humanspirit wrote:
diamondgeezer wrote:
I'll bet there are a few former BNP members who have joined the Labour party for example.
Do you have an example of this?
Several...
efp.org.uk/ex-bnp-organiser-now-a-labour-party-candidate/
From nationalist to marxist, only Phileas Fogg had a more unbelieveable journey!
With all the news of BNP activists, officials and organisers defecting to the English Democrats over the last week – including their former Yorkshire Regional Oraniser Chris Beverley (who will be standing for the ED’s in Leeds), most of the media missed the story of another former BNP organiser defecting to the Labour Party! –
blackburnlabour.org/2011-local-elections/your-local-candidates/
Trevor Maxfield, who was once the BNP’s Blackburn with Darwen branch organiser, defected to the Labour Party late last year, and has now been selected by the Labour Party to fight Darwen’s Earcroft ward in the upcoming local council elections!
Maxfield has a long history in right wing/nationalist politics and was associated with Blood and Honour, National Front and Combat 18 before joining the BNP in 2002. He later joined the right wing For Darwen Party (which included many former BNP and England First members) in 2007, and was elected as a councillor to Blackburn with Darwen borough council later that year under their banner.
He quit the For Darwen Party along with another of their councillors – former BNP member Anthony Meleady – in 2010 and sat as an independent for a short while before joining Labour.
However, Maxfield kept up links with his former comrades and was in Southport last year (2010) on July 12th for the annual Loyalist parades, where he met up with England First, BNP, NF and other Loyalists
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/jun/14/localgovernment.politics
Ex-BNP councillor switches to Labour
Maureen Stowe, the Burnley councillor who left the British National party in February, has joined Labour in the wake of last week's local government elections.
Ms Stowe was elected as a BNP councillor in Burnley's Brunshaw ward in May 2003 by a margin of just three votes. She was one of eight BNP councillors elected in the former cotton town in a result that sent shockwaves across Britain, but never formally joined the party.
She broke her links with the BNP in February to become an independent councillor after declaring: "I've never been a racist." She spoke out openly against the party in the run-up to last Thursday's local and European elections, saying she had been conned into becoming a BNP councillor, "like most people who voted for me, by believing their lies".
Ms Stowe said she joined the Labour party on Friday in the aftermath of the elections, which saw Labour losing the council to no overall control. The party lost two seats to the Liberal Democrats and one to the BNP, which unseated long-serving Labour councillor and major-elect John Harbour.
"I have joined Labour because I felt there had been an injustice when I was with the BNP and I want to make that right and be part of building Burnley back up to what it should be," Ms Stowe said.
She paid tribute to Mr Harbour, whose loss of his seat was "really sad - he'd worked so hard for 14 years on the council".
Ms Stowe added: "I chose Labour because I think they've done a good job in Burnley. [Council leader] Stuart Caddy and his team have worked hard and listened to people from last year: they got the wake-up call when the BNP got in."