Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
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6.8% seems like an enormous amount.
We would obviously prefer there not to be that many people voting for a sort of outrightly racist party.
But I was looking at Makerfield in 2010, which is kind of height of the BNP under Nick Griffin.
being up there.
7.4% at that point.
So if anything, that kind of element has gone down a bit.
And certainly some of the big kind of scares of the 1990s, I mean, it's not directly comparable because these are council elections, but there was a point in 1993 where a BNP councillor got in in Millwall in the East End with 33.9% of the vote.
Again, in Barking, which famously, Barking and Dagenham Council in 2006, before the big fight back led by Margaret Hodge, which West Streeting was also very involved in, 17.2% there, and that made them the official opposition on that council.
So again, not directly comparable parties, not directly comparable situations, but we have been in situations like this before where the extreme right, as opposed to just the right wing,
come in and take a substantial proportion of the vote.
But not to say it isn't concerning.
Well, I think this is where it makes... It really does make it Nigel Farage's problem.
That was very obvious in one of his many petulant videos that he's put out recently.
But the one directly after this where he said, well, what more do you want from me?
You know, I am the right-wing hope.
You have to vote for me.
That one.
Yes, that one.
Yeah, yeah.
Um...
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