Eddy Butler
Edward Mark Butler[1] (born in Bloomsbury 13 November 1962) is a former National Elections Officer of the British National Party (BNP) and was dubbed the party's "elections guru" by its newspaper, Voice of Freedom,[2] until being suspended and expelled from the BNP in 2010 by Nick Griffin. He then became a member of the English Democrats before becoming associated with the For Britain Movement.[citation needed]
First BNP tenure
Butler was originally the Tower Hamlets organiser for the National Front but, after having been expelled from that party by Griffin, in 1986, joined the British National Party in the same year.[3] Butler first came to prominence in the early 1990s when he was party organiser in Tower Hamlets. Whilst in charge here Butler masterminded the 'Rights for Whites' campaign, a locally based initiative that sought to highlight supposed council "bias" against the White British. The campaign, which initially presented itself as independent before linking directly to the BNP, was instrumental in building up support for the party in the area, which culminated in the election of Derek Beackon as a councillor in Millwall in 1993.[4]
Butler's success brought him promotion within the party and he was soon appointed National Elections Officer. Whilst in this position, in 1994, he was the victim of a knife attack, allegedly carried out by members of Combat 18.[5] Butler also became closely associated with party 'modernisers' such as Tony Lecomber, Michael Newland and others associated with The Patriot magazine. Butler left the BNP in 1996 only to rejoin in 1998. As a member of the Bloomsbury Forum, Butler was closely linked to the founders of the Freedom Party and joined that party in 2001.[6]
Second BNP tenure
Although appointed as the Freedom Party's Campaign Director, Butler subsequently returned to the BNP in 2003, again as its National Elections Officer, played a part in the party's campaigns in the 2006 local elections.[citation needed] In 2009, he was the party's lead candidate for the European Parliament election in the Eastern region,[7] in which the BNP's party list achieved 6.1% of the vote.[8] He was the party's candidate for Harlow in the 2010 General Election.[9] and also a candidate in Barking and Dagenham in the London borough council elections, held on the same day.
On 18 June 2010, Butler announced that he would challenge the then leader, Nick Griffin, for the leadership (office of national chairman) of the BNP the following month.[citation needed] On 11 August 2010, it was announced that he had not obtained the 840 nominations required to trigger an election.[citation needed]
On 13 October 2010, Butler was expelled from the BNP, allegedly for breaching the party's code of conduct.[10] He was denied a disciplinary tribunal on the grounds that he had less than two years' continuous membership of the party at the time of his alleged offence(s).[citation needed]
English Democrats
On 26 November 2011, Butler joined the English Democrats.[11] He stood for the Loughton Fairmead Ward for the 2012 Epping Forest local elections and gained 97 (12.22) votes, last out of four candidates.[1] At the 2015 general election, he contested Harlow, which he had previously fought for the BNP, polling 115 votes (0.3%).[12]
Elections contested
UK Parliament elections
Date of election | Constituency | Party | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Harlow | BNP | 1,739 | 4.0 |
2015 | Harlow | English Democrats | 115 | 0.3[12] |
European Parliament elections
Year | Region | Party | Votes | % | Results | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | East of England | BNP | 97,013 | 6.1 | Not elected | Multi-member constituency; party list |
References
- ^ a b "Election results for Loughton Fairmead, 3 May 2012". Epping Forest District Council. 3 May 2012.
- ^ "May 3rd 2007: The Campaign Starts Now!" Archived 29 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine article from The Voice of Freedom
- ^ "BNP East Ended- part 4". 14 January 2010. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 55–6
- ^ N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 66
- ^ N. Copsey, Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 69
- ^ "British National Party".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "European Election 2009 | East of England". BBC News.
- ^ "Election Guide 2010 " Harlow". UK Polling Report. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- ^ http://eddybutler.blogspot.com/2010/10/expelled.html Archived 28 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine [user-generated source]
- ^ Wigmore, Tim (12 January 2016). "What killed the BNP?". New Statesman.
- ^ a b BBC News Election 2015: Harlow
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