Newcastle NF chief, Kenneth Thomas Booth, failed to enter his party for the Walker (East Newcastle) bye-election on September 4th.
Booth, a member of the NF’s National Directorate and organiser of one of its few functioning branches in the country, was behind the NF’s North Tyneside Mayoral campaign in June when the NF held its deposit.
Cock-a-hoop at not losing their £500, Booth gave the impression that the NF would contest any and every bye election in the North-east. Clearly the NF is not capable of doing this and Booth seems happier designing pretty flags for use on the NF websites.
There has been some sporadic NF activity e.g. Booth and a handful of his travelling circus were in Hexham town centre on Saturday, 26th July.
Contesting Walker for the BNP is Jonathan Keys of St. John’s Road, Benwell.
Keys is back in court later this month to find out how much he will have to pay to those Benwell Labour Councillors whom he libelled in the course of the May local elections. One can only hope that Jonathan will be more temperate in what he includes in his leaflets this time around.
At the same time, we are sure that those of his comrades who have come into money within the past year will do the decent thing.
BNP councillor for Lanehead ward in Burnley, was convicted of using threatening words and behaviour outside a Burnley pub. His offence took place on the day the Burnley Clarets lost 2-0 to Manchester United in the Worthington Cup – December 3rd 2002. 
Smith is not alone in maintaining a lifestyle of public disorder and BNP activism. Another local hooligan, a member of Burnley’s soccer hooligan firm, the Burnley Suicide Squad, has recently been convicted of the killing of a 17 year old Nottingham Forest fan, Nathan Shaw. 
local council for the BNP, who’s local organiser, Steve Smith (Luke Smith’s uncle), is a convicted electoral fraudster. The fraud was perpetrated in Burnley during the May elections in 2001, and involved six BNP council candidates. A number of local people denied having signed BNP candidate’s nomination papers and the candidates were then excluded. Steve Smith was later sent to prison for three months for his involvement in the fraud.