London Borough Elections 2006

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You might like this:

http://www.londoncommunications.co.uk/media/intelligence/downloads/May06electionPredict.pdf

Has some stats and history.

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I think Labour will be seriously bloodied in London, but they should hold up better elsewhere. Seems to have been a high, by locals standards, turnout.

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Unconfirmed reports that Respect will be the largest party in Tower Hamlets according to SKY

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The far right rises...

BNP and Respect at that!

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Tories hold Wandsworth (sun rises in east, sets in west etc)... and fears of a Labour wipeout were unfounded. We lost just one seat (far better than I'd have expected...)

Theres an elephant in the room behind you

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4 seats for the BNP so far in Barking

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Anthony Wells put the new seat of Poplar and Limehouse as a Conservative target- something close to a 6% swing however. On Thursday Millwall and Blackwall & Cubbit Town Wards returned 6 Tories (on a low turnout) and 1 from St Katherine's and Wapping. It should be an interesting one to watch.

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Harold Hill

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Harold Hill

You like BNP success?

No-  It's swung Conservative according to your map. One BNP councillor it seems- but thats not why I like the result.

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Respect to contest Tower Hamlets result allegedly. No idea if this is old news.

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I don't think a single Trot got elected actually). It's clear now that they don't, and not only that, it's clear that they don't understand them either.

Thats correct, and the SWP must be fuming. I can't see Respect lasting much longer. The SWP sold out to what amounts to a socially conservative agenda (though Respect do their best not to talk about it as arguments can arise, sucha s the grudging inclusion of gay rights as a motion after it had been ignored) and are now suffering the consequences of being a meber of what is in effect a Muslim party. You couldn't put a paper between their economic policy and the economic policy of the BNP. They are two peas in the same pod though both would be loathed to admit it.

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I'm not entirely sure what to say about this...

BNP counciller "directed Gay Porn film"

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'It's not porn-its art'

That old chestnut To be fair to the BNP scumbag, at least he didn't go on a homophobic diatribe.