BNP 2
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I fucking hope so.
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Sunday, 7 June 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd assume at least one of the BNP votes was King Boy Pato voting for a joke.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
and the sinn fein vote?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 7 June 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
g adams lurks
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 7 June 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
big in to his minimal.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 7 June 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Wondered what 'RA podcast meant.
― Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 June 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 7 June 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
which one of these is the pirate party of uk?
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 7 June 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Election show on Beeb Two now!
They've just left Jeremy Vine with a map on the floor and a pie-chart on the wall... he is walking in the sea.
UKIP projected to be tying for first with Labour in HULL. Fuuuuck.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Should have made him do it this morning style, on a floating map.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Exit polls say the pirate party have won a seat.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Surprised you haven't tried to pin it on a Celtic fan, tbh.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
For some reason, I am slightly amazed that Danny Finkelstein has the voice of a grown-up man.
― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
so they do the vote on thursday, announce on sunday, but can't count before then? you gotta fuckin love europe.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric Pickles is a Loathsome slug.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
It's because different countries have elections on different days. We have ours on Thursdays (same as all our other elections), other countries have theirs on Sundays (e.g. Italy, same as their general elections). Theoretically announcing the result from one country before having the poll in another could influence the result there. Also, you can hardly involved thousands of people in counting millions of votes and expect the result to be hushed up for three days.(xpost)
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Two results and no great shakes so far.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
So Labour are losing votes to BNP and Greens and the Tories are not getting them? Come the general election what will happen to those votes? Interesting times.
― ziganka zoppetto zouk (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
It will be interesting, are people going to vote tactically when it gets down to constituency level, either to turf out labour or to block the BNP. This weekend feels like it is much worse for the LDs than for labour. I feel like they are going to loose a bunch of seats in the south west and possibly in scotland (although we won't know about that yet).
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep looking up at Newsnight Scotland and seeing Tories winning stuff. This is giving me proper fear.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Edinburgh could be true blue next year.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you think somehow Scotland would be immune to the Rise Of The Right?
― ziganka zoppetto zouk (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there anywhere that is publishing the council level vote tallies?
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
The local news websites are (or at least they are here in Leicestershire) - very depressing reading.
― ziganka zoppetto zouk (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus, over 100,000 votes for the bnp in wherever this is, west riding or something.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yorkshire
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Fucking cunt bastards
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned, no, I didn't, but it's the sheer volume of it that's thrown me.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Astonished and depressed by the BNP "success", for fuck's sake what is is happening to this country?
― Bill A, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
THIS GUY IS A TEACHER?!?
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel a bit sick. I really didn't think they'd make the top five in any constituency and hence unlikely to snag a seat. Jesus.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I am seriously up for organising a mass protest outside the offices of The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Express where everyone waves massive banners going 'THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU CUNTS'.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
His guff on tv just then was woeful. What a fucking prick, apparently former NF as well.
― Bill A, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, yeh, apart from the fact it isn't or anything. Still, delighted anyone still thinks the press is that powerful.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Mother fuck, the lack of an xpost warning on iPhone ILX is a pain in the arse.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even know what to say or think. Fuck. I want to cry.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Fucking hell, conservatives largest party in wales.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
can yorkshire just fucking fall into the north sea
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously WOULD NOT MISS ANY OF YOU AND YOUR BNP-VOTING CUNTING POPULATION. fuck off. secede. go back where you came from ie the fucking mud at the bottom of the ocean. cunts.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Umm. Sorry, people are surprised by this?
The only good thing to come from this (eternal optimist that I am) is that the rest of the country might wake up to the fact the festering sore of small-minded racism is a really fucking big problem and can't just be ignored. The BNP might be chumps but we fail to take them seriously at our peril ... as, darkly, this seems to be proving. Christ.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
God Toynbee is insufferable right now.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
why don't we have any decent political assassins around any more??? if the 60s could produce someone to murder jfk why can't this decade get it together to take nick griffin out
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Krishan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News: "people get the politicians they deserve.....maybe all the fuckwits who say they're not interested in politics will sit up"
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I knew it was all going a bit wrong, but having it there in black and white, or Tory fucking blue, it's just awful, like a negative photo of that night in 1997 when we all thought everything was going to be OK again. I thought the threat of this might make people cast their minds back further than a couple of years, but no, people are cnuts.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Also: superb, Lex, small-minded broad-brush attack on an entire county there. Irony lost on you, is it?
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Dimbleby is outright calling Nick Griffin a racist on TV. Thank fucking fuck for that.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
AARGH, GET THIS MAN OFF MY TV. Can we repatriate him to cnutsville?
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
When people said in 1997 that the Tories would be out of power for a generation I didn't realise that they were talking about Alfie Patten.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
ILLEGALS! You dumb cunt, Griffin.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm assuming this is the pattern emerging across Europe? Incumbent governments getting a kicking, far right parties gaining ground? The worrying thing is a fascist coalition in the EP.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
idk, but it does make a dent on potential supporters.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, it'll be like egg off cheap suit for him but might make some of the people who voted for him even more embarrassed about it than they already claim to be
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
and i think it's a good thing if groups that have the potential to command respect amongst likely recruitment/expansion ground for the bnp come out and directly oppose griffin et al.
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
They should definitely have Brons on telly more because he'd give anyone the creeps
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link