candidate resigns over bnp link a prospective candidate for the uk independence party ukip has resigned after admitting a brief attachment to the british national partybnp nicholas bettsgreen who had been selected to fight the suffolk coastal seat quit after reports in a newspaper that he attended a bnp meeting the former teacher confirmed he had attended the meeting but said that was the only contact he had with the group mr bettsgreen resigned after being questioned by the party s leadership a ukip spokesman said mr bettsgreen s resignation followed disclosures in the east anglian daily times last month about his attendance at a bnp meeting he did once attend a bnp meeting he did not like what he saw and heard and will take no further part of it the spokesman added a meeting of suffolk coastal ukip members is due to be held next week to discuss a replacement mr bettsgreen of woodbridge suffolk has also resigned as ukip s branch chairman