Ugly prospect for British politics.

[nbarrett100]

East Wickham ward in Bexley JAN 2009 By-election

Conservative 798
BNP 790!
Labour 700
LibDems 564
English Democrats 128

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2009/feb/04/bnp-far-right-london

Its only a local By-election but its still an election

For any confused non-UK readers, the BNP (British National Party) are as far right as you can be without swastikas and the leader, Nick Griffin was a holocaust denier.

 

[Möbiµs]

There is definitely a wave of radical rightwing politics sweeping through Europe ATM. Here in Sweden, the "Sweden-Democrats" (a Nazi party) has - according to many polls, roughly a 5% support percentage from the Swedes. Not to mention the recent Russian hate crime boom.

An ugly prospect indeed.

 

[Mazzerkhan]

I am very disturbed by this, it has been building for the last 18 months..what really worries me is that moderate people tend not to vote whist the people on the extremes do. Nick Griffen makes my skin crawl. I am worried that they will get some MEPs on June 12th.

 

[nbarrett100]

I am very disturbed by this, it has been building for the last 18 months..what really worries me is that moderate people tend not to vote whist the people on the extremes do. Nick Griffen makes my skin crawl. I am worried that they will get some MEPs on June 12th.

Your right, elections like this get very low turnouts and the BNP are good at rallying support and with the increasing discontent for both main party's there usual voters will not vote in great numbers.

I don't really want to vote Labour but I might just to keep the BNP out.

 

[Otokogoroshi]

All very unpleasant. It's probably a backlash, much like the recent election here in America, but based more closely on local politics that I don't know the nuances about and certainly the financial problems plaguing everyone.

 

[nbarrett100]

Hitler took power in a financial crisis

 

[Mazzerkhan]

A worring trend is the number of conservatives who are pissed off with second hand car sales man Dave C. I used to post comments on the independent (newspaper) boards but have stopped becuase they've been taken over by the BNP. Oto is right about them taking advantage of the Credit crunch however if we actually had a viable oppostion party they wouldn't have picked up so many new recruits.