On the Knocker in B and D
John Gray reports here with pictures on canvassing at the weekend in the St Marks Gate ward in the Chadwell Heath area of Barking and Dagenham. There’s a council by-election on Thursday and the BNP who are standing are likely to be bouyed up by their Henley result (although they lost their deposit there too). The other two ward councillors are Labour but nothing is in the bag. On GLA results the BNP would have won Jon Cruddas’s constituency if transposed to a general election.
It was a sunny day and reactions were mixed in this suburban patch. No-one openly told me they would be voting BNP but I wonder if that’s for fear of offending a small brown female. A couple of rather brusque repondents said they would be “deciding on the day”. The Asian male on our team did have a couple of people openly declaring they would be putting their X in the fascist corner to him. Most were Labour or not in or not answering though. The call to arms to which I responded went up here on Facebook. Contact Sam (details in the link) who I imagine knows details of more action in the run up to polling day if you can lend a hand.
June 30, 2008 at 12:38 pm
How much- if at all- do you think Harriet Harman’s announcement of the equalities bill will shore up Labour votes in this ward versus driving the BNP vote over what Minette Marin yesterday called ‘institutionalised inequality’.
July 1, 2008 at 6:47 pm
“deciding on the day” is voter speak for they’d rather eat their own arm off than vote for the party canvassing them. If they’re going to support you they will say.
July 2, 2008 at 12:04 pm
or perhaps if they don’t want to vote for you ‘in true British style’ they’d rather not say.
July 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Interesting. I’d be interested to know what concerns are coming up on the doorsteps and whether parties other than Labour and the BNP are running any kind of campaign. Anyone up for enlightening this ignorant trot?
March 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I LIVE IN DAGENHAM OR AFRICA AS ITS NOW KNOW LABOUR SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF WHAT ITS DONE TO THIS COUNTRY A GOVERMENT IS MEANT TO LISTEN AND SERV ITS PEOPLE NOT DO WHAT IT WANTS ANYWAY PASS STUPID LAWS NO ONE ASKED FOR LET SCUM IN AND GIVE THEM MORE RIGHTS THAN ITS OWN PEOPLE YOU WANT TO CALL ME RACIST FINE I DONT REALLY CARE WHAT LABOUR THINKS ANYMORE IT NEVER LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE I DONT THINK LABOUR WILL GET IN AGAIN IN MY LIFETIME ATLEASTE I HOPE NOT IM VOTING FOR BNP OUR RIGHTS FIRST HOW MOST POEPLE THOUGHT IT WAS WITH LABOUR LOOK AFTER YOUR OWN BEFORE ANYONE ELSE HOW STUPID ARE THE LABOUR POLITICANS IM SICK OF THEM AND THERE STUPID LAWS