Barking & Dagenham's residents have spoken. Their voice is loud in their resounding NO NO NO to BNP. It is time BNP got scrapped. The ideology has no place when most of the Britons are foreign born. And of those who are white skinned Caucasians, most still do not approve an ideology that gives one race superiority over the other. Trying to introduce cast-rating in United Kingdom would never work.

Something is not right here, I fail to see how Labour can have increased their seat here and yet lost margins everywhere else. I can see Griffin not winning but it defies belief that the BNP lost all their councillors when they were doing so well in polling.

I suggest that Labour have gerrymandered something and for the record am not a BNP supporter.

People are acting like it's the Bnp's fault that the country is falling apart.They voted for the same parties that created the mess in the first place.So all the Bnp has to do now is simply sit and watch.

something rotten about the state of the borough. BNP tell it like it is – labour does not like being exposed as a party that get its mandate from immigrants. Immigrants and city folk – that is the labour vote. Labour has sold this country for the sake of votes. BNP will be back and the truth about rotten labour is still to come as Brown bites the dust without a Clegg to stand on.

Trevor: The reason for Labour's vote holding was a strong dislike of the BNP. I'm normally a Lib Dem voter, but I would certainly have voted Labour if I lived in B & D for fear of the BNP winning. As it happened, the Great British Public gave them the kicking they richly deserved, and my fears would have been misplaced.

The BNP got 6,620 votes. More than a quarter thant Labour managed to obtain. It's may be a defeat but it's hardly crushing, it's hardly a case of everyone in Barking saying 'no' to the BNP. More than six-and-a-half-thousand still have a sense of patriotism and national identity.

All this proves is that Barking has a lot of unemployed people on benefits and immigrants, these being Labour's key voters.

Besides, a lot of Labour's votes are probably fraudulent. There have been more than fifty criminal investigations into postal vote fraud in this election and it always seems to be Labour supporters doing it.

Edward, please do not equate patriotism and national identity with blatant racism. The BNP is a party with extremely racist views that the vast majority of the UK find abhorrent. "Indigenous Britons"? Please! One look at the BNP website tells you how little they understand of the world.

Your comment about Labour key supporters being unemployed or immigrants shows how little you understand the modern day UK. I could go on about BNP key supporters, perhaps highlighting the assault of an asian man by BNP candidate Bob Bailey, caught on camera and available for all to see.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm

With their own candidates actively looking for violence (Bob Bailey started the exchange with the words "How many of you's are robbers", being the eloquent charmer of the party) can you really wonder why they weren't elected.

As for the accusation of labour having "a lot of......fraudulant" votes. The evidence of this would be where?

Bitter much?

The British National Party almost tripled its vote from the 2005 General Election. With a fairer voting system (PR) the BNP would have approximately 60 MPs.

On the above statistics, I very much doubt the Party would want a change of leadership.

Although not a member of the BNP myself, this Party has progressed dramatically, despite the hostility from the media.

BNP only ace is the muslim card, apart from that what else? BNP paint the people who voted for conservatives as "sell outs" to white race, mostly white majority voted for conservatives.

Talk about triple vote lol, will they vote same next election, who knows.

So – Edward Harris – racism and fascism are a "sense of patriotism and national identity?" Hating racial minorities and wanting a policy of forced deportations even for born British citizens because of their skin colour is "a sense of patriotism and national identity?"
Well, is "British" equal to "whiteness?"

This "sense of patriotism and national identity" is sickening, even for Britain!

In reply to Trevor...
The anti-BNP campaign unleashed over a thousand activists into Dagenham and Barking over a three month period, as a result of that campaign the BNP both lost their election to get an MP elected and had all their councillors wiped out. It should also be mentioned that the BNP councillors rarely attended council meetings and did nothing in their capacity to represent the people who voted them in, so their demise at the elections was hardly a surprise.

The only way Labour will have increased their vote is there are recent more immigrants in Barking compared to a few years back.

Personally I think the BNP would have done better if Nick Griffin had not run for the seat and left in beneath the radar. There is no question that hundreds of thousands were spent on the "stop the BNP campaign" and also I am sure other inducements were offered to get so many Labour voters to the polling stations.

I would have believed this result if the Conservatives or Lib Dems had one but for Labour to increase their vote to this extent in contrast to the rest of the UK does not make any sense

Isn't it illegal for groups such as Searchlight to openly campaign for Labour?

Its a sad day for the locals of Barking to have another 4 years of Hodge. The borough will continue to go downhill as immigrants are treated better than locals and more and more immigrants arrive.

In the mean time hypocrites like Billy Bragg and the Hope Not Hate luvvies will go back to their rural white enclaves feeling smug........

If any white British people who actually live in Barking did vote Labour (questionable) then they deserve all they get.