If You Want A N****r For A Neighbour Vote Labour ?

[EDDIE51]

I heard about this for the first time only last night on the TV program ''It was OK in the 60 s'' but did not believe it was true.
But a bit of Googling found it was true and was a phase used by the Conservative candidate in the 1964 Smethwick election. The Conservatives won the seat with a 7.5% swing from Labour.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/britains-most-racist-election-smethwick-50-years-on
Astounding how far we have moved on.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Eddie raised this issue//

Eddie’s point in raising this issue was to demonstrate that we have ‘moved on’ considerably. Since you say that racism is on the increase you clearly disagree with that. Why?

[ToraToraTora]

"you are not a true cockney if you were not born within the sound of Bow Bells.
True cockneys are diminishing because they are getting pushed out by Muslims " - no retro, the new cockneys are the Muslims, if they were born there.

[ToraToraTora]

interesting though it worked, votes swang from Labour to Tories and they lost the seat so clearly the electorate in that seat took the message on board.