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Lib dems and looking forward to my first voting opportunity.
Who are you voting for on Thursday?
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The thing that saddens me is that you actually support a political who seem to be all for rejecting people based on the colour of their skin.
Do you even realise who you're voting for?!
Exposed: ugly face of BNP's leaders
Salford-based BNP candidate in the European elections had set his Facebook status to read "**** go home". Eddy O'Sullivan, 49, wrote: "They are nice people - oh yeah - but can they not be nice people in the ******* Congo or... bongo land or whatever?" O'Sullivan, who also joined an internet group called "**** Islam"
Garry Aronsson, Griffin's running mate for the European parliament in the North West, posts an avatar on his personal web page featuring a Nazi SS death's head alongside the statement, "Speak English Or Die!" Aronsson proclaims on the site: "Every time you change your way of life to make immigrants more comfortable you betray OUR future!" He lists his hobbies as "devising slow and terrible ways of paying back the Guardian-reading ***** who have betrayed the British people into poverty and slavery. I AM NOT JOKING."
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I simply can't comprehend how anyone would want to give such horrible people, as many in the BNP seem to be, any support at all.
Hmmmmm or so the Guardian claims, in my research ive not seen any evidence of racism in the BNP other than that claimed by the media that somehow I can never seem to substantiate
It's really not that simple. Yes the BNP are wronguns. Those of us who don't buy their policies and propaganda can see the problems, and laugh at their attempts to persuade the public. Those who cannot see the problems, and are generally disillusioned, buy into it. However, insulting someone who votes BNP is not going to change their mind, adult (mature) education just might.
I never said that there wasnt a racist element in the BNP in the past, however like everything they are capable of reform and ive seen no substantiated evidence to indicate that they have rampant racist sentiments any longer. Im not saying im definitivley correct this is just what I believe from the information I have found and if someone can give me a proven link I will stand corrected
In that video, after a BNP member deliberately approached a black girl, the guy filming asked the BNP members what criteria there was for joining the party. His response was basically "you have to be, white European, 'decent', to join the party."
That's pretty much the definition of racism, discriminating based on skin colour, isn't it? What about if someone is British, but black? Also, what sort of subjective requirement is "decent"?
would be UKIP but i didn't register as the letter was sent to a different address shame really. Although i don't really understand much about what exactly Euro Mps do other than vote on euro issues hopefully none of the candiates would give europe more power over our country so doesn't make a difference.
Or so the Guardian claims? The BNP folk don't deny it... O'Sullivan suggested "I also may have had a drink at the time," as if that in some way excuses his comments.
I think those Facebook scribblings are exactly what we should be worried about as they are more natural, haven't been through a PR machine.
Alright fair enough there maybe members of the BNP that do harbour racist sentiments, generally I think to a certain degree everybody does have some racist sentiment, this could be simply considered as stereotyping. I certainly dont consider myself to be racist in anyway shape or form although im sure im guilty of making assumptions based on the colour of ones skin, though these need not be negative, but I can understand why people who are racist would be attracted to the sense of nationalism and patriotism associated with the BNP.
As for some of the claims made by people against the BNP, ive seen no evidence of the "Jew Hating" or "Holocaust denial" retoric and as for brandishing Nationalism as Nazism or even racism itself as Nazism is just blatant stupidity
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Think I might go for Plaid Cymru, the lib dems are in power here but they have totally mucked up the city, they have dug up all the roads for over a year so they can have a bendy bus that no one wants etc
Will see tomorrow, if the bnp are running here then will go for them over plaid.
Will see tomorrow, if the bnp are running here then will go for them over plaid.
It's not just members, it's the party's senior people, the people you'd be voting for. Even if three quarters of their stated policies were good (they are, along with the Greens, one of the only parties to take "peak oil" seriously after all) they seem to me to be pretty nasty people. Not the kind of people I would like to have much influence. That's why I could never vote for them.
They are contesting every seat so that shouldnt be a problem
Soldato
I'm not going to bother voting, too much of a plaid cymru presence here.
UKIP is what I'd go for though, although I havent had any campaign spiel from them this year
UKIP is what I'd go for though, although I havent had any campaign spiel from them this year
Associate
No point voting in Wakefield, the seat is far too safe around here.
Soldato
I vote for me 
Hell cant do a worse job than those who have tried and failed. 
Hell cant do a worse job than those who have tried and failed.