BNP set to win seats as support surges
The British National Party is on course to make significant gains in the local elections in England in two weeks time, according to a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph today.
It shows that seven per cent of voters are ready to back the far-Right party and that 24 per cent have considered voting BNP in the past or are thinking of doing so now.
In the eyes of almost three-quarters of potential BNP supporters, Britain “almost seems like a foreign country”.
At the general election last year, the BNP won 4.3 per cent of the vote across the 116 seats it contested.
The poll suggests that the BNP draws its support more from the Conservatives than from Labour - and is gaining ground at the expense of the Liberal Democrats and UK Independence Party.
If you factor out the non-white voters, that’s quite a significant proportion of the white vote. Of course a vote for the BNP mightn’t necessarily be a complete endorsement for their policies, rather a protest vote to spite the mainstream parties who have neglected certain classes of people over the years.
The Guardian reports on another poll here