THE British National Party was declared “dead” yesterday after former fascist frontman Nick Griffin was booted out. 

BNP’s unpopular ex-leader was expelled from the racist party on Wednesday after its new leadership accused him of plotting to overthrow them. 

The final nail was hammered into his political coffin months after voters ditched him as a Euro MP in May. 

And Hope Not Hate anti-fascist expert Matthew Collins declared the BNP “dead in the water.”

He told the Morning Star: “It has no political future whatsoever and neither does anyone involved in the party. Ukip has just killed them. 

“In terms of it building a nationalist movement that can challenge power — it’s never going to happen. Not for another generation. 

“The fight now is over the party’s income.”

Factions within the broken party are due to fight it out for control over of its remaining assets at its conference in Blackpool. 

But even that could now be called off. 

The Morning Star understands humiliated Mr Griffin has spent the week in Brussels begging the European Parliament to payout his redundancy cash, worth at least £40,000. 

He has been frustrated though after a debt recovery company wrote to Parliament officials informing them that Mr Griffin is dodging them. 

His pleas of poverty come despite the villas he owns in Croatia, Italy and Hungary.

Mr Collins explained his desperation may motivate him to stage a renewed claim on the BNP when it holds compulsory leadership elections next July. 

Mr Griffin’s greatest moment came in June 2009 when he narrowly claimed one of north-west England’s nine European Parliament seats.

The BBC sparked fury three months later when it gave his fascist views a platform on Question Time. 

But his disastrous attempt to popularise racism sparked a five year spiral of decline that culminated in his expulsion from the BNP. 

Unite Against Fascism spokesman Weyman Bennett said it was a final irony that he was expelled for being “divisive.”

He said: “He tried to divide Britain between black and white, Jews against gentile, Muslim against Christian and attack LGBT people.

“He failed because we came together and defeated him.”