On Saturday 6 October UKIP held their annual conference at the ‘Troxy Centre’ in Limehouse, East London. Attendance at these events has been falling in recent years, and now seems to be made up mainly of Nigel Farrage’s fan club. As usual, the London BNP decided to send a small, professional welcoming team to show these long-suffering UKIPers that there is a better alternative.

For over an hour the BNP’s message of hope – in the form of a specially prepared leaflet together with the party’s standard anti-EU leaflet - was handed out to the 350 or so delegates attending the conference. This was very well received by the vast majority of members, many of whom were keen to stop and chat.


UKIP members happy to talk to the BNP and take our leaflets


The leaflet also pointed out that instead of growing, UKIP has actually been shrinking in the last few years. Three MEPs have either left the party or had the whip withdrawn, both London Assembly members have resigned and the total membership has shrunk by around a third. UKIP now has far fewer local councillors than the British National Party.

In elections in England, Scotland and Wales UKIP is consistently being beaten by the BNP. In the Sedgefield parliamentary by-election UKIP got only 1.9% of the vote, compared to the BNP’s 8.9%. At local level UKIP is currently averaging only 6% of the vote, compared to 16% for the BNP. The British National Party is now Britain’s fourth largest party, and it is growing! UKIP, meanwhile, under Nigel Farrage’s leadership, is going backwards.

UKIP’s members, including some at the highest levels, are also very unhappy with the political direction of the party. In April this year UKIP signed up to a European declaration supporting ‘subsidiarity’ rather than withdrawal from the EU. Accepting the principle of subsidiarity necessarily means accepting the authority and legitimacy of the EU.

Click here to see the declaration signed by UKIP proposing ‘subsidiarity’, not withdrawal

Here in the BNP we are unequivocal in our opposition to Britain’s loss of sovereignty which membership of the EU implies. UKIP, it seems, are watering down their position. If you are genuinely opposed to the EU superstate you now know that there is only one party that you can trust: the BNP.

Why has UKIP suddenly abandoned its principles? Roger Knapman, former UKIP leader and one of its dwindling band of MEPs wrote a letter to UKIP’s National Executive Committee stating “I am now very worried that …. the attractions of the European Parliament as a career may beckon to some; where the delights of plush new office suites, Brussels titles and internal parliament or IndDem Group politics are more attractive than our original purpose”.

Click here to read Roger Knapmans' letter in full

While Roger Knapman is clearly a man who believes in sticking to his principles, his party appears to be ‘going native’. No wonder more and more decent, patriotic UKIP members are joining the BNP – including some of their former parliamentary candidates – where they are receiving a very warm welcome and are finding many new friends (as well as meeting up again with several old ones who have also switched to the BNP!).

It is not surprising therefore that the BNP welcoming team was warmly received by the vast majority of the UKIP conference-goers. Unfortunately a few of their younger, more immature, members were clearly afraid of the BNP message and feared that it might prove attractive to the disillusioned UKIP membership, and they therefore became hysterical and aggressive. They started ranting and screaming, and even tried snatching our leaflets out of the hands of the UKIP delegates (they didn’t, of course, have the courage to confront us directly!), tearing them up and throwing them on the pavement.

This thuggish activity was clearly illegal as it constituted both threatening behaviour and littering. Fortunately UKIP ex-leader Roger Knapman, senior UKIPer Christopher Luke, and UKIP's political adviser are all old friends of Chris Forster, the BNP's Richmond & Kingston Organiser. After a few words of wisdom , Roger Knapman took Chris' advice and dragged the embarrassing childish yobs inside the venue. No doubt they were made to write out a hundred times ‘I will not act like a degenerate thug again’ made to stand in the corner and then sent to bed without any supper!


Chris Forster greeting UKIP delegates with the BNP message of hope

These young UKIP thugs were very much the exception, however, and the truth is that UKIP and the British National Party have a lot in common. Both parties are made up of decent, ordinary, traditional, patriotic men and women. Both parties are opposed to Brit