Local Council by-elections 26th November 2020

[timmullen1]

Dec 3, 2020 2:15:10 GMT European Lefty said:

Dec 2, 2020 17:14:08 GMT tonygreaves said:

I remember talking to a resident of my ward I knew, in the heyday of the BNP in East Lancs (I think 2004 when I was standing to return to the Council when it was on the same day as the Euros.) He told me he was voting for the BNP in the Euros and that nice man Nick Griffin. "I'm canvassing for the Council elections though." "Oh - I'll vote for them in that as well." "But they are not standing a candidate". "Oh I'll have to think about it then." I saw him again when I was delivering a thank-you leaflet after I had got elected. "Hello - who did you vote for then in the Council election?" "Well, Tony, I voted for you. The best of a very bad choice."

One of the first canvasses I ever did (for the 2016 council elections), me and mum found a voter who told us "yep, 2 postal votes for Labour gone in the post this morning. Might be different come the general election though, I might be looking for a BNP candidate". This was followed by the obligatory "too much bloody immigration" comment. Needless to say most of the people on that street had been brought up within a 500 metre radius of that street

On a slightly different tack one Council candidate I was Agent for was leafleting one evening and was accosted by a man in a Stoke City top singing the praises of the BNP, and telling him where he could place his leaflet. Now this just happened to be right on the moment Stoke City were promoted to the Premiership, so my candidate, despite being a Manchester United fan, proceeded to rattle off all the overseas players in the Stoke team and pointed out that the BNP wouldn’t let them play in the Premiership. Not sure whether we got his vote, but he took a leaflet and said my candidate talked more common sense then “any of those other buggers on the council”!

[andykernow]

I had the same back in 2007 when I first stood for Caradon DC for my ward in a three member seat - when watching the ballots come in I saw more than one which had voted Mebyon Kernow, Liberal Democrat, UKIP!