Barnsley: BNP gains with ‘protest vote against establishment’

It is “collier’s Monday” at the Collingwood pub in Bolton-on-Dearne near Barnsley . The bar is packed but none of those drinking Yorkshire bitter and munching black pudding in this former pit village are miners. The pits they worked in closed in the 1980s but some traditions, such as a Monday afternoon pint, when shifts swapped over, live on. Others, such as voting Labour, are dying.