BNP Councillor to defect?

News this week that one of the BNP councillors in Stoke has become a non-aligned (see link below) - i.e. an independent councillor.

According to feedback to the piece on the link pasted below, the councillor involved has been a BNP councillor for some years, i.e. he's not one of the few new BNP councillors voted in last week.

This raises the issue not just of a lack of ideology in the "new candidates" which many in the BNP have complained about (as well as homosexual candidates...), but a similar potential lack of ideology in long-standing councillors???

Some have said that the councillor is in talks with the Tories, and that he's been offered a post with the local Tories on the council (claiming he'd get some extra few thousand a year -- the spin machine, as usual, focusing on money!).

If this person quit the BNP after some years as a councillor to become non-aligned, the obvious question is "why"?

It will no doubt lead to further grumblings in a party which has ditched much of its remaining ideology in an effort to appeal "moderate."

Following the resignations of Michael Jackson... sorry, Michael "Anyone born in England is English" Johnson the quarter-caste and his erstwhile party-boss Mark Cotterill (not pictured), one has to question the criteria for selection and the ideological awareness of nationalist candidates and councillors.

There is no doubt these resignations boil down to a lack of any nationalist ideology within the wider "movement" in recent years.

Sad but true: and I've heard this from the mouths of sitting nationalist councillors themselves -- so it's not a case of "sour grapes," just political reality.

http://northwestnationalists....resigns-after-seven-days.html