BNP no show in Sandwell
posted by: Nick L | on: Thursday, 1 May 2008, 21:44
In 2006 the BNP averaged 33% in the nine wards it contested in Sandwell, making it second srongest BNP area after Barking & Dagenham. How times seem to have changed. Since 2006 BNP fortunes have slipped and during this election there was very little activity.
This was mirrored today when, for the first time in years, there was not even the obligatory speaker van touring the streets annoying local people. Beyond a handful of posters in windows there was no sign of the BNP.
Is this a good sign? Let's hope so. Fortunately we won't have to wait too long as our Searchlight correspondent will be reporting in from the count tonight.
Posted: 1 May 2008 | There are 2 comments
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Comment 1 | From: bob | Date: 1 May 2008, 21:53
good news, lets hope it bodes well for the night ahead
Comment 2 | From: geschuddz | Date: 1 May 2008, 22:21
I echo Bob. I was born and brought up in Smethwick and it's greatest strength is it's people. Something which the nazi BNP wish to split up along lines of race, religion, sexuality and create a rather anti-British apartheid. So I'm glad and with a bit of luck, Sandwell will be nazi-free before too long.
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