There is an interesting electoral map on a Labour blog showing the Labour, Green and BNP votes. What is quite interesting is that there is a direct correlation between the Green and BNP votes, i.e. the Greens are stronger in the areas with low BNP votes and vice versa. It demonstrates again, as the Assembly and Mayoral elections did last year, that there are now 2 Londons. One is multicultural and liberal - the other is closed, reactionary and xenophobic.
there is a similar inverse correlation between the Green and BNP vote share on the English regional results.
ReplyDeletenow that's depressing (the map in the link) Havering (where I'm from btw) was run by Labour and had three Labour MPs not too long ago, now they're coming in fourth to the BNP!
ReplyDeleteand another thing
ReplyDelete"White, working class outer London is still proving rather elusive for the Greens"
and it isn't for Labour?