Just relating some family history to illustrate a point, Peace. I have a full e-mail from my dad about growing up in Handsworth and it bears a far closer version of what one part of England was like.

And From Our Strange But True Department

if you look carefully at the results for the 1966 General Election results in Smethwick (scroll down), you'll see in the third position a party with an eerily familiar name, click on the link.
Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)
It wasn't all hearts and flowers.

Stand and be Counted!

Olivia Beak (Ms0