Great Britain 2009 European Election result maps

[Hash]

Isn't that 44%+ strong Conservative ward with little UKIP presence a very affluent area?

The similarities between the BNP and UKIP are very interesting.

[minionofmidas]

The similarities between the BNP and UKIP are very interesting.

So are the differences - UKIP also doing well in the "we don't want to be part of Birmingham!" middle class suburblands of the far north.
Tieing in well with the overall differences of the two parties' bases, of course.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Slutton Four Jokes is the richest ward in Birmingham and one of the richest in the West Midlands. Vile place.

The similarities between the BNP and UKIP are very interesting.

So are the differences - UKIP also doing well in the "we don't want to be part of Birmingham!" middle class suburblands of the far north.
Tieing in well with the overall differences of the two parties' bases, of course.

If I get my way, the Sutton Coldfield parliamentary constituency would be renamed Birmingham North. The main indicator, for both parties, seems to have been whites that don't work in the public sector.

[minionofmidas]

Slutton Four Jokes is the richest ward in Birmingham and one of the richest in the West Midlands. Vile place.

I think Hash meant Edgbaston.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Slutton Four Jokes is the richest ward in Birmingham and one of the richest in the West Midlands. Vile place.

I think Hash meant Edgbaston.

Ah, right. Well that's a Con 37 area. If he meant Edgbaston then the answer is yes and no - Birmingham wards are huge. Most of Edgbaston proper is pretty posh, of course (it was developed as an exclusive suburb and hasn't changed in the way that similar places in, say, Manchester have) though not in the way it used to be (we're talking highly paid public sector workers rather than industrialists and managers - most of them are in Slutton these days) but as you get closer to Ladywood it starts to fray - subdivisions, social housing and so on. Absurdly the ward currently includes part of Deritend (proper inner city territory and once classic slumland). Needless to say, the Tory vote doesn't come from these areas (turnout in them is usually piss poor). The ward also includes the main University (and quite a few students, even though most of them live in Selly Oak ward) and the Q.E (the latter meaning that I lived, if that's the right word, in the ward in most of June and a lot of July).