Yorkshire fascist wins council seats – but without an election

6 April 2025 by Mark Scholl

Frank Calladine, British Democrat fascist takes council seats without an election

A huge victory! A stunning success! Total vindication of our strategy! Yes!

Set up by ageing nazis whose political careers have been characterised by hideous extremism, bigotry, Holocaust denial, conspiracy-mongering and a good deal more, the BNP Retirement Division, otherwise known as the British Democrats, where older bigots go to die, has actually won something.

Two for one deal

But there’s even more. It’s a two for one deal.

Confused? You might be. We were amused, though underwhelmed, by the news, trumpeted home and abroad, that the British Democrats had won seats on two local parish councils in Yorkshire.

Tomorrow We Live! We are the coming storm!

Gun salesman

Turns out that gun salesman Frank ‘Butch’ Calladine, the BD’s Doncaster number one with a bullet, has swept to power not by fighting elections, but merely by filling in forms.

Other local political operators, obviously far less astute than 9-mm Frank, will no doubt shudder in fear as he takes his seat – if there is one – as a representative of East Ward on Sprotborough and Cusworth Parish Council, and Scawsby Ward on nearby Brodsworth Parish Council.

In reality, of course, there’s no power, or authority, or (it’s argued elsewhere on the far right) very much point giving time to such activities. Won’t bring about the Great White Awakening, you see. You’ll just spend lots of time engaging with issues around park benches and dog poo.

No elections

So, what happened? Well, Frank filled in nomination forms for both parish councils. And that was it.

No elections. No need to bother the voters at all.

There were too many seats and not enough candidates. So he snuck in unelected and now the residents of these wards on the two parish councils are ‘represented’ by a man who is ‘something in the gun trade’ and whose political mentors are aged nazis who deny the Holocaust and, in the case of their party President Andrew Brons, believe that arson attacks on synagogues are ‘well intentioned.

Andrew Brons, for whom synagogue bombers 'were well intentioned' — Andrew Brons, British Democrats President, for whom synagogue bombers were ‘well intentioned’

In 1965 Brons sent a letter to fellow nazi Françoise Dior, wife of NSM Fuhrer Colin Jordan, about a 'well-intentioned' comrade who intended to bomb synagogues — Andrew Brons, British Democrats President, for whom synagogue bombers were ‘well intentioned’

We are sure that, apprised of the situation, local electors might well have something to say about this.

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