Some Good News From Thursday

[sp1814]

Apparently, the BNP vote collapsed on Thursday night, and they lost their deposit in every constituency where they stood:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/576041/British-National-Party-BNP-vote-share-plummet-99-per-cent

I suspect that UKIP has effectively destroyed the BNP...not because UKIP is a racist party, but much of what UKIP chimes well with BNP voters.

Or is there another reason?

[mushroom25]

//What?
Are you joking? //

mikey is right, but only up to a point. when times are better, voters tend to stick to the middle ground, and at the moment, extreme politicos are irrelevant. however, whilst their meaage won't change, when times are hard there are more voters prepared to listen to the message of the extremist; it's so easy for the accusations of blame to be believed in those circumstances. we ignore the warnings from history at our peril.

[-Talbot-]

Mushroom, mikey has never tired of warning ABers of the dangerous rise in the far right...he never shuts up about it. Yet today it is irrelevant?

[mikey4444]

icheria...a majority of just 27 shouldn't be too much of an ask !

For the record ::

2010
CON.........13,333
LAB..........16,016
LIBDEM.....7947
UKIP.........652

2015
CON..........15,862
LAB...........15,835
LIBDEM......1662
UKIP..........4773

Labours vote stood up very well last Thursday, but its not difficult to see where the increased TORY votes came from is it !

[Orderlimit]

Thanks folks

[-Talbot-]

Is there any chance of you addressing my post on your bizarre contradiction, mikey?


Beware of the rise in the Far Right.
The Far Right are irrelevant .


Should we be worried or not?

[ichkeria]

"Labours vote stood up very well last Thursday, but its not difficult to see where the increased TORY votes came from is it ! "

That was the problem Mikey. Labour's vote stood up OK in most places in England and Wales but it needed to do better.
Labour lost there by the look of it for the same reason Ed Balls lost in Yorkshire: the LibDems did not vote Labour: in Morley they more or less all defected to UKIP and in the Gower enough went blue to see the Tories over the line.
What would depress me if I was a LibDem would be the reflection on how many votes for the LibDems in a lot of places seemed just to be a protest against the Big Two: and when their reputation nosedived it was UKIP who benefitted. Not very Liberal at all really.