The 66-year-old says that the BNP still has parish councillors, such as in Heybridge in Essex, where the party took control in 2016. “The British National party has dozens of councillors the length and breadth of the British Isles,” said David Furness, the party’s press officer. When the Guardian called around unannounced recently, Parker was working on an election leaflet with another BNP member, John Rowe. “I’ll tell you exactly why I voted BNP,” says a plasterer working on a council estate opposite Marsden’s park this week. These people, who may have been voting BNP for 10, 12 years, are they going to tear that ballot paper up?

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2018 15:05 UTC