This week there were two by-elections. One for Sale and Wythenshawe (Parliamentary) and one for Kingstanding Ward of Birmingham City Council. Here are the results.
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Kingstanding Ward/ Birmingham City Council
Conservative - Gary Sambrook - 1,571 (47.41)
Labour - Lorraine Owen - 1,433 (43.25)...
UKIP - Roger Tempest - 233 (7.03)
Lib Dems - Graham Lippiatt - 43 (1.29)
NATIONAL FRONT - TERRY WILLIAMS - 33 (0.99)
Majority - 118 (3.56)
TOTAL - 3,313 (43.25)
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Labour - Mike Kane - 13,261 (55.3) +11.2
UKIP - John Bickley - 4,301 (18.0) +14.5...
Conservative - Daniel Critchlow - 3,479 (14.5) -11
Liberal Democrat - Mary Di Mauro - 1,176 (4.9) -17
Green - Nigel Woodcock - 748 (3.1) - N/A
BNP - EDDY O' SULLIVAN - 708 (3.0) -0.9
Monster Raving Loony - Captain Chaplington-Smythe - 288 (1.2) N/A
Majority: 8,960- (37%)
TOTAL: 23,961- (28%) -23
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One may be discouraged by these results, and they have little to do with Todmorden but there are some positive features here, and indications that I am right about the direction politics is heading in. Looking at Kingstanding it is more than clear to me that in foreigner-dominated Birmingham the people still consider UKIP to be no more of a representation for white, indigenous Britons than the Tories or Labour - and that is saying something.
It should be made clear that the NF were not able to stand under their own party name as the moderates in the NF, who lost the directorate elections fair and square, are clinging onto the position of nominating officer and are trying to sabotage the NF by withholding nomination papers. This meant that Terry Williams had to stand without a description.
The Electoral Commission is refusing to settle the issue of who has the right to nominate candidates (the rogue Ian Edward, or the parties real nominating officer Dave MacDonald, nonetheless NF Candidates should stand anyway, with or without a party description and ignore any attempts at sabotage. My question to this is what the hell do parties pay for by signing up with them if they can’t settle such issues? In fact the NF could turn such a situation to their advantage and may well stand a better chance in future election by campaigning in a different way.
Turning to Wythenshawe, this Parliamentary by-election saw UKIP being trumpeted as a major player again, as they are expected to come first in most of the Home Regions of the UK in the upcoming May EU elections. Here they again fell far short of the vote needed to defeat the Labour Party, showing that they are not as big as they say they are. The BNP got less than 1/5 of what UKIP did but that is good going. I know that they fought a very vigorous campaign here.
Who knows how the NF directorate’s quarrel with the rogue ex-chairman’s struggle will end. Or whether the BNP can hold their own in the 2015 General Election, but I know one thing, these results may not be great but we must stand our ground, if we don’t then we lose all credibility in the eyes of those we claim to be representing. Irrespective of what party we like or dislike it’s up to the white working class majority to stand up and support their true representatives. And it’s up to those representatives to put their mission first, and resist the incursion of UKIP by shoring up their working-class vote.
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Kingstanding Ward/ Birmingham City Council
Conservative - Gary Sambrook - 1,571 (47.41)
Labour - Lorraine Owen - 1,433 (43.25)...
UKIP - Roger Tempest - 233 (7.03)
Lib Dems - Graham Lippiatt - 43 (1.29)
NATIONAL FRONT - TERRY WILLIAMS - 33 (0.99)
Majority - 118 (3.56)
TOTAL - 3,313 (43.25)
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Labour - Mike Kane - 13,261 (55.3) +11.2
UKIP - John Bickley - 4,301 (18.0) +14.5...
Conservative - Daniel Critchlow - 3,479 (14.5) -11
Liberal Democrat - Mary Di Mauro - 1,176 (4.9) -17
Green - Nigel Woodcock - 748 (3.1) - N/A
BNP - EDDY O' SULLIVAN - 708 (3.0) -0.9
Monster Raving Loony - Captain Chaplington-Smythe - 288 (1.2) N/A
Majority: 8,960- (37%)
TOTAL: 23,961- (28%) -23
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One may be discouraged by these results, and they have little to do with Todmorden but there are some positive features here, and indications that I am right about the direction politics is heading in. Looking at Kingstanding it is more than clear to me that in foreigner-dominated Birmingham the people still consider UKIP to be no more of a representation for white, indigenous Britons than the Tories or Labour - and that is saying something.
It should be made clear that the NF were not able to stand under their own party name as the moderates in the NF, who lost the directorate elections fair and square, are clinging onto the position of nominating officer and are trying to sabotage the NF by withholding nomination papers. This meant that Terry Williams had to stand without a description.
The Electoral Commission is refusing to settle the issue of who has the right to nominate candidates (the rogue Ian Edward, or the parties real nominating officer Dave MacDonald, nonetheless NF Candidates should stand anyway, with or without a party description and ignore any attempts at sabotage. My question to this is what the hell do parties pay for by signing up with them if they can’t settle such issues? In fact the NF could turn such a situation to their advantage and may well stand a better chance in future election by campaigning in a different way.
Turning to Wythenshawe, this Parliamentary by-election saw UKIP being trumpeted as a major player again, as they are expected to come first in most of the Home Regions of the UK in the upcoming May EU elections. Here they again fell far short of the vote needed to defeat the Labour Party, showing that they are not as big as they say they are. The BNP got less than 1/5 of what UKIP did but that is good going. I know that they fought a very vigorous campaign here.
Who knows how the NF directorate’s quarrel with the rogue ex-chairman’s struggle will end. Or whether the BNP can hold their own in the 2015 General Election, but I know one thing, these results may not be great but we must stand our ground, if we don’t then we lose all credibility in the eyes of those we claim to be representing. Irrespective of what party we like or dislike it’s up to the white working class majority to stand up and support their true representatives. And it’s up to those representatives to put their mission first, and resist the incursion of UKIP by shoring up their working-class vote.