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BNP seat causes stir on Twitter

Posted by Craig Kanalley on 6/07/09 • Categorized as Elections, Europe

Per BBC, the controversial British National Party (BNP) secured its first seat in the European Parliament after receiving 10 percent of the vote in Yorkshire and Humber during elections on Sunday.

Per its constitution, the BNP is “committed to stemming and reversing the tide of non-white immigration” and seeks to restore the “overwhelmingly white makeup of the British population that existed in Britain prior to 1948.”

An evaluation of tweets from the United Kingdom showed that most Brits were not happy with the result, and a flurry of comments helped “BNP” jump to No. 1 on Twitter Trends.

Tweets in London expressed outrage in no uncertain terms.

  1. Michelle Thorpe
    sea_princess (London, U.K.) its a very sad day when the BNP win a seat. Fascist parties always seem to do well in times of recession. Really scary. 08 Jun 2009 from mobile web
  2. rudids
    rudids (London, U.K.) How sad that in a year when racism seemed to be dying a deserved death the BNP is gaining in strength. WTF? Are people voting whilst drunk? 08 Jun 2009 from Twidget
  3. Niall
    hoosay (London, U.K.) @juliansimpson 120,000? The BNP vote is currently just short of 500,000 nationally, that’s a lot of retards. #eu09 08 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to juliansimpson
  4. Sylvia Morrison
    SyDyMo (London, U.K.) Can not believe the BNP have won a seat in the European Parliament! What is wrong with people???Did only extremists go to vote??? 08 Jun 2009 from web
  5. Rose Bishop
    rosefromearth (London, U.K.) My head still aches, but I am somehow managing to rant about politics. Whoever you BNP voters are, you’d best stay far away from me. 08 Jun 2009 from web
  6. Jamie Sport
    JamieSport (London, U.K.) Lost a follower. Perhaps I should stop using the word [expletive] to describe the BNP. Actually nah, they’re a big bunch of [expletive]. 08 Jun 2009 from web

Twitterers in Northern England had their own opinions on the result:

  1. Emma Raywoo
    emmar0 (Yorkshire, U.K.) is still unsure of twitter.
    is glad she voted so can have no guilt about the BNP getting a seat in her zone…     07 Jun 2009 from web
  2. Stuart Grimshaw
    Stubbs (Sheffield, U.K.) Apathy elected the BNP. If you’re from Yorkshire and Humber and didn’t vote the blame lies with you as much as a BNP voter. (via @arepeejee) 08 Jun 2009 from Tweetie
  3. McGritty
    McGritty (Manchester, U.K.) Have I just heard right? Have the BNP got a seat in Yorkshire and humberside? I’m [expletive] disgusted. And I’ve lived there :( 08 Jun 2009 from Tweetie

Some were concerned that the BNP was getting so much attention in the media and on Twitter.

  1. Pádraig
    padraigk (York, U.K.) @BBC_HaveYourSay Why are you giving time to the BNP on air but not to elected MEPs from other parties? Less attention to extremists please. 07 Jun 2009 from Twitterrific
  2. Lianne de Mello
    liannedemello (Nottingham, London, U.K.) Maybe we should stop talking about the BNP/Nick Griffin/Yorkshire, and giving them the undue attention they so desperately seek? 08 Jun 2009 from web
  3. Nick Tonge
    KinkyFro (Manchester, U.K.) The BNP trending so high isn’t very good. Any promotion is good for them. 08 Jun 2009 from TwitterFon
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  • cruXsader
    The only people that are angered are the illegal immigrants, commies, lefties, socialists, Islamofascists and their British enablers, panderers and appeasers. This seems to be the beginning of a European backlash and 'counterrevolution' against the white European cowards who would surrender Europe to the IslamoNazis without a fight.
  • Thank the Lord that real patriots are waking up to reality and voting for the wonderful and brilliant Mr Griffin!
  • English_gent
    Proud to live in England: democracy prevails. God Bless The Queen. Long may the Enlgish flag fly!
  • cruXsader
    Especially since ex-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith 'resigned', the one who banned a conservative radio talk-show host, author, Ph.d, #3 radio personality (8-10 million listeners a week) and who was awarded a "freedom of speech" award. I'm talking about Michael Savage, the American who has obtained British solicitors to sue 'crazy' Jacqui Smith who added Savage on the banned-from-Britain list as an appeasement to the Muslims who are taking over the formerly 'Great' Britain.
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