An impeccable source has informed me that last Friday (17 September 2010) Simon Bennett formally told Eddy Butler that he was quitting.
Bennett, unquestionably one of Butler's biggest mistakes, seems to have at last understood that he is now the most hated person in BNP ranks and was only damaging Butler's case.
Bennett's official line is apparently that he is "disillusioned with nationalism" and that there is "no hope" but the truth is more likely that the pressure of reality has been building to the point where not even he can deny it anymore: his presence in the BNP reform movement was a disaster.
Doubtless Butler will now try and lure some party officials and members who objected to Bennett's presence and withheld their support from the reform attempt for that reason.
This is however, unlikely to wash as Butler's chronically poor judgment in allowing Bennett to become involved in the first place (particularly after Bennett colluded with the Mirror newspaper in an anti-BNP story) has shown that Butler is as likely to make disastrous strategic decisions as anyone else.
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