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Chairman rebuts Greens poll claims
Thursday, 7th May 2009
I realise that election time leads some politicians to be – how to put this – economical with the facts, but Peter Cranie's piece advocating a "vote Green to keep the BNP out" policy violates even the most basic standards of adherence to reality.
How can anyone write about the 2004 European election results and not mention the most salient fact about them: that Ukip got 16.1% of the vote? That Ukip came third, pushing the Lib Dems into fourth place?
When talking about the north-west region, how can you talk about keeping the BNP out without talking about who did keep the BNP out? Ukip, that is, with 11.7% of the vote. Just to remind everyone, here are the results from that region in 2004.
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