Local elections in UK

[RedGeorge]

New Labour got a drubbing. The Lib Dems didn't really do very well. The Conservatives did really quite well. The BNP doubled their number of council seats to about 13. Respect picked up a few seats in London (Tower Hamlets), and one in Birmingham. That's about it, really. Oh, and Blair has reshuffled his cabinet, yet all the same faces remain, only in different positions...

[patrickbeverley]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2006, 05:40 PM
The BNP doubled their number of council seats to about 13.
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and cry because ignorance still exists" -Urban Guerrilla
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[YKTMX]

The BNP won about 24 seats last night actually, taking their total to about 44 in the country.

Respect won 12 seats in Tower Hamlets and one in Birmingham. Another strong Respect area, Newham, hasn't got round to counting its votes yet. :rolleyes:

[bolshevik butcher]

So the facists gained twice as many seats as the great new hope for socilism? Also the BNP gained eleven in one council which was very worrying. It was rpedictable labour would get a grubbing.

[YKTMX]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 5 2006, 05:02 PM
So the facists gained twice as many seats as the great new hope for socilism?
It was the first time Respect had stood in many of these places. Go to the Respect website and you'll see how respectable the vote was, and how much better it was than any of the sects have ever managed.

As for the Nazis, their vote was worrying. But with the stupid comments Margaret Hodge made and the headlines about foreign criminals, it was hardly surprising.

[bolshevik butcher]

For sure the BNPs great at running a campaign in a paticualr area on a populis issue. I think the real issue is what the BNP does on the grounds and the way they set working class communities agianst each other.

[The Grey Blur]

That is fucking pathetic. I demand all Socialist organise themselves da fuck to beat the shits out of the Nazis

[Wanted Man]

It's just elections. -_- I mean, the turnout was what? 36%? Nobody gives a fuck.

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2006, 09:21 PM
It's just elections. -_- I mean, the turnout was what? 36%? Nobody gives a fuck.
Of which 2 or 3 percent or Nazis, still pretty bad in my opinion

[patrickbeverley]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 5 2006, 06:02 PM
So the facists gained twice as many seats as the great new hope for socilism?
<_< Sorry, what great new hope for socialism would that be?

[The Grey Blur]

The Respec&#39; (Booyakasha) Party

Galloway&#39;s party - YKTMX is a loyal follower ;)

[Matty_UK]

Thing is the far leftist movement is far bigger than the far rightist, but the left think for themselves and splinter off in all different directions; the far right stick together like flies to a shit and all vote for one party as they love to rally under leadership so much.

[Red Polak]

Originally posted by Permanent [email protected] 5 2006, 10:40 PM
The Respec&#39; (Booyakasha) Party
Doesn&#39;t that mean "death to the white man" or something?


On the BNP: they did a damn sight better than I expected them to. And Labour did quite a lot worse than I thought - at least it&#39;s a sign that people are fed up with Labour to the extent that they&#39;d even vote for the BNP.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote...egion_99999.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2006/locals/html/region_99999.stm)

The results.

[Red Polak]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2006, 10:46 PM
Thing is the far leftist movement is far bigger than the far rightist, but the left think for themselves and splinter off in all different directions; the far right stick together like flies to a shit and all vote for one party as they love to rally under leadership so much.
The right is in factions in much the same way as the left; BNP, BPP, N9S, WNP, BNSM, EFP, FP, NF, NBP, NA...