The leadership contest is hotting upand getting nasty.
On the official website the two candidates give their 500 word statements, provoking a barrage of comments 95% of which attack Brons and praise Griffin.
This seems strange and not in keeping with what people are telling me.
I believe Griffin's attack dogs have been loosed from their not very tight leashes.
Many of the statements they make are patent lies. It is a pity that they seem incapable of civilised discussion without resorting to untruths.
Today there are two NW "hustings", one at 5 pm in Salford and one later in Liverpool.
The fact that there are two on the same day with the first being so early (and inconvenient for workers), and at such short notice demonstrates the underhand tactics of our present leader.
Who decided the times of these hustings and the short notice? The same person who dropped the proxy votes on the GMM two weeks ago. Mr Nick Griffin.
I note in his election leaflet his present jobs are MEP, Director of Publicity and editor of VoF and Party Leader.
I would not have thought he would have had time to be editor of our paper and am still puzzled why Martin Wingfield an experienced journalist has been replaced.
It is evident that he has in the poor quality nowadays of what was a well written and intersting publication.
It is as if Nick Griffin does not trust anybody to work for the party except his family and the recent sycophants who have hitched their waggon to his and thus depend on him.
All the senior members who ran the party when I joined 8 years ago have now been replaced, expelled or left in disgust, including long standing members and councillors and activists.
The ones in control now are recent members, ill suited to their positions.
So it is evident that Griffin is not a unity candidate. He has presided over a mass exodus of talent and replaced that talent with mediocrity.
He says the party is growing now but gives no actual figures. I know many who after years of work have given up on the party and many are just hanging on in order to vote for a new leader.
This fact is not shown in the moderated comments on the main website.
We need to join together and Brons is the man to do it.
Too much venom has been spouted. It is time for an amnesty for all those driven away by the high handed actions of our present leader and join together as a strong political force.
Unfortunately those now outside the party will not come back to work with us unless we have a new leader.
If Brons is elected he will only be leader for a year until a new constitution is formulated.
If Griffin wins we are stuck with him in the downward spiral for another 4 years by which time there will be no effective party left.
An often forgotten decision taken at Codnor 3 years ago at the time when we voted for yearly elections was a generous pension for Griffin paid for out of party funds of if my memory serves me right of over £20,000 per year.
I wonder if he has changed this decision like he changed the one year rule for elections?
I am sure he will have tucked away somewhere,the obligation for the party to fund a generous retirement for him.
One last thing.
He says he is campaigning for a referendum on leaving the EU.
Good, we are all in favour of that.
BUT, When is the next batch of the "Bring our Boys Home" petitions to be handed in.
The first 10,000 were handed in amid much publicity and it was stated that others would be delivered later.
Have they been delivered ?
I'll not hold my breath.
