Black Country decline

posted by: Nick L | on: Friday, 2 May 2008, 09:01

It is fitting that in the fortieth anniversary of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, and all the accompanying lurid media stories that went with it, the BNP's vote in the Black Country declined.

As previously reported, the BNP vote in Sandwell fell from a 33% average in 2006 to just 17.4% today.

In neighbouring Dudley, the BNP average vote has collapsed from 26.5% in 2006 to just 14.7% this year. There was only one ward, in the 10 contested, in which the BNP vote was higher than last year.

I hope the editorial policy unit at the BBC, which has led the Enoch Powell remembrance society, is taking stock at these results. Again, more on the appalling BBC approach in the May edition of Searchlight.