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I dont think its the end of the BNP, and it may well be dangerous to think so. We have to be ever vigilant as an animal is at its most dangerous when injured
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The BNP are effectively dead; however, as Niall correctly points out people need to remain cautious about them. IMO, our attention must turn towards the NF. They gained 1,515 in the recent Scottish election; granted, that may not be a staggering figure but it's still a huge increase on the last election - did they even run in 2007?
If you didn't know that they weren't running in the last Scottish election, how is this a 'huge increase'?Originally Posted by RedAntifa
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Well, going by the BBC coverage online of the Election (not the best source, granted), the NF claimed 0.1% of the vote, which is an increase from the last election according to them. I am unsure however if they ran widespread or were confined to a few constituencies.
Well. I have the figures right here. In 2007 the BNP had 24,616 regional votes. The NF were not running. In 2011, the BNP got 15,580 regional votes whilst the NF got 640 regional votes and 1,515 constituency votes. I'm assuming that those NF voters were BNP voters. Anyway, as you can see, there was actually a down turn. There was a downturn in all the far right parties in Scotland, apart for UKIP which went from 8,197 regional to 18,138 and up from 0 to 2,508 constituency votes.
Actually, looking at the numbers here, it presents a real sorry state for the left in Scotland. You know, if we're using the polls as a yard stick. Down from over 110,000 votes in both regional and constituency in 2003, to around 60,000 regional in 2007 and down to about 34,298 in 2011. That's a real big slide. The only party to remain consistent is the Communist party who have polled about 250 - 260 votes each election. I'm guessing that's their whole party number.
As I said above, it's probably only an increase in the extent that it's a decrease in the BNP vote.
Last edited by Rooster; 16th May 2011 at 23:35.
Given the divide between their EU and British election results, I suspect a lot of BNP voter types just vote tory in parliament...
Even if you go back to 2003, the results make for even more grim-reading. After 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party had 6 regional seats, and had gained 128,026 votes for the regional and 117,709 for the constituencies. Go forward to 2007 and they lost all those seats, only pulling in 12,731 votes - a drop of 6.1%. I don't know if this massive plummet can be attributed to Tommy Sheridan splitting to form Solidarity, but things still look bleak...
I daresay we're getting off-topic though.
