Talk of suggesting griffin should stand down must be a wind up. I know its a very contentious issue, and believe me when the griffmiester f-cks things up I dont hold back in saying so. Im an independant Nationalist that way. However, the growth of the BNP which has been recognised as the fastest growing political party in the country happened under Griffins watch, and it seems he was dead right to push a broom though the cloakrooms because from the outside its forged ahead nicely since that point.   If anyone has seen Nick in action lately, especially that Sky News interview, they will know that nobody else comes close to handling that so professionally and so sharply. He put the point of ethnocentricity of the membership accross very well too, amongst other things.   The only mistake the BNP might have made is growing too quickly too soon - we should have been at this point 15 to 20 years ago, but we werent. The media have been going into a frenzy about this supposed backlash against scandals in the Labour and Conservative party expenses, the media have hyped up the threat of the BNP getting votes, they alone have pumped water in the chicken fillet of politics to make it look juicier and meatier than it actually ever was, and the BNP have perhaps fallen into the trap of having to go along with it - for both expecting things to actually happen, and for the image of making supporters and the public believe it can happen. It has to be done to make people see you as viable and winning. But at the same time, I think we all should have learnt from bitter experience that we arent going to live up the hyped expectations - especially after the most intense media hatchet job seasons that I can ever remember in the last 7 years. Three or four times a day, every day for the last month we have seen BNP stories in most major outlets from the News Of the World to the Spectator, and thousands of local rags up and down the land. These people have spent millions (probably funded by the taxpayers in some way another) on this campaign against the party. Perhaps their need to be so aggressive shows we are doing something right, not wrong.   I dont think Griffin is admitting defeat of anything, but perhaps he is finally coming down from the media frenzy thats bubbled alongside us for the last few weeks, and is rightly being cautious about whether we will get a Euro MP or not. I always thought more than two was too much to expect, one seat if we are lucky. We might just scrape in there, but then again we may narrowly miss out to the fasle-party of UKIP and the morons who voted Green that buy into the falsehood that they give a rats ass about the environment on the back of the again media induced climate change issues.  I will be very saddened if we dont get in, but I will have to take comfort that we are still pushing forward pretty well, and the quiet revolution will have to continue a bit longer. Getting second places and first places anywhere is a giant leap in itself over the last 5 or 6 years. It wasnt so long ago we were celebrating coming 4th or picking up a low hundreds vote. We have reached the point where we can field candidates in a lot of seats, in the hundreds rather than handfulls, and keep deposits.....we have reached the point where people are willing to stand and openly declare a vote for us, we are keeping seats to a good degree, we have seen the internals of the BNP structure change to give more delegation and thus spokesmen on certain political aspects, we have probably all seen the video of the call centers and leaflet factories and it shows more professionalism. The party has one of the most visited political sites in the country, and BNPtv is a valuable asset now - which again, 5 or 6 years ago was a pipe dream.   Theres a lot be said for all this, even if we dont make it this time.   We do need to brace ourselves for defeat, it is a possibility.   TF  Griffin should continue to lead if anything simply because we have no one else who can(and yes he is great with the media, far better than any nationalist  ever ). But that's something to despair about in nationalism, we need more leaders to come to the fore.