  A few years ago we said with certainty it would be Oldham, and what a non-event that turned out to be. Not the fault of the local BNP, I hasten to add. Now? I hear you say Stoke, but I won't hold my breath....   The rise of Oldham was due to a riot, the rise of Stoke has been grass-root work since 1993(there has also bee a lot more division in oldham BNP than Stoke) In the last local elections in Stoke the Labour party stood in all 20 seats and got 12 000 votes, the BNP stood in 10 and got 8 000 votes, that's pretty impressive.     (I did not mean to say grass root work does not get done in oldham, but it  was  the riot that helped them)