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Lead story, at the time of writing this, on the BNP main site today - offtopic, but we'd better hope the site is a work in progress, currently it looks like something a schoolkid would knock out for his homework and be chuffed when awarded a D+ grade - is the interesting "Spread the Word - Social Networking" story.

It's a guide to spreading the message through, you guessed it, social networking sites. A good enough cause, us nationalists should be taking advantage of every resource offered online after all.

In fact, it appears someone thought it so important that it was sent out as a mass email as well. Rare these days to get one of those that doesn't scream DONATE every other line or in big text at the end.

Among the advice, we're told to follow the BNP, Simon Darby, Nick Griffin, and Solidarity on Twitter. In case we're not on Twitter, we can also like Nick and Solidarity on Facebook. Yay. Not a mention of Andrew Brons of course.

Simon Darbys Twitter is immediately interesting for the leading Tweet. One wonders how long this will be left at the top of the list.

"Six minutes of your time please.: [Link Removed]" it reads.

Clicking it, we end up on an article on Simon Darbys blog containing a six minute promotional video for Nick Griffin called "The Only Leader", along with a worshipful eulogy about Nick.

Coincidental timing just as that social networking story becomes lead story on site, and as we all get sent a mass email in case we missed it, or a way to skate around leadership challenge rules about promotion?

You decide, but it's a effective and none to subtle way to direct extra traffic and viewers to an unofficial promo video and to one side of the challenge.

Slightly offtopic, what an awful - or awfully coincidental - time to pick to redesign the website, smack in the middle of a leadership election challenge. The index page is atrocious, there's no obvious way to get to older articles without using search, and it has 2 "Home" buttons which go to different URLs with different versions of the same page.

Why on earth rush out an utterly unfinished and atrociously implemented site overhaul at a time like this? And, if you must, at least don't build it live and in situ, there are other ways, most of these bugs and flaws should have been gone before the public even saw the overhaul.

Oh, and the static top banner now goes to Nicks MEP page to advertise the "Out of the EU" campaign, Andrew gets a text link if you hover the 'Links' button.

Total speculation again, but if that "50 reasons" smear email does get proven to have been sent via the BNP servers, want to bet on whether we'll get told the servers were compromised during the overhaul and nasty hackers did it, or something to that effect?