May 02, 2008
Election coverage: second-stage results
Counting is due to start shortly on the second-stage results in the 2008 council elections. We'll update as we get results but you'll find the fastest updating going on in the comments, so check them out for the latest news.
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Live commenting like last night?
'Live commenting like last night?'
Not quite but as quick as we can make it.
With 100 of 159 councils officially declared, the BNP have a net gain of eight. According to the BNP's website, it's their quiet revolution.
The Beeb says
General turnout looks like it will be about 35%, similar to last year
Projected national vote share: Tories 44%, Lib Dems 25%, Labour 24%
Worst share of national vote for Labour in recent history
Surprise Tory win in Southampton and solid progress in north
Greens and BNP make little progress nationally, UKIP up 1
Bloody awful night for Gordon though so-so for the BNP. Given peoples dislike of Labour at the moment I would have expected them to do a bit better than they have so far.
Just a reminder of that idiot Lee Barnes' predictions
"I expect three BNP officials to be elected in London. If
their is fraud then only Richard will get elected.
Around the country I expect 40 new councillors to be elected and us to come
second in about 120 other places.
The Greens will stay as they are but the One London will vanish as quickly as a
communist at the bar when it is their round.
Ken Livingstone will be replaced by Boris Johnson as London Mayor and the Lib
Dems will be wiped out as per their candidate."
"Not quite but as quick as we can make it."
Fair enough.
Post from NWN:
Bring back Sharon Ebanks. Look at the results she achieved in Birmingham for the BNP in 2006. The way she was treated by the BNP was disgusting. The BNPs vote in Birmingham is down by 14,000 votes since she left.
Acocks Green, 2006-927
2007-536
2008-617
Aston-2006-170
2007-136
2008-105
Bartley Green, 2006-824
2007-569
2008-436
Billesley, 2006-1034
2007-753
2008-663
Bordesley Green, 2006-390
2007-279
2008-284
Bournville, 2006-776
2007-444
2008-365
Brandwood, 2006-887
2007-588
2008-531
Edgbaston, 2006-218
2007-121
2008-90
Erdington, 2006-826
2007-494
2008-317
Hall Green, 2006-656
2007-412
2008-345
Handsworth Wood, 2006-291
2007-202
2008-217
Harborne, 2006-364
2007-265
2008-193
Hodge Hill, 2006-1123
2007-686
2008-526
Kings Norton, 2006-854
2007-602
2008-534
Kingstanding, 2006-1329
2007-673
2008-648
Ladywood, 2006-237
2007-160
2008-122
Longbridge, 2006-1048
2007-989
2008-716
Lozells and East Handsworth, 2006-79
2007-92
2008-61
Moseley and Kings Heath, 2006-347
2007-161
2008-156
Nechells, 2006-404
2007-297
2008-211
Northfield, 2006-1243
2007-1228
2008-1003
Oscott, 2006-1652
2007-894
2008-690
Perry Barr, 2006-1045
2007-549
2008-443
Quinton, 2006-681
2007-481
2008-409
Selly Oak, 2006-328
2007-230
2008-176
Shard End, 2006-1320
2007-1263
2008-999
Sheldon, 2006-1332
2007-724
2008-586
Soho, 2006-173
2007-120
2008-108
South Yardley, 2006-1001
2007-586
2008-
Sparkbrook, 2006-109
2007-106
2008-106
Springfield, 2006-323
2007-254
2008-162
Stechford/Yardley, 2006-1112
2007-707
2008-546
Stockland Green, 2006-777
2007-479
2008-339
Four Oaks, 2006-679
2007-372
2008-341
Newhall, 2006, 851
2007-618
2008-458
Trinity, 2006-718
2007-493
2008-353
Vesey, 2006-796
2007-560
2008-369
Tyburn, 2006-897
2007-550
2008-395
Washwood Heath, 2006-420
2007-254
2008-170
Weoley, 2006-1004
2007- 548
2008-406
02 May 2008 03:40
Darby says:
First reports from Olympia as the London count starts indicate that up to 40% of the ballot boxes have had their seals removed. Also some of the drop-windows on these boxes have been smashed in. An official complaint has now been made and the Evening Standard should be covering this.Turnout is reported to be in the 50-60% figure. More later
Barnes says:
The good news is that we on the way to the 40 seats I forecast.
The total number of councillors elected last night and the total number of councillors elected unopposed to parish and town councils should push our numbers up to the near 40 mark by the end of the day.
The Green One seems to be very excited about the net gain of 8 councilors:
"...one day we will rename May the 1st as BNP Day..."
Are the barnes, darby, BNP conspiracy theories starting already?
Barnes is an idiot and a liar - but we knew that anyway.
He never said anything about including parish councillors in the BNP total.
I can't see them making 25 realcouncillors - twenty at most. In the current climate, and with immigration the big issue they say it is, they should be coming along in leaps and bounds. They're not, no matter how they spin it.
And they've got to spin it, they've got to gloss over the fact that their vote fell in so many districts where they expected to do well, otherwise when BNP members step back and take a long, sober look at the reality of their position, the knives will come out for Griffin.
From the start the BNP leadership set a low threshold of expectation, so that the gaining of a few councillors would take on the appearance of a dazzling success.
It's nothing of the kind, and when the scales fall from the membership's eyes it's going to mean trouble.
Is there any independent reports of this ballot box seal business? Seems a little bizarre and hard to believe.
Reading between the lines on Stormfront they seem to know they should have done better.
Darby says:
BNP win seat on Three Rivers District Council Hertforshire.
Darby explains the problem:
The BNP logo has been reduced in size from previous years on the Stoke ballot papers and was a lot smaller than the Labour rose.
The 'quiet revolution'
is getting quieter...
Thanks to everyone at L/Unity for providing us this service:)
One of two parish pump seats is all the BNP will ever manage. So long as they never win seats at Westminster, they will never mean anything.
Bye-bye Bumbroook and Griffin!!!
And the latest Barnes babble:
It appears that for the idiots of Lancaster Unity, they expected (in their delusional states) that the BNP vote would sky rocket and also that the BNP would be dissapointed today if the BNP did not win dozens or hundreds of new council seats.
This is proof of their utter imbecility - as that sort of thing doesnt happen in a corrupt Banana Republic characterised by massive fraud and a corrupt media, such as Browns Britain.
Neither is that what the BNP wants, as the end result of any bubble of mass growth is that the bubble always bursts.....
So quiet I can hear an ant scratching its taters out in the garden.
Just an average performance by a minority party. Maybe not even average because all the circumstances they need to grow exist and they got the thumbs down almost everywhere.
"So quiet I can hear an ant scratching its taters out in the garden."
I name that Comment of the Week.
The BNP are merely a Monster Raving Loony party with Holocaust-denying credentials and genuinely mentally illness.
Leeds results here:
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/Council_and_democracy/Unitary_authorities/Elections__voting.aspx
Mixed bag for BNP (no wins) - in one ward they were even beaten by the Alliance for Green Socialism.
The nazis have regained a seat in the Mixenden council estate in Calderdale, despite the criminality of the Halifax bnp, their last neo-nazi councillor guilty of benefit fraud.
Some people never learn, and some towns continue to bring shame to themselves by voting for the bnp despite everything they do and don't do.
They never even bother turning up for Calderdale Council meetings, and yet the racist hardcore in the area still haven't cottoned onto the fact the bnp are scum and as a one-issue "political" party they cannot deliver council services and thus, they are choosing to waste their votes.
On SF Walk towards the light is trying to boost flagging confidence with this:
Sky reports BNP showing strongly in the London election.
That's Barnes.
Darby on Stoke:
Abbey Green ward now totally BNP as third BNP councillor just elected.
Getting emotional now as my friend Steve Batkin gets elected in Bentilee & Townsend.
It's funny how Odinist worshippers like Simon Darby like to call themselves Christians when stirring up hatred against Muslims, and yet, don't give a fuck about "loving they neighbour".
Odinists obviously don't believe in ying ane yang.
If Darby is indeed a Christian as he has sometimes claimed he is, he's obviously choosing to forget the final judgement.
Spending all your life stirring up racial attacks and ill feeling against non-white fellow human beings won't go down well with God.
From today's The Guardian.
BNP set to falter in bid to clinch 40 more seats
Friday May 02 2008.
The British National party performed worse than it expected in overnight election results despite gains in the Midlands, northern England and Essex.
It gained eight seats but appeared to be falling well short of its leaders' target of 40 new councillors with 100 of 159 councils declared. It may still make gains in the London assembly elections due to declare later.
Despite the collapse of Labour's support, early indications show the BNP's share of the vote fell in the wards they contested. In Sandwell in the Midlands, where they secured 33% of the vote two years ago, they got 17% this time.
"In the party's heartlands, it looks as though the share of the vote has dropped which, with the backdrop of Labour's performance, is encouraging," said Nick Lowles from the anti-racist organisation, Searchlight.
"And although there have been eight gains so far that is below what they were predicting, especially in places where they have stood before."
The number of BNP councillors is expected to increase during the day as results come in from councils such as Stoke and in Yorkshire and north-west England.
The BNP leadership says it expects to win up to three seats on the London Assembly when the votes are declared this afternoon. However, early reports of high turnout across the capital may make this less likely.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/02/thefarright.localelections
Two councillors lost in Epping
When the BNP talk of their very loud ‘quiet revolution’ (cue Steve Bell’s cartoons on Ian Duncan Smith for claiming he was the quiet man of politics), it kinda has analogies with Nigel Tufnel in ‘This is Spinal Tap’ when he points out to director Marty DiBergi that the settings on Spinal Tap’s Marshall amps could extend beyond the standard 10 mark:
Nigel Tufnel: "You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. You’re on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One louder”.
Marty DiBergi: "Why don’t you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number, and make that a little louder?"
Nigel Tufnel (after taking a moment
to let this sink in): "These go to 11”.
Does anyone know if Simone was out canvassing?
I was devastated when I heard that her engagement ring had been stolen from her by a knife-wielding Eastern European while she was hiding inside a locked wardrobe.
I was wondering could someone please pop over to the plonkers on stormfront and try and cheer them up
6088 councillors are now declared elected The BNP have managed 17
To put that into another perspective the residents association have got 31 councillors
deary deary me.
Come on someone give them a little gee up please ? darby and barnes are not really managing to float the boat for them.
Ever been to a football match where the losing fans are watching their team 3-nil down and they sing "we're gonna win 4-3"
It looks like our community really manages to piss off Barnes, and poor old Denise he has really got it in for her, in fact if you can have such a thing as cyber stalking then i would suggest thats what he is doing to her. But still its quiet obvious he is not taking his medication.
Does he really believe that no matter what name he puts to it we cannot recognise his postings, what a silly man.
Still lets be gracious hes on the loosing side, a party which is probably now bankrupt, next month Griffin will face a challenge which he will loose and the likes of Barnes will have to find something else to do.
tulip
while she was hiding inside a locked wardrobe.
Is this an allusion to some kinky sex? Simone Clarke watching Richard Barnbrook or one of her other lovers in the BNP have sex with someone else????
Kirklees' David Exley gone.
BNP fizzle out in Wrexham
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/council/electoral/local_elections_08/results_map.cfm
"and poor old Denise he has really got it in for her,"
It's like being savaged by a wet sock, Tulip.
So far:
Gained - 13
Held - 3
Lost - 3
Bad badb bad for the BNP.
How's old Nickie boy gonna blag his way out of this?
When he wants, the One Eyed Monster can piss off to croatia leaving behind his debts and liabilities (after selling his farmhouse to some brainless mug like Bumbrook)
'The total number of councillors elected last night and the total number of councillors elected unopposed to parish and town councils should push our numbers up to the near 40 mark by the end of the day.'
Bullshit. What mad bastard actually said was;
'Around the country I expect 40 new councillors to be elected and us to come second in about 120 other places.'
No mention of parish councillors there (and quite rightly so). I thought the BNP always moaned about Tony Blair and his spin machine? Seems to me the BNP has a good spinner of its own.
'Thanks to everyone at L/Unity for providing us this service:)'
No probs. It's fun.
And hooray at the David Exley news!!!
Latest post from Nick L
"I am still waiting to hear a couple more results from Stoke-on-Trent and then Solihull. Apart from that I can't think of any other councils where the BNP might have picked up any seats.
If this is the case then we safely say that the BNP has underperformed (again) this year. They have failed to capitalise on Labour's collapsing vote and it appears on first glance that the BNP share of the vote has fallen.
The other key headline is that it would appear that some of the anti-Labour vote which has gone to the BNP in recent years has switched to the Conservatives.
There is still London to come. As you will all know the BNP need just 5% to get one seat, 8% for two and 11% for three. To be honest I have no idea how it will turn out. I had thought that a high turnout was good but hearing that 70% of people voted in Bexley makes me quite worried. In 2004 the combined BNP and UKIP vote was 25.4% in the party list section.
I can't call London, though it will be quite incredible if the BNP do not get anything."
When Griffin does leave his party, Mark Collett will take over, no-doubt promising to give "the vote" to fourteen year old girls.
Good to see the child-befriender failed to win the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill Ward in Leeds, the loser.
Simon Darby and Nick Griffin must be mad not giving marching orders to Mark Collett. Forget terrorists, Collett is the reql ticking time-bomb. If he is ever arrested by the police for paedophilia, the bnp will be well and truly finished.
Thanks, Mr Darby, for keeping the self-proclaimed pervert in your party.
Kind Regards.
Fantastic day for antifascists. All they can do is spin their 13 gains into a "success" and hope to get a GLA seat. Losers.
Sky: BNP "may get one top up member" in GLA.
What happened in Epping Forest? I can't see anything about it on any of the news sites.
We can live with Bumbrook as the only GLA member. They could have elected somebody sane.
Hang on, Whoah!!!
lets get real here
Is someone seriously suggesting that Bumbrook might not become mayor of London??
Heavens to Mergatroyd!!!
Are you making a seperate post for the Assembly or just keeping it lumped in with this lot? I'm getting confused with all this infomation.
JB: We'll probably open a new post.
I need to eat. Keep posting - back soon.
London turnout actually averaged 45% not 70% as early reports suggested.
JB: We'll probably open a new post.
Thanks Denise
If you're wandering why Griffin still supports gay porno freak Bumbrook, it's cos he will get a £200,000 windfall for his place on the GLA.
£200,000 to go straight into the Croatia Retirement House Building Scheme.
I'm getting a headache through lack of sleep.....
144 of 159 councils have officially declared
Total number of elected councillors = 7545
Total number of BNP elected councillors = 33
This quiet revolution is quite entertaining
silence is golden
Antifascist said...
'Thanks to everyone at L/Unity for providing us this service:)'
No probs. It's fun.
Well, a small donation is winging it's way over to you via Paypal regardless...
'Well, a small donation is winging it's way over to you via Paypal regardless...'
I just this minute spotted that. Thank you. Believe me, it's well appreciated. :-)
The BNP: the sane choice for the insane
Another triumph reported by Darby:
By the way BNP Treasurer John Walker has been elected onto his local community council in Flintshire.
The BBC website says the BNP are up 12 so far. Not good obviously but niowhere near as bad as it could have been or as the BNP expected (hoped).
148 of 159 councils have officially declared
7756 councillors elected so far
33 BNP councillors elected
percentage wise the BNP have managed .004% of the total number of councillors elected
Quiet revolution my arse
I hope this isn't boring anyone!!!
'By the way BNP Treasurer John Walker has been elected onto his local community council in Flintshire.'
Gosh, what a triumph. They ought to make sure he stays well away from the shredder though.
'I hope this isn't boring anyone!!!'
Not me, mate. You carry on. :-)
Can anyone tell me if Excalibur, the BNP’s merchandising arm, is a limited company or not?
My latest interest is seeing if the BNP can get as many councillors as the residents association !!!!
With only 9 councils left it looks very unlikely.
I wonder what looney barnes will make of that??
BNP lost 2 seats in Epping forest
But they are still catching up with the residents association !!
Its almost neck and neck !!!
6 councils left to declare
the BNP percentage of councillors have increased to a whopping .0045% of total councillors elected
Clearly the main issue now is whether they can be as successful as the residents association!!
The Greens have spanked them
'Can anyone tell me if Excalibur, the BNP’s merchandising arm, is a limited company or not?'
Last time I looked it wasn't listed at Companies House http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ but it might be now. Who knows with the BNP and its fraudulent chums?
I notice the Excalibur site is down at the moment (perhaps to remove the Usborne children's books it has listed).
News coming out from London, turn out 35% and BNP are just under the 5%
tulip
BNP elected councillors down to .0044%
Thats 37 councilors out of 8247 elected.
RA still ahead by 6 seats
What does it mean for Barking & Dagenham if Dicky the diva gets through, well it will probably mean we wont have to put up with the drunken b.......d in the council chamber.
BUT we have major regeneration projects going forward at the moment.....the damage he could do the borough up there does not bear thinking about.
tulip
I'm pretty bleeding good!!
In case I needed to remind you of my prediction from last night.
"Prediction for Kirklees tomorrow.
No wins
David Exley in Heckmondwike to lose to Labour.
BNP leave count before all results called
3:16 AM, May 02, 2008"
2 out of 3 aint bad at all....
See ya David ya little shite LOL
Just found this on the lancashire evening telegraph website.....
Posted by: dave shapcott, burnley on 7:20pm today
No wonder the BNP never get anywhere, that candidate they stood in gannow is about 106 years old and talks like hes on very strong medication.They really need a better quality candidate if they are to get anywhere, like that nice chap that got in last year, derek Dawson, he goes to church and everything.[bold]bold[/bold]
No wonder the BNP never get anywhere, that candidate they stood in gannow is about 106 years old and talks like hes on very strong medication.They really need a better quality candidate if they are to get anywhere, like that nice chap that got in last year, derek Dawson, he goes to church and everything. Quote | Report this postPosted by: joan shapcott, burnley on 7:23pm today
Actually, we have asked the gannow candidate to leave the party repeatedly but he then starts ringing people up at all hours of the night drunk so we decided for the sake of peace to let him stand where he had absolutely no chance of getting elected. (actually, we could stand him anywhere really as he has no chance of getting elected anyway)[bold]bold[/bold]
Actually, we have asked the gannow candidate to leave the party repeatedly but he then starts ringing people up at all hours of the night drunk so we decided for the sake of peace to let him stand where he had absolutely no chance of getting elected. (actually, we could stand him anywhere really as he has no chance of getting elected anyway) raph website.....
Griffin faces new battle:
http://challengeforleadership.blogspot.com/
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