BNP Takes “Safest Labour Ward” in Kent

[chimneys]

Living in Sevenoaks I was shocked to read this thread!! Didnt even know Swanley came under Sevenoaks DC.

Have checked and the seat the BNP won is 6 miles from the ultra Tory Sevenoaks right on the periphery of the borough. Worlds apart- Dyke Road Avenue versus Moulscoombe (no offense meant just setting the scene).

Clearly BNP spin to try to look as though they are conquering middle England. No chance of the BNP getting a better foothold than that (the recent list of BNP members had 9 in the whole of Sevenoaks!).

Wouldnt be much point in them making more of an effort in Sevenoaks-as Anglo Saxon/affluent as could be.

Not trumpeting Sevenoaks (its a safe, fairly boring City commuter town full of Banker Ruperts and Henrys), but just setting the record straight.

 

[Dandyman]

Living in Sevenoaks I was shocked to read this thread!! Didnt even know Swanley came under Sevenoaks DC.

Have checked and the seat the BNP won is 6 miles from the ultra Tory Sevenoaks right on the periphery of the borough. Worlds apart- Dyke Road Avenue versus Moulscoombe (no offense meant just setting the scene).

Clearly BNP spin to try to look as though they are conquering middle England. No chance of the BNP getting a better foothold than that (the recent list of BNP members had 9 in the whole of Sevenoaks!).

Wouldnt be much point in them making more of an effort in Sevenoaks-as Anglo Saxon/affluent as could be.

Not trumpeting Sevenoaks (its a safe, fairly boring City commuter town full of Banker Ruperts and Henrys), but just setting the record straight.

Sounds fair enough. We'll see if this is anything more than a protest vote. The BNP have a record of winning council seats on low turnouts and then losing them once people rumble that they are as incompetent as they are obnoxious.

 

[The Large One]

408 votes. It's hardly significant is it. The candidate probably just rounded up his mates families and got them all vote.

Have the BNP ever got more than 20% of the vote in a Parliamentary consitiuency?

16.9% in Barking, 2005.

 

[chimneys]

They are becoming much more professional in their approach. Interesting to note that this victory came in a ward they had not contested before.

Pretty pointless of them I reckon as BHA has more chance of winning the Champions League in the next 5 years than the BNP has of influencing decision making at Sevenoaks DC!

A publicity stunt, that is all!

 

[User removed 4]

Not trumpeting Sevenoaks (its a safe, fairly boring City commuter town full of Banker Ruperts and Henrys)

what type are you then ?

 

[Pavilionaire]

The facts of the matter is when the BNP do well it is nothing more than a protest vote by ordinary people to kick the mainstream politicians up the arse.

What is the alternative to these voters, most of whom will be at the sharp end of the credit crunch and feel let down by both parties?

The politicans always miss the point about results like this, going on about how we mustn't see the rise of racism when everybody knows full it is merely a show of voter disaffection. And comparisons with the Nazi Party in the 1920s are laughable.

 

[Skint Gull]

I think they got 13% in Burnley in the last GE, amid an atmosphere of simmering racial tension.

It doesn't say much for the major parties if so many people feel sufficiently suckered into voting for a crappy, racist party run by simpletons.

In all honesty, having worked in Burnley a few times now I can honestly say I'm surprised the BNP vote wasn't higher. Crappy, racist and run by simpletons sums the town up nicely. Even the people who are well educated are racist

 

[coventrygull]

Pretty pointless of them I reckon as BHA has more chance of winning the Champions League in the next 5 years than the BNP has of influencing decision making at Sevenoaks DC!

A publicity stunt, that is all!

There was me thinking it was an election

 

[User removed 4]

In all honesty, having worked in Burnley a few times now I can honestly say I'm surprised the BNP vote wasn't higher. Crappy, racist and run by simpletons sums the town up nicely. Even the people who are well educated are racist

and you never stop to wonder why ?? course not ,you get to go back to eastbourne .

 

[The Spanish]

In the interest of balance further up the road suspected rapist and knife wielding thug Dwayne Brooks has just won a seat on Lewisham council on a thinly disguised race ticket.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

i think you would have to be a bit naive to discount the BNP with the current trends in the UK at the moment , I'm not saying they would make major inroads but there are quite a few people out there who are fed up and will see the BNP as the way to voice their opinions

 

[Chicken Runner61]

i think you would have to be a bit naive to discount the BNP with the current trends in the UK at the moment , I'm not saying they would make major inroads but there are quite a few people out there who are fed up and will see the BNP as the way to voice their opinions

Dontcha mean you have to be pretty naive to vote BNP unless you are racist.


What you forget is that there are loads of people who would get off their arses and start voting against the BNP if they ever got near to any power.

Those same people are fed up with Labour and Tory etc and just don't bother.

 

[coventrygull]

i think you would have to be a bit naive to discount the BNP with the current trends in the UK at the moment , I'm not saying they would make major inroads but there are quite a few people out there who are fed up and will see the BNP as the way to voice their opinions

Got to wait until June. Now thats the big one for the BNP. Think the media and establishment will go into overdrive before then. Celebs will be pushed off the front pages for a while

 

[User removed 4]

In the interest of balance further up the road suspected rapist and knife wielding thug Dwayne Brooks has just won a seat on Lewisham council on a thinly disguised race ticket.

what do you mean suspected rapist and knife wielding thug ? he was stephen lawrence's friend , surely he is beyond any reproach ?

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Dontcha mean you have to be pretty naive to vote BNP unless you are racist.


What you forget is that there are loads of people who would get off their arses and start voting against the BNP if they ever got near to any power.

Those same people are fed up with Labour and Tory etc and just don't bother.

do you ever go out ??

 

[Pavilionaire]

i think you would have to be a bit naive to discount the BNP with the current trends in the UK at the moment , I'm not saying they would make major inroads but there are quite a few people out there who are fed up and will see the BNP as the way to voice their opinions

It depends what you mean by discount.

I DON'T discount the fact they're always likely to win a few seats in politically sensitive wards, particularly when the two main parties are a joke.

I DO discount the possibility that they will ever become a meaningful force in British politics because politicians underestimate how anti-racist this country has become.

 

[The Spanish]

what do you mean suspected rapist and knife wielding thug ? he was stephen lawrence's friend , surely he is beyond any reproach ?

Operation Black Vote, the impartial non racist and obviously very necessary campaign group attempting to lump countless nationalities and ethnic groups into a political mass, (excluding the indigenous population and other non ethnically African groups) *gasp*, has been championing him relentlessly.

 

[coventrygull]

I DO discount the possibility that they will ever become a meaningful force in British politics because politicians underestimate how anti-racist this country has become.

Top post of the week. Has given me the best laugh I have had in ages

 

[black night]

well done to the b.n.p .you will fine that they will win more seats all over the uk in 2009.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Top post of the week. Has given me the best laugh I have had in ages

i couldn't work that statement out either??