Most BNP councillors rarely participate in council business, regularly skip meetings and ignore requests for help from local people. When they do attend meetings they vote against policies on which they campaigned for election, vote with the Tories, or put forward illegal motions.

Many have criminal convictions, including for violence. Several clearly remain uncomfortable with the BNP’s attempts to distance itself from Nazism and antisemitism.

The BNP currently has just 49 councillors out of a national total of over 8,000, yet the majority of even this small number have failed.

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