Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

North West Fascism

z3r0 | 27.02.2004 13:42 | Anti-racism | Culture | Social Struggles

Is Fascism on the rise, and if so what are you going to do about it? Reflections on the horrific election results last night in Heysham, Lancaster......

In the local bi-election last night in Heysham, Lancaster, Lancashire some Facist bugger ran for election. Young, masked and gifted there was a little crowd who send the essential message: "Fascist Scum, off our Streets" - "Fascist Scum, off our Streets" - "Fascist Scum, off our Streets"; but what can we do strategically to avoid the horrible result (details below) in the future?

This was much debated last night and in the weeks prior to the election: should we devote them and provide them with attention by going house to house and *warning* people against them? Does this just turn people towards them? Should we be there at the counting? What can we do? The election results look like Denmark where these xenophobic poor souls in a somwewhat more housebroke version similar to the BNP, is the third biggest party in parliament. And in Italy they have a Fascist Dictator - Austria is dodgy as well, and of course the King of the Hill George the Second in the White Power, erhh, I mean White House is the worst of them all.........

Act now! - meanwhile a local reflection/meeting is in the brewing - there is a need for better understanding what went wrong (apart form the fact that Tony Blair is a loser) and what can be done in the future - i.e., what strategies, and when these are decided upon, what are the specific deployment of them, all the way down to the, yes !, PR aspects of how one dresses when doing informative anti-fascist outreach). We have everything to lose and everything to win, so why not?

Pictures coming later today......... and hopefully comments to this horrific result - and oh, yes, forgot to mention: the candidate is a student in the Politics Dept. of Lancaster University!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

___________

Pasted from a local Green Party list (although by no means advertising for any political party, merely uisng their email to inform you all!!!!!!!!!):

There was a turnout of 27.22% in the Heysham South Ward by-election yesterday.

Ken Brown for the Conservatives got in with a 6 vote majority, there were 2 re-counts.

Ken Brown - Conservative: 499
Darren Clifford - Labour: 493
Paul Bamford - England First Party: 191
Christopher Greenall - MBI: 143
Terry Taylor - Lib Dems: 37
Ashley Toms - Green: 20

The MBIs have therefore lost a seat that they won with more than 500 votes at the elections in May. The Conservatives did not stand a candidate in May.

We did, Elaine Lewis picked up 183 votes - most of those were probably anti-war votes from Labour voters. There were two spoiled ballot papers at the election yesterday, one was marked for both Labour and Green.

How is it possible for an England First party to get so many votes, nearly 14% of the total cast? Though some of the England First group were disappointed and heard to remark that Michael Howard's speech in Burnley had lost them some votes to the Conservatives. It is surely more than Jon Barry's theory of alphabetic advantage, which we witnessed in the John O'Gaunt ward election between the surnames Hart, Mills and Renolds.

In a country that is more hungry for sports champions than solar panels it is surely more than voting for a logo that resembles the England football shirt with the 3 lions rather than a global sunflower.

Ashley wasn't too disappointed, apparently it is 3 more votes than the Ecology Party managed in Heysham at their first election in the 1970s and with our well known anti-nuclear power station and Heysham - M6 link road policies we aren't known for our 'positive news' attitude in that ward.The crowd of protestors outside St James Community Centre were there to greet the England First group and were there at the end to see them off, with a police escort to their cars.

z3r0

Comments

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech