I followed your link. As if Burnley were the only town that had a football team and also an established hostile presence :rolleyes: but that was from the 2nd August. Am I to see this as a continuation of a potentially ruinous tit-for-tat conflict between the BNP and the EFP? :(  My question was: has there been any offical comment from the BNP leadership as to why on 10th June there was a late BNP entrant to the Meadowcroft ward in the Burnley District Council election?   Other wards went uncontested, and as there was another nationalist candidate standing, the seat was certain to be lost to them both.  Also, given his withdrawal from the Euro elections, Cotterrill could reasonably have expected a clear run in Meadowcroft, which the BNP had had no plans to contest. As far as I know there was no official reason given to why the BNP decided to stand, as I said in an earlier post in this thread we can only speculate. I personally dont think theres some sort of nationalist conspiracy but rather some BNP guy decided to stand and nothing more.