Campaigning in vain?

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Monday, 19 January 2009, 06:37

It has been another busy weekend on the campaign trail, with much of the focus being on two key by-elections. Twenty-five anti-fascist activists delivered 4,000 leaflets in the East Wickham ward in Bexley, and a slightly higher number were out in Hyde Newton, in Tameside.

BNP leader Nick Griffin was supposed to be East Wickham, with the party’s Lie Lorry, but neither were seen. Up in Hyde Newton, the BNP were delivering free copies of the party newspaper to every household, but given that we only saw three activists out on Sunday, and that included the candidate, they still have a lot of work to do.

Perhaps the rest of the local BNP were choking on their cornflakes at the report in The Observer that one in ten children were now mixed-race (

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/18/race-integration-study)

. The study, carried out by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Essex University, claimed that the face of Britain was changing dramatically, with some ethnic groups, starting with Afro-Caribbean, disappearing altogether. The report concluded that future generations "will not see race in the way we see it".

If this is the case then perhaps the BNP is campaigning in vain.