Back in business
posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 08:36
Sorry for my silence over the last few days but I can assure you that it wasn't because I was doing nothing. A holiday can wait. No, last week I was busy putting together our post election issue of Searchlight and also a 16-page special on the Battle for Barking & Dagenham. I'm quite pleased with it, not least because it is a fantastic reminder of our campaign.
The BNP is struggling and Nick Griffin's position as leader is in question. I'll be exploring more of this over the next day or two but in the meantime here's a report into the UK elections on US National Public Radio:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=41984
Click download on the UK Election Analysis heading.
Posted: 18 May 2010 | There are 2 comments
Comments
Comment 1 | From: Glen D'Souza | Date: 19 May 2010, 07:13
Nick You deserve a new holiday after all the work you did to stop the bnp! I reckon they will be too busy licking their wounds until the next round of local elections next year. Looking at May 6th local election results the bnp vote fell by more in the North West than in Yorkshire. I suspect if Nick Griffin can hold on as their leader, he will elbow Andrew Brons aside to get reelected to the European parliament. Certainly Yorkshire is by far the region most likely to continue elect bnp euro-meps. I watched the all the regional BBC Sunday Politics Shows and the tone and comments on immigration in Yorkshire were the most negative. In one Yorkshire show Andrew Brons seemed to blend in with politicians from other parties with no one challenging him; this contrasted with the response to bnp representatives in other regions! I will analyse this in detail ward by ward in June and share my observations with you. Congratulations! Glen
Comment 2 | From: Jason Hunter | Date: 24 May 2010, 11:43
An absolutely fantastic result in Barking & Dagenham, and overall. A true testament to a brilliant campaign. Well done to all concerned. What is particularly significant is that all the factors which made for BNP success elsewhere; deprivation, pace of demographic change and failure of resources to keep up, housing problems, deindustrialisation and problems with local democracy and perceived failure to deliver before the BNP came along appeared far more pronounced in this area than in other areas. That is partly why such a total victory was so unexpected. This suggests that with the right effort and mobilisation, effectively a revolutionisation of local campaigns,we should be able to beat them anywhere. It is possible the BNP will realise this and will demoralise them for years to come. However, more likely it demonstrates the need for translating the lessons of success to other areas in 2011. Jason Hunter, Burnley.
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