Anyone else noticed there's a Millwall ward by-election for Tower Hamlets council being held on the May 1st polling day.  This was of course the ward that elected the first ever BNP councillor - Derek Beackon - at a by-election in 1993.  All three seats in the ward are currently held by Tories, partly because no nationalist candidates stand there any more, partly because the Labour vote has been split by Respect. This time both Respect and the new 'Left List' will be standing.  There will also be a May 1st by-election in another Tower Hamlets ward - Weavers - where the BNP got 16% in a by-election in 1995. This was an even better BNP result than it looked because a 'rebel' Liberal candidate was also standing (and came second) on a vaguely racial nationalist campaign. Actually that ward no longer exists, they changed the borders a couple of years after we won it:rolleyes: