BNP win 11 seats in Barking/Dagenham
Observer | 05.05.2006 09:36 | Analysis | Anti-racism
Just hear this news.
Is it the case that the BNP have used immigrants taking housing to whip up a protest vote against the normally solid white working class Labour establishment?
I'm aware that there is a chronic shortage of social housing for those not able to buy who earn less than £30-40 000 per year and it is seen by whites as immigrants who get this housing. Thus all is needed is fash to come in and whip up the issue.
New Labour have allowed the housing market to let rip and have left the less well able behind to suffer. Offering little or nothing in the way of social housing whilst they court middle class middle England. People well into their twenties are forced to stay at their parents house because they cannot afford to rent, let alone buy. It's happening eveywhere but the problem is far more acute in the London area.
I've just hear that middle class whinging Islington-ite local MP Margaret Hodge going on about how bad BNP are. I wonder what has she done to avoid this situation developing?
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Is it the case that the BNP have used immigrants taking housing to whip up a protest vote against the normally solid white working class Labour establishment?
I'm aware that there is a chronic shortage of social housing for those not able to buy who earn less than £30-40 000 per year and it is seen by whites as immigrants who get this housing. Thus all is needed is fash to come in and whip up the issue.
New Labour have allowed the housing market to let rip and have left the less well able behind to suffer. Offering little or nothing in the way of social housing whilst they court middle class middle England. People well into their twenties are forced to stay at their parents house because they cannot afford to rent, let alone buy. It's happening eveywhere but the problem is far more acute in the London area.
I've just hear that middle class whinging Islington-ite local MP Margaret Hodge going on about how bad BNP are. I wonder what has she done to avoid this situation developing?
Comments please
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