- Martin Wingfield

Could Leeds be on course for our Quiet Revolution?


leeds-town-hall.jpgTHE latest YouGov poll puts support for the British National Party at 4% in London and 7% in the North and Yorkshire. The pollsters freely admit that voters in general are reluctant to reveal that they will be voting for the British National Party, so it is highly likely that BNP support in these two regions could be higher.

While the media focusses its attention on London, we shall be hoping that our Quiet Revolution will make its mark in Leeds and that come May 2nd, the sole BNP councillor in the city will be joined by a colleague or two.

This was how the votes stacked up across the whole of Leeds last May.

Labour - 32.51%
Conservative - 26.82%
Liberal Democrat - 19.69%
BNP - 11.16%
Green - 3.91%
Morley Borough Independents - 2.72%
UK Independence Party - 0.90%

The British National Party fought all 33 seats, 12 months ago and this year it’s a full quota once again with a 34th BNP candidate standing in the double vacancy ward of Calverley & Farsley.

In the 18 seats listed below, BNP candidates polled over 10% of the vote last May and this is where our battleground will be this year. In six seats we came second and two of these seats, Ardsley & Robin Hood and Middleton Park, look to provide the Party with its best opportunity to gain another City councillor.

Although Kevin Meeson has a 600+ Labour majority to overcome in Middleton Park, he is very upbeat out his chances. He reports:
“The response on the doorstep has been brilliant, much better than last year. There is real anger over the Government’s stand on tax and pensions and lifelong Labour supporters are now saying they will never vote for them again.”

Although gaining councillors is one target, it is the building of the BNP vote in the city which is the main priority. With local and European Elections next year, and the possibility of a General Election in the forseeable future, the British National Party needs to establish itself as a real challenger to the three main parties in Leeds.

Leeds City Council
Ardsley & Robin Hood
Joanna Beverley (BNP)
Opponents: UKIP, Con, Ind, Lib-Dem, Lab
May 2007: Lab 1967, BNP 1538, Con 1181, Lib-Dem 567, UKIP 325.

Armley
Shaun Fitzpatrick (BNP)
Opponents: Green, Con, Lib-Dem, Lab
May 2007: Lab 2287, Con 737, Lib-Dem 676, BNP 656, Green 610.

Beeston & Holbeck
Dean Taylor (BNP)
Opponents: Green, Lib-Dem, Lab, Con, UKIP
May 2007: Lab 2079, Con 889, BNP 703, Lib-Dem 591, Green 269, UKIP 181.

Bramley & Stanningley
David Gatenby (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, Green, ED.
May 2007: Lab 2123, BNP 971, Con 820, Lib-Dem 599, ED 326, Green 325.

Burmantofts & Richmond Hill
Mark Collett (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Green, Lib-Dem
May 2007: Lib-Dem 2331, Lab 1450, BNP 898, Con 164.

Calverley & Farsley
Robert Leary (BNP)
Jane Hollings (BNP)

Opponents: Lib-Dem, Con, Lab.
May 2007: Con 3775, Lab 1635, BNP 872, Lib-Dem 778.

City & Hunslet
John Atkinson (BNP)
Opponents: Con, Lab, Green, Lib-Dem, Ind.
May 2007: Lab 1647, Lib-Dem 552, Res 520, BNP 440, Green 215.

Crossgates & Whinmoor
John Douglas (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Lib-Dem, UKIP, Con.
May 2007: Lab 2619, Con 1984, BNP 894, Lib-Dem 779.

Farnley & Wortley
Helen Foster (BNP)
Green, Con, Green, Lib-Dem, Lab.
May 2007: Green 2284, Lab 1607, BNP 760, Con 649, Lib-Dem 268, UKIP 165.

Killingbeck & Seacroft
Mark Powell (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, UKIP, Green.
May 2007: Lab 2789, BNP 862, Lib-Dem 799, Con 698.

Kippax & Methley
Peter Maverick (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lab 3403, Con 1422, BNP 754, Lib-Dem 515.

Middleton Park
Kevin Meeson (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lab 2467, BNP 1817, Lib-Dem 537, Con 467.

Morley North
Tom Redmond (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, MI, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: MI 3069, BNP 1328, Lab 1018, Con 674, Lib-Dem 231.

Morley South
Mike Mee (BNP)
Lab, MI, Con, Lib-Dem Ind.
May 2007: MI 2385, BNP 1928, Lab 1385, Con 539, Ind 206, Lib-Dem 201.

Pudsey
John Hirst (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, Green.
May 2007: Lab 2917, Con 2257, BNP 816, Lib-Dem 471, Green 250.

Rothwell
Robert Peel (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem.
May 2007: Lib-Dem 2453, Lab 2166, BNP 664, Con 639.

Temple Newsam
Peter Hollings (BNP)
Opponents: Lab, Con, Lib-Dem, Ind
May 2007: Lab 2388, Con 2294, BNP 1642, Lib-Dem 707.

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20 comments for “Could Leeds be on course for our Quiet Revolution?”

  1. May I wish you all not just good luck, as luck should not be needed, but huge success, and hope this snowball starts to gather and gather as people now realise voting BNP is the norm, not the “nazi/racist! crap the liberal elite have tried to stigmatise us with. I too look forward to standing next year in Hull. Just wish I’d decided earlier. Well done to all of you standing, you are heroes!

    Posted by SBH in Hull | April 30, 2008, 8:34 am
  2. The loony-left opposition seem to be a bit thinner on the ground this year than last.

    Posted by iiwn | April 30, 2008, 9:37 am
  3. I checked out the figures for these wards, and found this:

    [1] All 17 wards got high Labour turnouts; every single seat had one or wo thousand votes, which no other party did. Total Labour votes were 36K, with Con next at 19K, and BNP third with 17.5K. The Lib Dems had 13K. Even if lots of Lab voters abstain it would make little difference. There would have to be great revulsion against Labour to affect these seats.

    [2] There are 5 exceptional councillors: two are ‘Morley Borough Independents’ wanting their town separated from Leeds. There’s a Green councillor - as far as I can tell someone with family in local government, and with a local issue with an incinerator. And there are two Lib Dems, I’d guess both valuable people, one opposing a so called ‘eco town’, and the other (where Mark Collett is), judging by his register of interests, an energetic activist.

    [3] Apart from exceptions it’s four cornered, but with Labour holding more weight. There must have been some agonising about alliances and agreements not to stand, but in fact Labour has Labour has eleven seats and in many of them their lead looks too great for such alliances to matter. But Ardsley & Robin Hood, Middleton Park, and Temple Newsam might be BNP-able.

    [4] The main conclusion seems to be that past Labour voters are the key. Will they develop doubts? Surely some must!

    Posted by RW | April 30, 2008, 10:02 am
  4. Times are changing, more and more people are now proud to vote for BNP, I consider it an Honour and privilege to have the opportunity, when you see the pathetic alternative. Good luck Leeds, you have suffered long enough.

    Posted by Englishman first | April 30, 2008, 10:12 am
  5. Mr Wingfield — re-reading your article, are you sure the latest poll only puts the BNP at 4% in London? Is this in any way credible even allowing for uncooperative respondents? It seems absurdly low to me.

    Posted by RW | April 30, 2008, 11:20 am
  6. Polls, polls, polls. I’ve seen the BNP put at 4% and 59% and everything in between.

    It all depends on who’s doing the polling and how they do it. And for whom. The poll that matters takes place tomorrow, and we must make sure that it’s the voters who count, not the people counting the votes. It’s a democracy thing.

    Posted by apendragon | April 30, 2008, 11:27 am
  7. I used to live in Middleton (miggy, as the locals call the area)
    If the BNP dont win they will come a really close second.
    I was drinking in miggy last Friday, and everybody I met said they were voting BNP

    -

    Good luck and best wishes to ‘Miggy’ - Ed

    Posted by seamus | April 30, 2008, 12:07 pm
  8. RW - Yes, that is the finding of the latest YouGov poll.
    Having said that, my colleague Simon Darby on his website this morning is suggesting that another poll is putting BNP support in London at 12%.

    Posted by Martin Wingfield | April 30, 2008, 12:09 pm
  9. Leeds? High population of students. Young. Naive. Simply innocent Cannon fodder for their Marxist tutors at the Uni. I gave up on Leeds many years ago. BUT .. any victory in such a place would have a magnitude far in excess of its actual size. Come on, voters in Leeds, prove my lack of faith in Leeds is unfounded. Walk towards the light.

    Posted by White Rose | April 30, 2008, 12:24 pm
  10. I’ve been leafleting in the Temple Newsam and Whinmoor wards nearly every day this month. The anti-BNP commies were putting out their filth last night, but there has been so many good responses from people on the street that I’m certain the vote share will increase.

    Posted by bnprenaissance | April 30, 2008, 12:26 pm
  11. White Rose

    Yes we’ve come across a few of those hippy dippy student marxist lovers in the nice leafy areas.You never find them living in the rough areas though.

    I remember early in the month one degenerate came out from under his rock complete with Mohican and red star tattoo’s.He said: “we’re not into that sort of thing around here” but unfortunately there was an elderly chap who was stood at his own gate who replied “Speak for yourself”.After being told that he wasn’t the spokesman for the whole street he slithered off back to his dwelling not before doing the Hitler salute.There’s no other way to describe these rats other than vermin but then that is unfair to vermin.

    Posted by bnprenaissance | April 30, 2008, 12:36 pm
  12. Yes we’ve come across a few of those hippy dippy student marxist lovers in the nice leafy areas.You never find them living in the rough areas though.

    I remember early in the month one degenerate came out from under his rock complete with Mohican hairstyle and red star tattoo’s.He said: “we’re not into that sort of thing around here” but unfortunately there was an elderly chap who was stood at his own gate who replied “Speak for yourself”.After being told that he wasn’t the spokesman for the whole street he slithered off back to his dwelling not before doing the Hitler salute.There’s no other way to describe these rats other than vermin but then that is unfair to vermin.

    Posted by bnprenaissance | April 30, 2008, 12:37 pm
  13. Best wishes - And good luck Leeds-vote BNP X

    Posted by RedWhiteAnBlue | April 30, 2008, 1:53 pm
  14. It just goes to show how Brainwashed people are, that they can accept the Demise of their own People and culture.
    They should be understood, the entire Establishment and Media have worked on them for years.

    Getting British People simply to visit the BNP website is the cure.

    Posted by royalecraig | April 30, 2008, 2:05 pm
  15. Best of luck on Thursday, lets hope more Tykes are a changing.

    Hwll Fawr

    Posted by ianpenrhyndd | April 30, 2008, 5:21 pm
  16. Good luck Leeds. In my ward today when I got back from work there was the usual pathetic bile from the Labour candidate coupled up with a leaflet asking Tories and Liberals to vote for them to try to remove our councillor (Len Starr) who is doing a superb job. They are so desperate and a tribute to the people who vote BNP and the members who work quietly and effectively to improve our ward and make sure our voice is heard. Not reacting to the lies and hostility shown against them. Thank you.

    —–
    Capital letters where appropriate PLEASE everybody. - Ed.

    Posted by Patriotic Burnley Celt | April 30, 2008, 8:10 pm
  17. RW, the Morley Borough Independents are nothing to do with keeping Morley seperate from Leeds! They are the dregs of the old parties all mixed into one horrible party. Their leader is an extreme left winger who was thrown out of Labour for downloading porn onto council computers.
    They exsist only to keep their noses in the trough and the BNP out of power.

    Posted by belenus | April 30, 2008, 10:38 pm
  18. As an overseas observer of the state of the British nation, I cannot begin to understand how large sections of the electorate still continue to cast their votes Labour’s way (or for that matter, the Tories either) when it is abundantly clear to anyone who cares to open their eyes to see what is going on around them that the country is becoming an increasingly alien environment to its original inhabitants. Please, Labourites,THINK before you vote at any upcoming elections. It is no longer the party of ‘fair shares for all’ with a strong sense of social justice. The current mob who run the Party are ruining your nation, both socially and economically and seem hell-bent on helping the Muslims in setting up an Islamic State on your soil.

    Posted by Ex-pat loyalist | May 1, 2008, 2:54 am
  19. Thanks belenus - I believe you! I’ve only been to Leeds a handful of times and my post was a bit of a cheek in a sense, but I was trying to make sense of past results. (I believe you because there’s an analogous party here that I have doubts about.)

    I should perhaps have added the Calverley & Farsley Tory in my lst of exceptions, as he had a huge Tory majority, for reasons not known to me, but perhaps creditable ones.

    I have to confess I voted Lib Dem today as there was no BNP candidate and I happen to know some of the LibDems here personally and know them to be first rate, as happens sometimes in local govt.

    Posted by RW | May 1, 2008, 9:17 pm
  20. If anyone should vote BNP then of course it should be Leeds. I have never been there but I am aware that they have a high proportion of Muslims living there.

    After Prince Harry bravely fought in Afghanistan and came home, he was warned for his own good not to travel to Leeds to see his girlfriend Chelsy Davy as there would be a backlash against him from the Muslims!

    It is disgraceful, but at least the people of Leeds have picked up on this and will vote in higher numbers in future for the BNP.

    Posted by EnglandxChick | May 10, 2008, 3:20 pm

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