VOTERS across Birmingham and the Black Country turned out in force to denounce the far right's "politics of hate".
The feared rise of the far right in the city failed to materialise as Labour and the Tories decimated the votes of the three extremist parties.
Labour held two key British National Party target seats in Shard End and Kingstanding, taking almost half the total votes cast in each ward.
The story was the same in Sandwell, where the BNP failed to gain a single new seat.
The results were a crushing blow to the far right parties hopes of gaining a foothold in the Council chamber.
