Labour is in retreat, the Tories are in meltdown and the common sense of
the British people is winning through! That's the verdict from Blackburn
where tonight the BNP scored a tremendous result in the council by-election
held in the Mill Hill ward.

The results of the count are (after a 3rd recount):

Robin Evans (BNP) 577 (32%)
(Labour) 562 (31%)
(Lib-Dems) 505 (28%)
(Conservative) 154 (9%)


Turnout: 39%


This is a ward which has never been contested by the BNP

The voters in this once prosperous Lancashire former mill town have
delivered a snub of epic proportions to New Labour as this borough also
happens to be the parliamentary constituency of none other than New Labour
heavyweight, Cabinet Member and Foreign Secretary, Mr. Jack Straw.

Despite the usual dirty tactics from the local rag, despite name-calling by
the local Church of England Bishop who really should know better, and
despite strong words of warning from Premier Blair and local MP Jack Straw
the common sense of the Blackburn voters enabled them to see through these
dirty tricks and our opponents' distortion of the fundamental importance of
the BNP message.

During the election campaign there were dirty tricks by the "Lancashire
Evening Telegraph" which regardless of its local and homely title is owned
by an US based multi-national media conglomerate called Gannett Inc.

There was the extraordinary departure from the World stage by Premier Blair
to warn the few thousand voters in Mill Hill that a vote for the British
National Party would be "a wasted vote".

There was the amazing comment from New Labour "big gun" Jack Straw that
people should get out and vote for anyone "…except the BNP".

Jack Straw's constituency has witnessed the same political changes that
have been seen in the past 6 months in Burnley, Oldham, Stoke, Lewisham and
elsewhere. On one side we have quite simply the "old gang" parties of
Labour, Tory and Lib-Dem with their discredited policies of failure,
discrimination and mistrust and on the other side we have the one party
that is prepared to challenge the failed policies of the old gang parties
and that is the British National Party which aims to bring about a better
society for all.

Turnout

Local interest in the electoral process was clearly stimulated by the
presence of Mr. Evans. The turnout of 39% was high for this kind of
election and the message that comes from Mill Hill is that the BNP is good
for voter participation and democracy.

Newly elected BNP Councillor Robin Evans and his team worked hard across
the ward assuring people of all cultural backgrounds that the BNP quite
simply wants to put British interests at the top of the agenda but that all
members of the community will benefit from a BNP councillor being elected.
This is borne out by a significant fall in race-hate crimes in Burnley
where the BNP have three elected councillors from the council elections in
May this year.

So Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council can now take centre stage in the
global media that a victory for common sense has prevailed and that despite
the very worst of anti-British propaganda, the inherent core values of
decency, respect, civic pride, love of one's family and neighbours has won
the day.

Labour's strategy is clearly flawed. It cannot continue to prostitute
itself for the Muslim vote in places such as Blackburn when the Labour
Prime Minister is sure to order the bombing of Iraq in the next few weeks,
exacerbating the plight of Iraqi children and bring about the collapse of
one of the more moderate regimes in the Middle East.

The BNP result in Lancashire also has to be put into the context wherein
those dedicated men and women who are campaigning on behalf of the BNP just
a few hundred miles to the north of Blackburn face censure because of a
political trial which saw a jail sentence of 4 months imposed on a BNP
activist, tantamount to jailing political dissidents but this was the
extraordinary verdict of Ms Linda Ruxton who acting as Sheriff jailed a
Glasgow based BNP activist for distributing material likely to cause racial
hatred.

It has to be admitted that the emotion of tonight's victory is one of
triumphalism. A small hard working team of activists working with the very
people who are in the frontline of Blair's evil policy of mass immigration
and political censure are now convinced that the success tonight in
Lancashire will be replicated in many locations throughout the British
Isles in the next few months.

A few votes for the party of common sense but a victory which will have
reverberations throughout the entire country!