Eddy O’Sullivan At The BBC’s Mayoral Debate, Media City Salford. Eddy Shoots And Scores A Winner! Labour Reject Hits The Back Of His Own Net!

Salford BNP With Mayoral Candidate Eddy O'Sullivan

Thursday 27th April 2012 was a very busy media day for the British National Party’s mayoral candidate in Salford, Eddy O’Sullivan.

First off was a visit to the studios of Salford City Radio in the University building based at Media City at Salford Quays. Eddy had been invited to appear on the Brian Minor show. There are ten candidates all told with the usual suspects representing Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and a Green. There are also representatives from UKIP, English Democrats, Community Action Party and a couple of independents. Brian Minor was courteous and professional and kept the show rolling along with questions that had been phoned in by listeners.

The format was that three of the candidates at a time were brought in to put their cases forward followed by a Q&A session. Eddy was accompanied by an Independent and was also supposed to be joined by the Community Action Party candidate who failed to appear for reasons known only to himself. Although the programme wasn’t a live phone in the questions that were asked provided an excellent platform for Eddy to get his message out and he skilfully made good use of the time allotted.

Salford Radio 94.4FM Eddy In Studio

Next up was another visit to the BBC Greater Manchester Radio at Media City. This time in order to attend ‘The Mayoral Candidate Debate’. This was an hour and a half programme hosted and very ably chaired by the BBC’s Alan Beswick in the BBC’s Philharmonic Hall. There was also an invited audience of around two hundred people.

As the program started it emerged that the Labour Party candidate, failed ex-MP Ian Stuart, had contacted the BBC to tell them that he would not attend if Eddy O’Sullivan was allowed to be on the programme. This attempt at blackmail resulted in the most spectacular own goal when the BBC informed Mr Stuart that the BBC would not be dictated to by the Labour Party and that Eddy O’Sullivan and the British National Party are very welcome to attend and that he is not. You can only wonder what Labour is afraid of and what they hoped to achieve with this ridiculous act of cowardice.

BBC Debate, 95.1 FM

The BBC’s Arif Ansari insisted on reading out a prepared statement from Stuart which was full of Bigotry and which called the members present the most disgusting and obnoxious names which will not be reported here. Mr. Stuart… if the only way you can put forth your argument is by means of a vile rantings and calling people disgusting names, in absentia, then you do not have an argument at all do you? And all this from a safe distance… really Mr. Stuart. Tut tut tut! Eddy’s response was ‘Mr Stuart should be more tolerant.’

Each candidate was allowed one minute to put their cases forward and then the audience were let loose to ask questions of the candidates about issues that concern them. The very first question asked was ‘why do immigrants get council houses before the British are even considered?’ This question wasn't asked by any of The British National Party members in the audience. It was asked by a concerned Salfordian. Eddy’s answer was the only one that made any sense. Eddy stated that he would remove the unfair bidding system that exists at the moment and replace it with a points based system that would benefit local people first. This produced cheers and thunderous applause from the audience. All the other candidates said that the problem doesn't exist and so the question is irrelevant. This provoked a storm of outrage from the audience who told the other candidates that the problem actually does exist and reinforced their outrage with real life examples from their own experiences. The chair had a busy time moderating that one!

From then on the tone was set for the evening and Eddy was confident, eloquent and forceful in getting the message out. The British National Party members in attendance did a fantastic job in being vociferous in their support for Eddy and the final word went to a British National Party member and candidate for Weaste Tommy Williams.

BBC Media City BNP Eddy O'Sullivan

The chair, Alan Beswick, asked the audience a final question: ‘what is the one thing that they would like to be done that would make Salford a better city to live in?’

Tommy Williams was selected to answer that one and his answer? ‘GET LABOUR OUT!’. Huge cheers and applause for that one from everyone in the hall including from all the candidates and a hugely successful day for Eddy and the British National Party.

Both radio interviews can be heard by clicking links below

Salford Radio 94.4 FM Click to listen

BBC Greater Manchester 95.1 FM Click to listen