The matter that you raise is covered by Regulation 5 of the Local Elections (Principal Areas) ( England and Wales ) Rules 2006, and by Section 28B of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
You may wish to consider whether you want to launch an election petition if the candidate is elected, and you will need to take your own legal advice in that matter. It would not be appropriate for the Returning Officer to give you such advice.
You have the right to inspect the nomination papers up to the day before polling day.
Is this right ? Is there any BNP election officers who could investigate this ?
Look at the "standing for a political party" section on pages 26 and 27 of this electoral commission booklet:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/83331/057-Candidates-Agents-Local-Elections-2010-final-web.pdf
It clearly states that candidates are only allowed to use the exact party name or a registered description. What is written on the nomination paper must be an exact match.
The description of "Britain First UK Independence Party" is neither of these.
Look what point 2.71 says:
2.71 If the party name/description included on the nomination paper is not an exact
match, the whole nomination paper will be invalid.
Send this to the returning officer and see if they can argue their way out of that one.