11% for the British National Party

where they stood in the local council elections on 1 May, 2008…

I’ve watched a couple of programmes during the BBC’s ‘White Season‘ [Recomend 'Last orders' if still available] and have kept an ear to the ground on this sort of issue, and as ‘race’ is also a live issue in the United States, thought that my observations/ramblings on this might have some interest over on this blog.

For some reason the Labour Gov under Blair and now Brown has seemed to have forgotten the white working classes - whether this was because they thought they could take these fellows for granted or were just plain embarrassed by folk who liked clubs and pubs as opposed to cafes it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that in some high profile cases money seemed more ready for ‘ethnic’ groups than those ‘ethnic’ groups who’ve been around for a good long time has spread discontent and the feeling that nobody was there for the ‘white working class’ - whom I’m proud to have worked alongside… Ken Livingstone, the now deposed mayor of London, has gathered attention for the projects he chose to support - not for the diversity of groups he supported.

And now we have a BNP representative on the London Assembly…

I remember the amount of despair/disgust over the apparent unfairness of the voting in George W Bush’s brother’s state - within certain districts polling booths weren’t open as long as in other areas and some didn’t have as many ballot papers. Now the truth most folk didn’t want to admit was that both major parties involved signed off on these conditions - neither thinking there’d be a ‘huge’ turn out… And ‘race’ has remained a live issue. I just wonder…

Is the rise of divisive political parties due to the rise of divisive politics?