Summary
THEY started the evening with the suppressed smiles of people who know they're on a roll but don't want to show it yet. They ended, not long before dawn, in the euphoric knowledge that if they'd run a full slate of candidates, they would have won control of this borough.
The BNP stood for only 13 of the 51 seats on Barking Dagenham council. They won 11 - with only a clerical error, likely to be overturned today, denying them a twelfth. Ten miles from Westminster, in this city that constantly congratulates itself on its tolerance and diversity, the BNP had the best result of any racist party in British political history.See the full content of this document
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How Barking Became the Uk's Capital of Racism
Labour victims included Jeff Porter, a Tube driver who steered his passengers to safety as a 7/7 bomb went off beside him, and Fred Jones, the longest-serving councillor in London, a member of th...
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