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John -- I want to take you back fifteen years and talk to you about East London. In Barking and Dagenham in 2006 the BNP won 12 seats on the council, averaging 41% of the vote in the wards in which they stood, and became the official opposition on the council. I'll be honest with you - when this happened, I felt a sense of despair. It would have been easy to give up at that point, but we didn't - instead we got organised. We spent the next four years doing everything we could to make sure that we'd never feel that way again. We knocked on doors, we delivered leaflets and we engaged in proper, meaningful community organising. In the 2010 election the BNP lost every single seat that they had won four years before. It wasn't just a happy accident - it was because people like me and you decided that enough was enough, and did what needed to be done. The Brexit Party are a different threat to the BNP, but stopping them will take the same thing. It was complacency that let the BNP win those council seats in 2006, and we can't risk letting anything like that happen again. I'll be honest with you - not nearly enough people have signed up to volunteer in this election. We're doing everything we can online, but if we don't get out and knock doors we'll never get our message across to the people who need to hear it most. John - will you step up now and sign up to volunteer for HOPE not hate during this election? Nick Lowles, |
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