If I win my election, you will have an ally

The Tory is reportedly seen revealing his astonishing plan for the far right group to then call it off so he can take the credit.

The first conversation was recorded on March 16 at Indian restaurant Celebrity in Birmingham, which included EDL chairman Steve Eddowes and former leader of the EDL Tommy Robinson. Mr Amin reportedly expanded on his plot in a phone call with Mr Robinson on Wednesday.

March 16

Afzal Amin to Steve Eddowes:

My idea is this and I've discussed it with Tommy and lots of other people.

If I could demonstrate to the people in Dudley that I can be a positive voice for community cohesion, for development, for campaigning against the evils and the terrorism and the child grooming and all the rest of it, then that would help me a lot in the forthcoming election.

One way of doing that is, if you were to announce the second march, say early May, about the mosque.

And then we have two meetings with the chief of police, members of the Muslim community, we all play our roles.

You say: "Yeah, we're going to do a march" they say, "No, no don't march today".

We have a second meeting where things are a bit calmer. Then at the third one, we have a press conference where you say: "We were going to do a march. The chief police asked Afzal Amin – former army officer, members of the Muslim community, have sat together and realised we want to campaign about these things.

"We're going to work closer together to address these evils in our society and we want the rest of the country to pay attention to this model of working to avoid conflict and bloodshed."

Steve Eddowes: I don't need the credit.

AA: I'm just saying, they are going to think how has this happened, so when you say as the chairman my political philosophy is that negotiation, discussion, people will listen. The second thing it will achieve is that the issues you want to campaign against, nationally, people will think there is a better model for dealing with them than we have had so far.

And the third thing it's achieved is, if I win my election, in Parliament, you've got a strong, unshakeable ally who is going to work hard to get you the exposure you need.

It's like I said from the very beginning, 95 per cent of what you want to campaign against, we're with you.

Because I would love to arrive in Parliament and say, I won this seat because (of) you 3,000 white working class English voters that have never voted before.

If you manage to pull this off and I arrive in Parliament with the 3,000, 4,000 voters, I'd say to David Cameron, I've won this seat because we've reached out with our network to these people and heard their views.

Their views are, they don't want to see mega mosques in Dudley.

Everyone is very, very happy. EDL have become reasonable… Afzal Amin to deliver the resolution.

SE: So the EDL benefits from this in what way?

AA: You get a strong, unshakeable ally, who will ring you and people you want to – whose voices you want to see heard into the mainstream...

TR: Where do you think you can get?

AA: I think I can get to the top.

SE: You're aiming for Cameron's seat then?

AA: To go from Smethwick to Sandhurst is a massive jump. As far as I know I'm the only person that managed it.

March 18

AA: Yeah we're very happy to proceed. What did Eddowes say?

TR: Eddowes will do it.

AA: Great.

TR: It's just when and how.

TR: …So when do you want Eddowes to announce his for?

AA: Second of May.

AA: Of course, yeah.

TR: Andy knows everyone in all those areas. It's just Eddowes doesn't know what he's offering and what he's actually putting to them, how many days… he's not aware of what he can say to them, who's paying them.

AA: We can't pay them.

TR: You can't pay them. OK.

AA: That will be illegal.

TR: That's OK. So I'll pay them and we'll sort something out between me and you.

AA: …The EDL, we are going to march again on the 2nd of May. Once that's announced in about two days' time, we'll arrange the first meeting between the chief of police, Eddowes, couple of local Muslim lads that you've already met.

We'll have a second meeting and the third one will be a press conference, and we'll announce that we're not going to have it.

TR: OK, cool.