Bitheway, with respect to the "resistible rise of the BNP"
... and specifically with respect to analysis of their underlying support in the North West England euroconstituency, I think that although I clearly lost the battle, I might have won the war. In the 2001 general election, the BNP marked its high-water mark with 16% of the vote in Oldham. In the 2011 local election, it wasn't able to run a single candidate there.
I will just also note that I was basically robbed even when losing the battle - I would totally have ended up right, except that the Euro elections took place at the height of the expenses scandal, which depressed turnout through the floor.
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