Regrettably, those of us who have attended the vote verifications have seen for ourselves the shocking absence of BNP votes. In truth, it was pretty obvious the media smears had worked as intended. There was a distinct collapse of morale among many activists in the last few weeks - it just goes to show that there is no true democracy in this land when the media can control the result of elections to such an extent.  Some of us hoped the people would be bright enough to see through the media smears, but sadly they are not: we were just deluding ourselves.  I don't even think we should contest the next euro election, just concentrate on local and general elections.