Shock BNP victory as far-right candidate takes council seat in Kent
This is great news. This BNP victory in the political arena indicates a move toward controlling the Islamic invasion of Europe.
The only people "shocked" about this BNP win are those self-deluded, Politically Correct multi-culturists who are incapable of seeing the reality of the Islamic invasion. At some point, it will be the man-in-the-street who will turn the tide of global Jihad in the West.
FROM THE DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:
Shock BNP victory as far-right candidate takes council seat in Kent
By Benedict Brogan
Last updated at 3:18 PM on 20th February 2009
Surprise victory: BNP member Paul Golding took a 76 vote majority
A shock win for the far-right British National Party yesterday sent a tremor through Labour amid growing fears that the recession is driving angry voters into the arms of extremist parties.
The BNP seized a Labour seat in a district council by-election in Sevenoaks on a substantial turnout, encouraging fears that the party could make significant advances in the June local and European elections.
The Kent town is a Tory stronghold at Westminster and local politicians had previously dismissed the likelihood of a breakthrough for the BNP.
But the result will be seized on as evidence that Gordon Brown's ill-judged pledge to secure 'British jobs for British workers' has backfired by encouraging nationalist sentiment.
Earlier this month a wave of wildcat strikes against companies using foreign workers caused anxiety in Whitehall and fuelled fears that the far-right is intent on exploiting the downturn.
The result in Sevenoaks coincided with figures showing that a decade of relaxed immigration rules has seen foreign-born workers from outside the EU take the lion's share of new jobs.
The victory was the first for the BNP in the southeast outside London. Its candidate Paul Golding beat Labour's Mike Hogg in the Swanley St Mary's ward, with a majority of 76 votes.
Swanley St Mary's had been a traditional Labour seat in a Conservative-controlled district. The BNP won 408 votes to Labour's 332, while the Tories earned 247. The turnout was an above-average 31.3 per cent.
Mr Golding said the win was 'outstanding' and had 'implications' for the rest of the south-east as well as the forthcoming European elections.
The BNP also made advances in local government byelections elsewhere in the UK.
Although the party stopped short of a win in Thringstone, north-west Leicestershire, it polled more than 28 per cent of the vote to third place as Labour successfully defended the seat.
In Bilton, in Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, it pushed Labour into fourth place to come third with nine per cent of the votes. The Lib Dems held the seat.
In January the BNP was just nine votes short of winning a Tory ward in a council byelection in Bexley, southeast London.
Labour MP Jon Cruddas, who has consistently warned against the threat of a BNP surge in white working class areas, predicted it could do well in the European elections.
He said: 'The BNP poses a threat in six Euro regions, with as little as 7.5 per cent required in the north-west, where the party leader, Nick Griffin, is standing.
'With Ukip faltering, few local elections and the economy hurtling into recession, we will need everyone who opposes the BNP's message of hate to play a part. A BNP victory will change the political landscape in Britain.'
Last autumn, when it emerged that the BNP was opening an office in Sevenoaks, the Tory MP Michael Fallon said the BNP had no history in the town and branded the move 'pointless'.
He said: 'Sevenoaks is not the sort of place for extremists of any kind, right or left.'