We usually seen them off in Epping Forest. But it is important to deliver on Brexit to avoid grievances being exploited.
Disillusionment, anger, reduced turnout, a body blow to future social reform, and a possible boost to extremists are all potential consequences.
Prejudice against Israelis is often a gateway to prejudice against Jews in general, as seen in the spike of anti-Semitic incidents after the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.
Labour and the Lib Dems are being propped up by a party of hate.
None the less, the local Conservatives exploited the climate of prejudice, while Labour sometimes bent to accommodate it.
Honesty and trust has been vital to the process. I am not now absolutely certain that this assumption can still be relied upon.
Face to face with angry, disillusioned voters, canvassing brings politics down to brass tacks.
At present, UKIP poses more of a threat to the Conservatives than Labour.
As Labour implode, their councillors are defecting to UKIP – but only the Conservatives offer a proper alternative.
London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook has left the British National Party. He now sits as an Independent on the London Assembly. One would like to think he has had some intellectual conversion that had suddenly made him aware of the evils of National Socialism. More likely is that it is a response to his humiliation […]
The neo-Nazi allegiances of the British National Party leadership have been well established. There will sometimes be indignant denials but the evidence is extensive enough. But what of the BNP's councillors?There are 56 in total. They have 12 in Barking and Dagenham, eight in Stoke, four each in Burnley and Epping, two each in Bradford, […]
As their Party leader Nick Griffin prepares for his Question Time debut one of their councillors. Darren Haywood has quit Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council on grounds of "job commitments." he didn't turn up to meetings anyway. Conservative members in Nuneaton have selected a local candidate Kris Wilson to fight the Camp Hill by-election which will take […]
The BBC report a claim by the BNP that they will be contesting 465 seats in the County Council elections up from just 39 four years ago. In another report Cllr Emma Colgate, a BNP councillor in Thurrock and the Party's "national agent" says: "We are standing about 400 in the country but 75 will […]
If I had to draw up a list for reasons why the BNP are gaining ground my list would be topped by Labour sleaze, Labour's failure to control our borders and then Labour's record on crime, housing and poverty. But apparently I'm wrong. Tory European policy is apparently to blame. This is what Denis MacShane […]
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