BNP Fail in SW Euro Elections

south west | local government | news report Monday June 08, 2009 10:38 by antiBNP

While nationally the BNP sadly did win two seats, in the South West election they failed to get the breakthrough they were looking for.

In the South West, the BNP failed only getting 3.9% of the vote:

Conservative 30.2%
UK Independence Party 22.1%
Liberal Democrats 17.2%
Green Party 9.3%
Labour 7.7%
British National Party 3.9%
Pensioners Party 2.4%
English Democrat 1.6%
Christian Party-Christian Peoples Alliance 1.4%
Mebyon Kernow 1.0%
Socialist Labour Party 0.6%
No2EU 0.6%
Independent - Katie Hopkins 0.6%
Libertas 0.5%
Fair Play Fair Trade Party 0.5%
Jury Team 0.4%
Wai D 0.1%

Under the EU voting system, this means the BNP effectily have no hope of getting a seat as they have far too small a vote to carry anything. By contrast the Greens increased their vote by around 2.5%.

This follows on from the local elections where despite putting forward 450 candidates the fascists only managed 3 seats:


In both Burnley and NW Leicestershire the newly elected councillors were already BNP borough/district councillors, and in particular they were among the handful of BNP councillors who actively carry out their role and are known in their communities.

The third BNP win was in South Oxhey, a far-right stronghold for very many years.

In most counties the BNP polled abysmally, coming bottom or next to bottom of the list of candidates. There were moderately good percentages for the BNP in pockets of the East Midlands, but poor results pretty much across the board in Yorkshire and The Humber, the South West and the South East. In Essex, the only county where the BNP contested every division, it topped 20% only in one Basildon and one Epping Forest division.

One must, however, remember in comparing these results with previous years that many areas that have in the past returned a strong BNP vote, such as Stoke-on-Trent and Bradford, did not have local elections this year.
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/bnp-and-far-ri....html

The BNP did mange to win two seats in the Euro MEP elections up north, though they failed in the Midlands, an area they thought they could win;

The far-right leader won a seat in the North West region. Earlier Andrew Brons, another British National party politician won in the Yorkshire and Humber area. It is the first time the party has had an MEP elected.

Griffin's victory was only confirmed shortly before 2am after a two-hour cliffhanger over the last of the North West's eight seats saw the Greens fall narrowly behind the BNP and Ukip just failed to pull ahead enough to win a third seat.

There were furious scenes at the declaration when the highest polling candidate, Sir Robert Atkins, described the BNP as "an aberration" and condemned Griffin's success as sad day for British politics. He was followed by Labour's Arlene McCarthy, who came second in votes cast and told the crowd at Manchester town hall that the BNP was "a party whose members include convicted rapists".
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/eu-elections-b....html

This is considerably less than the five or more victories that tge BNP had been initially hopeful for and the percentage of the vote they gained, given the national discontentment, is much smaller than many would have predicted. Still, it is a sad day for Britain to vote the fascists back in 65 years after we landed in D-Day to defeat them.

Now it is our generation's turn to confront fascism.

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