The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
What this move does do in give them a stuctured 3 month period of learning to work on things other than marches or the internet. It gives the serious ones experience in on-the-ground politics, in how to run campaigns, in how to talk to people and work out what appeals to them beyond their current agenda, it gives them time and space to identify who is serious and who is skilled, it gives them a unifying collective thing to work on and build a form of middle level management around who can then go off and try and do similar in their own areas on a smaller scale. Now, i fully expect anything learnt from all the above to ultimately benefit the BNP (under Griffin or not - when he goes there will be an influx i think) rather then the EDL or BFP but nevertheless, even the coming defeat has the potential to have knock-on consequences.
I think each candidate has to cough up £6k so its quite an expensive campaign