BNP could get 25% of vote

[Mike B.]

Here is the link from "The Telegraph:"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/17/ixportaltop.html

Quote:
“The Joseph Rowntree report followed a warning by Margaret Hodge, the Employment Minister, 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 that they were tempted to vote BNP in forthcoming council elections.
"When I knock on doors I say to people 'Are you tempted to vote BNP?' and many, many, many - eight out of 10 of the white families - say 'yes'," she said.”

Is this true or alarmist?

Did the Danish cartoon protests lead to huge apparent increase in BNP support?

The BNP website seems to think that that Cameron is too far to the left. Is this a factor?

 

[CapelDodger]

Did the Danish cartoon protests lead to huge apparent increase in BNP support?

Not really. Their target audience doesn't watch the news, they get their information about the world by word-of-mouth. Denmark is where Danish Bacon comes from in that world.

The BNP website seems to think that that Cameron is too far to the left. Is this a factor?

There was a Nazi surge in the 70's which is widely thought to have been neutered by Thatcher's capture of their natural base. There aren't many true extremists.

The current surge is due to the weakness of the mainstream parties in the Nazis target audience. Blair has alienated the "Rock Against Racism" activist Labour generation, to the extent that it's hardly a mass-member active party any more. Cameron looking at a whole bunch of glacier that's not there any more is less than inspiring. Ming is worthy but a father-figure is not what the proles are looking for. The Monarchy is a broken reed.

Anyway, seen it, done it, got the T-shirt. Not terribly concerned yet, but monitoring the situation.