There's been some queer goings on of late within Amber Valley BNP. Councillor Cliff Roper resigned the party whip in disgust at Griffin only to displace Councillor Lewis Allsebrook as party leader a week later. Is he really making a principled stand or is he just manouvering for power?

Cliff resigned on 15th June claiming that the move " is a symbolic protest at recent events within the British National Party, both at a national and local level." Infighting between Roper and Allsebrook has been going on for a while and has been fuelled by claims by other party members that Emma Roper, his wife, was having an affair with Allsebrook. There has also been speculation that Allsebrook was thinking of defecting to the Tories and wasn't considered to be right wing enough for Roper and that Allsebrook wasn't pulling his weight in the local party.

In the following week it seems lots of backroom deals were made and Roper ended up not only going back to the party but being promoted to leader of the BNP group, displacing Allsebrook in the process. So much for the "symbolic protest"!

We look forward to more infighting and disintegration in the future :)