[oboogie]

I, of course, knew about that slogan and the campaign but I didn't know Griffiths was behind it - I'd always thought it was Enoch Powell.

[The Rationalist]

You think all of this has gone away and then you wonder how many West Midlands voters of a certain generation still hold on to those types of views (albeit targeted against a different minority) when they voted Conservative in 2019!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Powell was an MP not faraway but I think he swerved the Smethwick campaign.

[davidjay]

You think all of this has gone away and then you wonder how many West Midlands voters of a certain generation still hold on to those types of views (albeit targeted against a different minority) when they voted Conservative in 2019!

Sandwell and Dudley councils in particular had a BNP/UKIP presence and you don't have to go far around there to hear the sort of bigotry you'd hoped had died out decades ago.