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Labour beaten into fifth place by BNP and Greens in Henley

John Howell, the Conservative candidate, has comfortably won the Henley by-election with 19,796 votes.

Marking Gordon Brown's first anniversary as Prime Minister, Labour Party candidate Richard McKenzie was beaten into fifth place with a meagre 1,066 votes - losing his deposit.

Perhaps more surprising was that Labour was beaten by the Green Party and BNP candidates.

1:40am Friday 27th June 2008

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Posted by: Mr Ison, England on 1:49am Fri 27 Jun 08
New Labour's powers of persuasion do seem limited to areas where their activist stuff ballot boxes,steal ballot boxes or postalize the vote.

The Tories probably emulate the US Gubernatorialist and win the deceased vote.
Posted by: ricky, oxford on 2:25am Fri 27 Jun 08
its ironic that with gordon banging on about oil and all the travel,it still hit record highs..no one listens to him!
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 8:07am Fri 27 Jun 08
Bnp beat Labour in Henley.
Now there's a surprise.
BNP- working class party?
You bet!!
Posted by: Eddy Grundy, Ambridge on 8:27am Fri 27 Jun 08
John Howell:
Conservative 19,796
Stephen Kearney:
Lib Dems 9,680
Mark Stevenson:
Green 1,321
Timothy Rait:
BNP 1,243
Richard McKenzie:
Labour 1,066
Chris Adams:
UKIP 843

And yet the BNP party was still less popular to the likes of the Greens.

Sits back for the howls of objection at calling the BNP racist - which they are.
Posted by: chas on 8:49am Fri 27 Jun 08
The majority are fed up with Labour taking away our freedom and liberties. Ask David Davis.
Posted by: Knee Jerk on 9:21am Fri 27 Jun 08
Bnp beat Labour in Henley.
Now there's a surprise.
BNP- working class party?
You bet!!


One swallow doesn't make a Summer.

i.e. This does not prove your point.

If/when they score a large number of votes in a predominantly 'working class' (whatever that is) area what will you say then?

It does show that a growing number of people (worringly) believe that voting for this lot is the answer though.

By the way, have you been to Henley and I don't mean just the regatta? If you explore the area a little you'll find a wide range of wealth and (what you'd call) social classes, it's reputation as a picture postcard town is quite misleading.
Posted by: Knee Jerk on 9:24am Fri 27 Jun 08
oops, can't type, that should have said:

worryingly
Posted by: My right, Oxford on 9:24am Fri 27 Jun 08
Go BNP Party...Get well away from the "old" BNP and start campaigning for the British people to support a British Party.
Why does this Country shy away from all things British?.
Look at the state we're in...We need to stand up and be proud of our Country again..Support ST.Georges day..Support everything we were.
And why is'nt the Government doing anything to help us Taxpayers with the fuel situation etc..Money grabbing *******. Gas, Electric is going up another 40% on top of the 15% increase already this year..What is going on???
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 9:56am Fri 27 Jun 08
Knee Jerk wrote:
Bnp beat Labour in Henley. Now there's a surprise. BNP- working class party? You bet!!
One swallow doesn't make a Summer. i.e. This does not prove your point. If/when they score a large number of votes in a predominantly 'working class' (whatever that is) area what will you say then? It does show that a growing number of people (worringly) believe that voting for this lot is the answer though. By the way, have you been to Henley and I don't mean just the regatta? If you explore the area a little you'll find a wide range of wealth and (what you'd call) social classes, it's reputation as a picture postcard town is quite misleading.
It's a Tory stronghold. Has been for years. Tells me all I need to know about the social mix there.
The fact you deny the existence of social difference merely indicates its a rather sheltered area.
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 10:00am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:
Knee Jerk wrote:
Bnp beat Labour in Henley. Now there's a surprise. BNP- working class party? You bet!!
One swallow doesn't make a Summer. i.e. This does not prove your point. If/when they score a large number of votes in a predominantly 'working class' (whatever that is) area what will you say then? It does show that a growing number of people (worringly) believe that voting for this lot is the answer though. By the way, have you been to Henley and I don't mean just the regatta? If you explore the area a little you'll find a wide range of wealth and (what you'd call) social classes, it's reputation as a picture postcard town is quite misleading.
It's a Tory stronghold. Has been for years. Tells me all I need to know about the social mix there. The fact you deny the existence of social difference merely indicates its a rather sheltered area.
Besides there are places like Barking and Dagenham where the BNP have managed to convince people with social anxieties that its immigrants (especially asians) that are to blame.
It is still a bourgeois led party and thus of no real relevance to estate dwellers.
Posted by: Al, Dublin on 10:10am Fri 27 Jun 08
My Right - Fuel bill charges are at the mercy of privatised companies who are more worried about paying dividends to the Henley set. Do you really think that a party even more deeply right wing than the Conservatives (who privatised these companies) are going to lower these costs for you? I don't think so.

Anyway, I can't actually see a link between being 'British' and fuel costs. High fuel costs are a global problem. If Gordon Brown reduces fuel duty on petrol then the money will have to come from somewhere else. At least you have the option to use less fuel...
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 10:46am Fri 27 Jun 08
Just been watchng videos of Timothy Rait and his pals on You tube.
Pretty much confirms my opinions.
Posted by: David, wantage on 11:54am Fri 27 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:
Just been watchng videos of Timothy Rait and his pals on You tube.
Pretty much confirms my opinions.
Since when did you need your opinions confirming?
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 12:41pm Fri 27 Jun 08
David wrote:
Alan Page wrote: Just been watchng videos of Timothy Rait and his pals on You tube. Pretty much confirms my opinions.
Since when did you need your opinions confirming?
Oh, all the time.
It's why I would never vote BNP.
Posted by: Mr Ison, England on 6:38pm Fri 27 Jun 08
A pocket of resistance?
Posted by: DanOxford on 1:48am Sat 28 Jun 08
Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 7:25am Sat 28 Jun 08
DanOxford wrote:
Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
Too right I would have voted for 'Dear Old Bob'. Now there's a man who would knock the bourgeois out of Britain
Posted by: L.B., Wallingford on 1:27pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Alan Page, obviously one of life's wastes of space and no real use to the world with views like his, and not even from this area! Go back to the hole that is Guildford and leave us to enjoy the great Thames Valley.
Posted by: Bob on 1:59pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:
DanOxford wrote: Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
Too right I would have voted for \'Dear Old Bob\'. Now there\'s a man who would knock the bourgeois out of Britain
Ah, so you're against power gained through things like wealth but for power gained through violence AND wealth, interesting...or not, what an irrelevant human being you are.
Posted by: Knee Jerk on 2:00pm Sat 28 Jun 08
It is still a bourgeois led party and thus of no real relevance to estate dwellers

Well they should stop voting for them then, shouldn't they, otherwise it gives people to totally opposite impression.
Posted by: Rockabilly Dude, Half Way To Memphis on 5:07pm Sat 28 Jun 08
I think what the Nu-Labour Alan Page really means, is that he doesn't approve of any social mix that doesn't conform to his Stalinist ideals. Social mix isn't a problem to a democrat - ot's only a problem to the new fascists of the Left.
Posted by: BBC: apology, Abingdon on 8:47pm Sat 28 Jun 08
The predictions that we made for a certain Labour win at Henley are to be found a little wide of the mark, our usual policy of predicting ANY election result as too close to call was also badly judged as usual. We will in future try to get a more broadly based sample from canvas returns and not follow too closely the Labour Candidate on his/her door-knocking campaign trail.
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 12:13am Sun 29 Jun 08
Bob wrote:
Alan Page wrote:
DanOxford wrote: Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
Too right I would have voted for \'Dear Old Bob\'. Now there\'s a man who would knock the bourgeois out of Britain
Ah, so you're against power gained through things like wealth but for power gained through violence AND wealth, interesting...or not, what an irrelevant human being you are.
Hey Bob/Dan/sockpuppets are us, if you want to hold conversations with yourself all very well and good just keep me out of it.

I think anybody with a brain would see the situation in Africa as complex.

People with brains would also be aware that it is possible to oppose both apartheid and tyrants who have used that to follow some kind of monomaniacal ego trip through.

It is why the former allies of Mugabe in the anti apartheid struggle are rightly turning against him.

Dan stills sees himself as "educated", humour can nor farther go.
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 12:16am Sun 29 Jun 08
L.B. wrote:
Alan Page, obviously one of life's wastes of space and no real use to the world with views like his, and not even from this area! Go back to the hole that is Guildford and leave us to enjoy the great Thames Valley.
Oh, I am sitting pretty here. We've just had a pub closed down because of junkie infestation.

Third safest place in the country to live apparently. As opposed to Oxford which is not only the 11th most dangerous outside London.

Not such a dump really.
Posted by: Alan Page, Guildford on 12:26am Sun 29 Jun 08
DanOxford wrote:
Oh ignore Alan Page- he would have voted for Robert Mugabe, as they both have a deep seated hatred of successful white people, take every opportunity to knock the British, and would rather preside over lawlessness, chaos, poverty and misery than admit that educated middle class white people are responsible for most of the advances of the last few centuries.
There's hilarious passage in "Time Was" where W.Graham Robertson describes his amazement at being asked to write a ballad to accompany a ballet in one of Shakespeare's plays.

"You can't do that, its holy writ, we'll be run out of town."

"You really believe the brits actually read Shakespeare?"

Anyway he finally agrees. Far from being booed, it proves the highlight of the evening. This, is what the "educated, white, middleclasses" are capable of.

I think you may find, as Fourier pointed out, that intelligence is pretty blind to social classes and colour. And it is those who are gifted with that intelligence that change the world, not the fat bombastic, vacuously dreary businessmen who cling so desperatly to their coat tails to make themselves look less of a witchburner than they are.

Posted by: L.B., Wallingford on 7:12pm Sun 29 Jun 08
Alan Page wrote:
L.B. wrote: Alan Page, obviously one of life's wastes of space and no real use to the world with views like his, and not even from this area! Go back to the hole that is Guildford and leave us to enjoy the great Thames Valley.
Oh, I am sitting pretty here. We've just had a pub closed down because of junkie infestation. Third safest place in the country to live apparently. As opposed to Oxford which is not only the 11th most dangerous outside London. Not such a dump really.
You obviously have no grasp of geography either, who mentioned Oxford? Henley is 25 miles from Oxford.

In all my time reading the comments on various subjects in the Herald, I have never come across someone who must be so mindnumbingly bored that he needs to comment on subjects that are in a paper that is in a different county to his!!!! You are a very sad little man who obviously gets very excited about different local papers. What will it be tomorrow.......the Skegness Argus?!!!....."I'm Alan Page......I can barely contain myself....there's a local election.....quick, must think of some tedious comments on the subjects that don't even relate to my life........how hilarious, everyone will love me!" Git.
Posted by: Mary T, Oxford on 10:19pm Sun 29 Jun 08
Well said L.B. it's about time Alan Page shoved all his pretentious comments from obscure people up his backside. Nobody cares about an obnoxious twit whose only claim to fame is blowing his own trumpet and being able to get the word 'bourgeois ' into every posting
Posted by: John, Oxford on 1:41pm Tue 1 Jul 08
More than a dozen killers and nearly 140 sex offenders have been deported from Britain since the start of the year, the Home Office said.

Immigration minister Liam Byrne revealed the figures as part of an update on the total number of foreign criminals removed from the country.

Overall, 2,417 foreign offenders were deported in the first six months of the year, a 22% increase on the same point in 2007.

Young lad in London - Stabbed to death by 4 N***a wananna be gangsters - shame the BNP cant get in we could clear this country up over night .

Look at all the Stabings in London and the Victims and perps - do you see any common denominator or is it cuase day em black
Posted by: Good On Us, Marston on 8:12pm Fri 4 Jul 08
MAY THE RISE OF THE BNP CONTINUE!
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