Poor Fash : Damaged Goods

Standing next to fascists is sometimes a cue for jostling and unpleasantness.

Perhaps even Jean Marie Le Pen and Nick Griffin's car getting rocked and unfortunately damaged when they came into our area. I know they were scared as I could see their eyes through the smoked glass.

But in this context as 5% of those in a room with 95% dedicated to democratic processes they can surely relax and enjoy the fruits of their brilliant campaign literature. Winning the master race.

But they're not relaxed and they are unsettled. Their candidate hovers over one of the Newton Heath and Miles Platting tables.

"I thought it would be better than this", he says to his accomplice, "This is Newton Heath and I've not seen a single vote for us". He is desperately unhappy in the here and now. And this is probably the way he is all the time.

Anti- reality means unhappy I guess for these fascists. You only have to look at Nick Griffin for a few seconds to realise that this is damaged goods.

I've been watching properly and I have seen a few votes for him. But in the Newton Heath boxes it is running very low. Probably the BNP folk are voting for us or the Tories this time. Depending whether they are proper national socialists (ours?) or just horrible soft racists (theirs?). They aren't going to be so scummy as to vote for the fascists with £50 suits.

They probably got more votes in unexpected places. Where there has been no concerted anti-fascist work. Students and wild individuals spread around the constituency.

But I don't tell the fascist candidate I've seen a couple of votes for him. Just move aside gently as he politely says "excuse me" in his muddle class way. Just hope my Manchester Against Racism pin badge and his lack of electoral support is burning a hole in his sad fascist ideals.

He will lose his deposit. And he's also spent hundreds on unreconstructed fascist fliers to ever household in the constituency.