What changed this time is Labour voters in particular bailed on the whole thing, Labour strongholds started giving out seats like candy.
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What changed this time is Labour voters in particular bailed on the whole thing, Labour strongholds started giving out seats like candy.
no, you're right, it's the intellectual elite voting for the BNP
Being an ex-labour supporter hardly singles a person out for Brain of Britain, while being a BNP supporter most definitely puts a person towards the bottom of the pile. Perhaps we should do an IQ test for a selection of you BNP spanners and a selection of those with strong views against. I think we all know what the result would be.
Quoting from the article you link"...........Among BNP voters the pattern is very different: 36 per cent manual workers, 11 per cent professionals.
....................One third of them read the Sun or Daily Star as against one in five adults generally; just 6 per cent of BNP voters read the upmarket papers (Times, Telegraph, Guardian etc), which is less than half the national average."
Yes, they sound like pillars of society from this.
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same here , abstain from elections is a serious threat to democracy imho. lots of people have died for this privilege yet we dont bother.
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Lol so let me get this right if someone does manual work or reads the sun that makes them scum that has no rights? because that is certainly what you seem to be saying.
This is why the BNP only do well in areas where average education and employment levels are low, this is not new, I'm unsure why their supportrs keep trying to claim otherwise...
Not at all - you claimed that the article suggested BNP voters were not uneducated. I maintain that people who are highly educated are less likely to work in manual jobs and read the sun. Obvious fact I'm afraid.
I also maintain that a highly educated and intelligent person would not have voted for the BNP - a point the article you quoted does absolutely nothing to refute.
I am not trying to limit anyone's rights, that's the job of the BNP. If you are still having trouble understanding, just let me know and I will explain more simplistically.
Whilst he did make a generalisation, as far as generalisations go, it isn't that unfair to suggest that Sun readers are not the most politically minded.
In a court case, The Sun once pleaded as their defence "everyone knows our paper bends the truth, you can't honestly expect our readers to believe what we write", which I think says it all.
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And according to the research most of the people who voted for the BNP didn't do so for political reasons,they voted due to having enough of immigration, the EU and feeling abandoned by the main parties. The research also shows that a large number of non BNP voters have exactly the same feelings, does this mean that the non BNP voters who feel the same way are poorly educated/"not exactly the pillars of society"
Nope as they didn't vote for a racist party. Clearly defined as racist by their own publications.
Oh, ok.
Ah, you're right. Nothing political there!
In what regard are immigration, inclusion in the EU and feeling abandoned by political parties, not political reasons for a vote? You've lost me at point one I'm afraid.
Being concerned about immigration is not inherently racist, voting for the BNP is inherently racist due to effectively endorsing their policies. In my view, if you have aligned yourself with a fascist party with policies based on hate and poorly thought out bile, you had better hope that this is because you are uneducated rather than because you are just a hateful ****.
I think the rise in BNP is not because more people are attracted to them but because of the failings of the main parties. The number of people voting for BNP in the areas they got in actually was less than in 2004, it was just because of a scattered Labour/Tory/Lib Dem vote. And it's Labour's fault - they knew they'd do badly in these elections and played it down. It was their responsibility to increase turnout and they didn't bother to publicise it. Now we have 2 BNP MEPs. Poor.
So, people who didn't vote can feel guilty. As can people who voted BNP. It's an embarrassment to the UK.
So, people who didn't vote can feel guilty. As can people who voted BNP. It's an embarrassment to the UK.
Skidder you sound like an anti bnp protester lol
Didn't throw any eggs lately did you?
no eggs chucked yet
" Home Office figures show decline in gun death toll "
" Knife crime homicides up on previous year " hmmmm
" The number of children murdered by their parents has risen by about one-third in the past year, from 24 to 33 victims "
" The annual homicide figures show that the total number of murders in England and Wales in 2006/07 fell from 769 to 757 "
That is a huge amount...
But hold on a min
" Those who died in shootings rose over the same period - the year to April 2007 - from 49 victims to 59 "
Not very good Dolph
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