BNP Leader to stand in Keighley

[scorpiogurl]

I have heard that Nick Griffin is going to stand for parliament in the Keighley constituency. Is this significant constituency for him to stand in? Surely he has no chance of winning it..........but he may have an effect on the final outcome. I believe labour won it narrowly last time!!!

[Peter]

Have the BNP been stirring up racial trouble in this part of the world recently? They generally stand high profile candidates such as Griffin in seats where they have been stirring things up.

Last times result:

Lab - 20,888
Con - 16,883
LD - 4,722
UKIP - 840

I don't think there are enough votes out there for the BNP to swing the result to the Tories, but it just might happen if they take loads of working class, white Labour voters, which would nominally be their aim.

[scorpiogurl]

I am unaware of any direct agitation by the BNP in Keighley or any successes they may have had in local elections there.

As far as I understand, Keighley is a racially mixed town in West Yorkshire, just up the road from Bradford and just over the pennines from Burnley.......where I am aware of a BNP prescence.

I was just wondering why he didn't stand in either Oldham or Burnley give the recent history there!!! Anyway....let us hope his intervention is fruitless.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Griffin stood as a council candidate in Royton (a suburb of Oldham) a while back and got stuffed and the BNP's antics on Burnley Council haven't exactly endeared them to most voters.

Think of the BNP as a vampire and Keighley as a fresh neck

[phk]

I wish a BNP-like party would spring up in the US; a lot of hicks would leave the GOP.

[Silent Hunter]

I am unaware of any direct agitation by the BNP in Keighley or any successes they may have had in local elections there.

As far as I understand, Keighley is a racially mixed town in West Yorkshire, just up the road from Bradford and just over the pennines from Burnley.......where I am aware of a BNP prescence.

I was just wondering why he didn't stand in either Oldham or Burnley give the recent history there!!! Anyway....let us hope his intervention is fruitless.

Keighley's MP is Ann Cryer, mother of John Cryer (Hornchurch). She's quite leftwing.

[Ben.]

Surprised he didn’t run in Dewberry myself, Shahid Malik perhaps the most prominent Muslim in the Labour Party is standing there while the Tory candidate is also Asian, would seem fertile ground for mindless racism to me… that said Malik will cruise it IMHO. 

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Surprised he didn’t run in Dewberry myself, Shahid Malik perhaps the most prominent Muslim in the Labour Party is standing there while the Tory candidate is also Asian, would seem fertile ground for mindless racism to me… that said Malik will cruise it IMHO. 

Dewsbury is traditionally stronger territory for Labour than Keighley (pronounced Keithlee. More or less)

[Platypus]

Me and my australian eyes were skipping the h, I was saying it "Caylee". If you hadn't told me, and I spotted the h, it would probably have been "Caflee".