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Showing posts with label Barnsley Central. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barnsley Central. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 March 2011

“The Muslim community provides a huge vibrancy and richness to British life”. Ed Miliband

Thus said the leader of the Labour Party in a recent interview. Like his brother, the Islamophiliac David, Ed believes in promoting multiculturalism red in tooth and claw and is probably tattooed with a halal kitemark: 100% dhimmi. In response to a question from the editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J. Versi, as to what his “relationship with the Muslim community” will look like, Miliband replied:
I want to make a new start with the Muslim community. The Muslim community provides a huge vibrancy and richness to British life. It is very important that we acknowledge that and it is something that I am seeking to do that as a Leader of the Labour Party. I want to do and will do, in terms of my outreach conversations with the Muslim community. I had very interesting experiences when I was Minister for Voluntary Sector in talking to various groups that were involved in the Muslim community.
Of course, I’ve never trusted either of the Miliband brothers, or for that there political home – the Labour Party – for many years. Nonetheless, it is worth repeatedly drawing our people’s attention to the fact that Miliband the younger, just as Cameron, Clegg and Simon Hughes, is very actively courting the Muslim bloc vote. All are willing to maintain and extend Muslim special privileges in doing so, irrespective of Cameron’s cynically calculated public condemnation of state-promoted multiculturalism.

What is Miliband referring to when he refers to “a huge vibrancy and richness”? Any suggestions? A few curry houses and mosques sprouting like toxic toadstools? The abuse of language by the advocates of multiculturalism in recent years has come to stigmatise previously innocuous terms such as ‘diversity’, ‘vibrancy’ and ‘enrichment’, for they have been employed as euphemisms for ‘Balkanisation’, ‘aggressive and shrill minority assertiveness’ and ‘erosion of indigenous culture and confidence’. And what does Miliband imply when he says that Labour must “acknowledge” these putatively positive contributions? Additional legal concessions to Islam and targeted investment in ‘deprived’ Muslim colonies (‘communities’ in newspeak)?

It was sad to see the return of a Labour candidate to Barnsley Central recently, with 63% of the 37% of voters who bothered to turn out putting their cross in the Labour box. People in places such as Barnsley need to wake up to the fact that this inherited tribal party loyalty is long since past its sell-by date. Their Labour Party of old died decades ago, and embraced the principles of the New Left with its obsessive focus upon ethnic minority special privileges, jettisoning its previous concern with the bread and butter issues of the daily welfare of the working people and the protection of their jobs and standard of living.

The mainstream Labour Party view today is that Barnsley fully deserves its pariah label as a ‘racist town’, simply because it still contains an overwhelming majority of English people. They would much prefer Barnsley if it were to have a large ‘vibrant’ Pakistani ‘community’. How about some Somalis with an admixture of Kosovans for good measure? Who knows what the future could bring: a sprinkle of Libyans and Tunisians perhaps? Barnsley folk however, are I daresay all too aware of the ‘vibrancy’ of nearby towns and cities such as Dewsbury, Bradford and Sheffield, and would rather cleave to the pleasantly non-vibrant social milieu of England in its pre-‘enrichment’ years. The Milibands of this world however, will never deviate from the view that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ and that the English are essentially a vile bunch of ‘racists’. Don’t vote Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat. Look elsewhere for parties to support, which care about our country and our people, and do not seek to provide privileges to aggressive minority interlopers.

Friday, 4 March 2011

Barnsley Central By-election Result: Winners, Losers and the Future of the BNP

Dan Jarvis has emerged as the victor of the Barnsley by-election. This is the dull headline result. However, beyond the ritual return of the Labour candidate, something more interesting took place in Barnsley yesterday. True, the turnout was a lacklustre 37% on an equally uninspiring day punctuated by chilly drizzle, but the ramifications of the result for all of the parties other than Labour are rather interesting.

Labour may have achieved a confident win, but what will have discomfited all of the other candidates will have been UKIP’s strong showing. Their candidate – Jane Collins – leapfrogged the BNP, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives into second place. The biggest losers of the day however, were without a doubt the Liberal Democrats, beaten into sixth place trailing behind not only the BNP, but also an Independent.  
 
The primary lessons that can be gleaned from yesterday’s by-election are: 
  • Barnsley remains a Labour bailiwick
  • Liberal Democrat participation in government has finished the party as an electoral force
  • Voters dislike Cameron’s globalist, multicultural Toryism
  • Space exists for a popular, credible, moderate nationalist party
  • The BNP in its current incarnation has long since passed its peak, and must either fully jettison its negative baggage, or forever remain an irrelevant presence on the national political scene functioning as little more than a unifying bogey for the Left and an impediment to the emergence of a popular moderate nationalist party
Barnsley represents a missed opportunity for nationalists, as taking the combined vote of UKIP, the BNP and the English Democrats we end up with 4,960 votes, or 20.5% of the vote. True, this is a long way short of Labour’s 60.8% share in this case, but it is significantly ahead of the Conservative’s 8.25%. Moreover, if a credible nationalist party did exist, a number of automatic Tory voters who dislike Cameron would shift their votes to the former. In areas which are not Labour strongholds, the potential for nationalist politics is thus very substantial. Although UKIP may see themselves as the party to assume this mantle, their Atlantacist globalist stance makes them little more than Eurosceptic Tories, with the same set of failed Thatcherite economic policies pursued by successive Conservative governments.

The BNP’s performance was underwhelming, its share of the vote slumping from 8.9% to 6.04%. This is less a of reflection upon the character of the candidate – Enis Dalton – than upon the toxic public image of the party Chairman – Nick Griffin - seared into the nation’s consciousness by his refusal to categorically distance himself from Holocaust denial on Question Time. He had the opportunity to forward the cause of the BNP, and he blew it in a spectacular way. Thereafter, the party never recovered its momentum and fell into gradual and inevitable decline, sealed by its feeble showing in last year’s General Election. Griffin’s Question Time appearance was but one of a number of blunders that has led many decent and dedicated nationalists to find their efforts squandered by their self-aggrandising leader. My dissection of these many mistakes and recommendations for their remedy can be found here. Unfortunately, they have not been acted upon.

 

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Other BNP Target Seats to Watch: Dagenham and Rainham, Stoke-on-Trent South and Barnsley Central

Well, time and tide wait for no man and I’ve only made it to outlining the BNP’s prospects in what I consider to be eight of its top ten seats rather than the whole lot. Still, an analysis of prospects in Morley in Outwood was also added to the mix. So, in which other seats should we expect a strong BNP showing?

Dagenham and Rainham
So, starting with the final two of my unfinished top ten we come to Dagenham and Rainham with odds from Paddypower.com of 33/1 on the BNP winning the seat. If it does, I’ll probably have a coronary, but we should see a healthy poll for the party here. It is a new constituency so there’s nothing to go on by way of direct comparison with 2005 and I have no time to trawl through ward-level stats to gain an indicator of possible BNP support. Still, this is where the BNP have chosen to field Michael Barnbrook, brother of BNP London Assembly member Richard. Labour BNP-baiter Jon Cruddas looks likely to be the favourite, but as this is East London the BNP should do pretty well. At an absolute minimum it should be looking at 5% of the vote as an absolute minimum, but 10-15% and a third place or above would in my opinion constitute a decent showing. UKIP are also contesting Dagenham and Rainham.

Stoke-on-Trent South
BNP campaigning in Stoke-on-Trent has according to Simon Darby's blog been going well, and besides anticipating a strong vote for Simon Darby himself in Stoke-on-Trent Central we should see fellow party member Michael Coleman increase the party’s share of the vote. The BNP stood here in 1997, 2001 and 2005, increasing their total number of votes and vote share on each occasion as follows: 1.2% (568); 3.8% (1,358) and 8.7% (3,305). A share of 12% or above would be a respectable result. It’s a solid Labour seat and is likely to remain in that party’s hands. As in Dagenham and Rainham, the BNP will also be vying with UKIP for the Eurosceptic nationalist vote.

Barnsley Central
The BNP have enjoyed rapid growth in the South Yorkshire borough of Barnsley in recent years, and it’ll be well worth watching their performance here. Unlike in many of West Yorkshire’s towns and cities, Barnsley has pretty much escaped Islamic colonisation, but the locals are all aware of the fate that has befallen other Yorkshire towns such as Keighley, Halifax and Dewsbury and are keen not to have that experience repeat itself on their patch. Barnsley Central was first contested by the BNP in 2005 when they won 4.9% (1,403 votes) of the poll, but in the local elections of 2008 they polled very strongly and took second and third place in a number of wards. Barnsley Central is comprised of 8 wards, but in 2008 only half of these held elections. Nonetheless, the results in these four point to a likely significant increase in both the overall number of votes captured by the BNP today as well as a greater vote share: Central – 621 (3rd place); Cudworth – 650 (2nd place); Monk Bretton – 668 (2nd place) and Royston – 392 (3rd place). This gives a total of 2,331 from half of the constituency’s wards.

A reasonable result for BNP candidate Ian Sutton would therefore be 4,000 votes and upwards with a 14%+ share of the vote. This is solid Labour territory, but is certainly a seat in which the BNP stand an excellent chance of muscling the Conservatives into fourth place, for the latter polled only a little over 13% at the last two parliamentary elections and less than 10% in 1997. The Liberal Democrats have been only marginally more popular than the Tories, so there is an outside chance that we could see Ian Sutton taking second place. UKIP are likely to come last in fifth place.