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BNP lose council seat to Labour

category international | politics / elections | other press author Friday March 24, 2006 16:29author by pat c Report this post to the editors

This is a setback for the BNP but they havent gone away. They still managed to poll one third of the votes cast. But they were defending a seat that they had won in the previous Council Elections and their inability to retain it against an unpopular Government suggests they may well have peaked in Bradford.

I guess I will give two cheers for Labour.

pat

"The British National Party has lost one of its seats on Bradford Council at a by-election in Keighley. Labour's Angela Sinfield won the Keighley West seat with a majority of 603 after its BNP councillor Angela Clark stood down last month. Standing for the BNP, Ian Dawson came second, followed by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates in a poll which saw a 35% turnout.

Later, Ms Sinfield described the result as a victory over extremism. "This is the second time Keighley has rejected extremism," she said. "The first time was in the general election. The BNP need to get the message that they are not welcome in Keighley and need to leave." "

Full story at link.

Related Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4839990.stm
author by Paul - .publication date Fri Mar 24, 2006 16:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

this is probably one of the few times I will congratulate "new labour" but hopefully the BNP is on the run.

Hopefully same will happen Pen's scumbags in France

author by curiouspublication date Fri Mar 24, 2006 16:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

So it must be the BNP and not New Labour that is up to its eyeballs in blood in Iraq and corporate donations at home.

author by Very Curiouspublication date Fri Mar 24, 2006 17:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Would you have been happier if the BNP had won?

author by elizabeth veldonpublication date Sat Mar 25, 2006 14:21author email elizabethveldon at yahoo dot co dot ukauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

curious: are you a complete idiot?

To quote you: 'So it must be the BNP and not New Labour that is up to its eyeballs in blood in Iraq and corporate donations at home.'

so you'd vote Fashist yourself?

You're a idiot.

 
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