PMM
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 05:20
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=866540174
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Moon Cat
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Edited Jun 08, 2009, 15:55
Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 15:31
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Arse! Very disappointing and particularly unwelcome as it was up here in the North West that the BNP got the votes.
Realistically, they probably haven't got enough clout to directly influence policy but they do now have a fairly lofty perch from which to spew their bile.
The irony of it is they actually did worse than 5 years ago - the meltdown in Labour's vote gave them what they needed. Fuckbags and pooballs!
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IanB
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 16:10
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Moon Cat wrote: Arse! Very disappointing and particularly unwelcome as it was up here in the North West that the BNP got the votes.
Realistically, they probably haven't got enough clout to directly influence policy but they do now have a fairly lofty perch from which to spew their bile.
The irony of it is they actually did worse than 5 years ago - the meltdown in Labour's vote gave them what they needed. Fuckbags and pooballs!
At risk of repeating myself if they can't muster 1m votes in this economic climate then they've got as many problems as Labour.
The delicious irony is that if we were to pull out of Europe, just as the right of Tory and far right parties would have it, then all those parties would suddenly lose all representation on a national level because of the political Darwinism of the 1st past the post system.
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charlbury
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 17:25
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Well I hate to say I was right.... but.......
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fauny fergus
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 17:57
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In other news, the Pirate Party wins a seat.
I can't say that I'm all that surprised the BNP won a couple of seats after the huge levels of attention and publicitoxygen they were given. What freezes my blood is the thought of the onward march of the Tories. When the public services get raped by the toff bastards I really won't be giving a shit about Nick Griffin.
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Mike Stand
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 22:39
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fauny fergus wrote:
*moves to Sweden*
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Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 09, 2009, 00:54
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Yorkshirepedestrian wrote:
I...I cannae believe it, David Icke was right all along.
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Hob
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Re: Hope not hate petition
Jun 09, 2009, 14:22
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Apologies if this has been posted previously, I'm in a hurry at work and haven't time to check the whole thread.
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/page/s/notinmyname
It's not much, but it's not nothing.
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Merrick
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Edited Jun 10, 2009, 10:06
Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 10, 2009, 10:04
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charlbury wrote: Well I hate to say I was right
I'd hate to say you were right too, because it appears that you weren't.
As was clear, this was a guessing game. My guess was the Greens, yours was the LibDems.
I'm willing to bet there was a hefty chunk of personal bias in both our recommendations, but given the previous results, the polls for this time and the online calculator, I couldn't see how the LibDems were ever going to be a serious challenge to the BNP. And, indeed, they weren't.
In the North West, it turns out the greatest leverage was with neither the Greens or LibDems. It was widely reported on the night that a couple of thousand extra UKIP votes would've given them the final seat.
Using the results and the online calculator, and rather simplistically just adding extra to each party (instead of transferrng them from another) and not having any parties score below the BNP, it works out like this.
NORTH WEST
2,500 extra UKIP votes needed, or
5,000 Green
27,000 LibDem
60,000 Labour
95,000 Conservative
YORKSHIRE
10,000 Labour
16,000 Green
27,000 UKIP
61,000 Conservative
67,000 LibDem
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