IPPR report on why peolpe vote BNP

[northernladuk]

This is NorthernLad you're talking about.
From his posts on other issues, he's not the sharpest tool in the box.
Although tool he certainly is.

Shame I am not the one constantly named in other threads for similar crimes across the board hey... Obviously I am still in the masters shadow here hey.

[Gibbon]

According to the report, and I'm not commenting on whether it's right or wrong, Barking and Dagenham are the main campaiging area for the BNP hence the higher level of support. B&D is the only one of the BNP's top 10 areas of support that does not have lower than average immigration.

In areas where the BNP do not campaign increased immigration does not appear to produce increased BNP support, if anything it has the opposite effect.

The implication from the study is that BNP campaigning generates the appearance of a problem that the BNP offer a "solution" to.

Interesting and reasoned, I must be on the wrong Forum, must get back to ClassicalFeckWits.com

[malvolio]

I might be missing something here, but if an area has a high number of immigrants, surely the chances of BNP getting a high approval rating is actually quite low because the imigrants won't vote for them...?

[DaveB]

I might be missing something here, but if an area has a high number of immigrants, surely the chances of BNP getting a high approval rating is actually quite low because the immigrants won't vote for them...?

They didn't poll individuals, rather they looked at the social and economic conditions in each of the 152 Local Authority areas looking at things like social cohesion, levels of unemployment, education, economic activity and immigration.

One of the things the BNP claim is that areas of high immigration are the areas that vote BNP, because of concerns about the immigration. This report contradicts that suggesting that in areas that have high immigration the population as a whole are less likely to support the BNP.

[Drewster]

Doesn't seem to be the case in Barking.

Ah.. Barking... How I miss Barking.....

Moved away from the area 20+ year ago.... it was the centre of National Front (pre-BNP Hitler Youth/Neo-Nazi Skinhead "Political" Party for the benefit of you youngsters) campaigning even then........