Poll suggests that BNP success was due to Labour failure

It gets worse for Gordon Brown.  A YouGov poll for Channel 4 has just come up with the following findings:

“The BNP won its first seats in the European parliament not because its supporters are all racist, but because many voters feel insecure and let down by the main parties. Our exclusive poll reveals wider causes of disenchantment.

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Forty-six percent (46%) of all voters agree that “there is no real difference these days between Britain‘s three main parties”. Among Green, UKIP and BNP voters, the proportion who fail to see a “real difference” climbs to 60% or more (69% of BNP voters).

One of the most startling findings came when we tested anecdotal reports that many BNP voters were old Labour sympathisers who felt that the party no longer speaks up for them. As many as 59% of BNP voters think that Labour “used to care about the concerns of people like me but doesn’t nowadays”.