 Ebanks was the British National Party (BNP) organiser in Birmingham, and was the BNP candidate in Birmingham Erdington in the 2005 general election.She came to wider prominence in the 2006 local elections when she was announced as the winner of a council seat in the Kingstanding ward of Birmingham City Council.While the other 39 wards in Birmingham were each electing a single candidate, in Kingstanding there were two vacancies, as an incumbent councillor in the ward had resigned.