Forget These Londoners and the Bnp Reaps the Harvest

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THEY are well-scrubbed and media-trained. They have learned to avoid quoting Hitler and giving Nazi salutes. Should we worry that they have won a seat on the London Assembly, winning more than 130,000 votes? In fact the BNP's enemies can make a good case that we shouldn't. They point out that the supposed triumph of the London far-Right on Friday night was nothing of the sort.

Until the count, events seemed to be moving the BNP's way. The press was taking it seriously. Television helped heighten the anti- immigrant mood by devoting hours of airtime to documentaries on the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech. The Labour vote was crumbling, while no one could deny London was struggling to cope with the strains and cultural tensions brought by the greatest wave of immigration in its history. For all that, the party increased its vote by a paltry 0.5 per cent, from 4.8 in 2004 to 5.3 last week. As electoral advances go, this was hardly a blitzkrieg.

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Forget These Londoners and the Bnp Reaps the Harvest

The sole victorious candidate was Richard Barnbrook, an odd man even by the standards of the far R...

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