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Originally Posted by Shaun
With all of the publicity he's gotten since the 2005 election you'd have thought the increase [if they were on a road to victory] in votes would be more than a couple of thousand.
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Some of the papers were putting up that angle and I had mixed feelings about it because a lot of the publicity was entirely negative,
and,
I noticed next to zero publicity as the election coverage got into swing. Even after some dedicated googling I was not even convinced they were running any candidates until finally finding something on wikipedia.
Yes at first I thought maybe they would have expected more but then the way things were going I actually thought most 'small parties' would see big losses,
yet,
after all the BNP did hold their own and bump up a bit.
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Far from a victory for Nick Griffin in my good (or not..) old hometown of Barking.
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Barking did throw a lot of votes to Griffin but I did think they might have been setting too high expectations for a BNP win,
but,
then again that was one place where (maybe for the first time?) a BNP candidate was a real consideration.
One thing I found a little disgusting was whats-her-name saying 'Get out' of Barking.
No.
That is really unacceptable language and I have a feeling a lot of people were offended by that.
They ARE Barking (I swear no pun intended) but she is telling thousands of voters 'Get out of here'.
What is she a Nazi?
It reminded me of Hitler getting power and then says 'Jews get out of OUR country' even though they ARE Germans. They aren't from somewhere else.
It gave me that kind of 'creep factor' when she said that.