Posted on 04/17/2006 3:18:55 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Up to 25% of voters may support the far right British National Party, a new report is claiming.
The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust said that anger with the main political parties had led to increasing numbers indicating they might vote for the BNP.
It attributed the support to feelings of "powerlessness and frustration".
The party, which has 24 local councillors, said 356 candidates would stand in local elections next month. It is claimed that just a 5% swing to the BNP could result in up to 70 more council seats for the party.
On Good Friday, the BNP launched its local election manifesto and said it was "standing for local freedom, security, identity, democracy" and putting "Britain first".
The Rowntree report followed a warning by Employment Minister Margaret Hodge that disillusioned white, working class voters were deserting Labour for the BNP.
She said that as many as eight out of 10 white families in her Barking constituency in east London admitted they were tempted to vote BNP in forthcoming council elections.
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mrs Hodge said that many were angry because their children could no longer get homes in the area following a big influx of immigrants and asylum seekers.
"That's something we have never seen before, in all my years, even when people voted BNP they used to be ashamed to vote BNP. Now they are not," she said.
Liberal Democrat President Simon Hughes urged voters not to be taken in by the "simplistic promises" of the BNP, and said that the main parties had only themselves to blame if people were turning away from them.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is a social policy research charity and its report is due to be released next week.
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Confirms what I read somewhere else. They say 25% of European voters support nationalist parties. The MSM and established parties are radically suppressing this trend.
"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is a social policy research charity and its report is due to be released next week."
And they aren't a polling institute and they aren't far right so I don't really get this report with a lack of data. Are they trying to scare liberal voters?
Unlikely as it is, I hope and pray that the majority of Britons vote for the BNP. Both the Conservative and Labour parties have allowed the U.K. to decline as a result of socialism, multiculturalism, idiotic gun control laws, coddling criminals, and tolerance of radical Islamists in their midst. Britain is doomed until its people wake up. Otherwise, welcome to Londonistan.
When the main parties ignore the real political questions then parties who do will do well. That's democracy, not radicalism. If the MSPP (main stream political parties) ignore reality then it will burst through somewhere else.
As the quality of life in Europe sinks, this will devolve between people with mobile skills who can emigrate and people without who are stuck with the consequences of the elite agenda.
Those who are stuck are a natural constituency for the BNP. In Europe as things sink lower middle class whites will turn increasingly to nationalist parties.
deserved repeating
Ever heard of Australia and Canada ?
You are joking aren't you? Do you have any idea of who the BNP are and what they stand for?
"And they aren't a polling institute and they aren't far right so I don't really get this report with a lack of data. Are they trying to scare liberal voters?"
Think that's the basic idea. This is a blatant attempt at scaremongering. It's also not anywhere near the truth. The most % of the vote that the BNP got in any one single constituency in the last general election was about 16%. Nationally the share of the vote was 0.74%.
And maybe that will happen here, someday. But it seems a long way off when one looks at the illegal alien debate. There's no debate on what to do with them, but rather on what amnesty will mean. Completely contrary to the majority of voters in this country.
No joke. If nothing else, the U.K. should...
1. Freeze all immigration, esp. from Muslim countries.
2. Immediately deport all radical Muslim loudmouths, esp. the ones calling for the destruction of the U.K. It's unbelievable that this hasn't happened already.
3. Repeal those idiotic gun control laws, the ones which have only served to promote crime, and allow Britons to exercise their natural right of self-defense against muggers, thieves, killers and rapists.
This would be a good start. Most definitely.
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