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Fuckity fuck ...

Dear BNP,
Fuck off.

Dear Labour Voters who voted for the BNP,
It may shock you to realise this, but David Cameron is a decent person and while I may personally disagree with many of his party's policies, they will not destroy the country. Giving power to a bunch of racist thugs will. If you must protest, and I accept there is a lot to protest, vote for the Conservatives. That you should vote for those execrable scum in the BNP at the same time as celebrating the 65th anniversary of one of the greatest stands against fascist bigotry the world has seen should fill you with shame.

B

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Hear hear! The thought of Nick Griffin representing my country makes me feel physically ill. Alternately, the Greens make a nice happy protest vote.

I can't help thinking that maybe these protest voters had more in common with the BNP than the conservatives. :| I mean, they had to have chosen to vote for the BNP for some reason...

I 'did' the count in our county on Friday for the local seats, and one borough in our county had four (count 'em) second and third place placings for BNP district councillors. We were actually resigned to getting at least 2, so the fact that the seats went Tory instead has been counted as a blessing, and I never thought I'd hear myself say that.

Grr, yes. This was the first time I was able to vote (being proxy for my father when I was 8 doesn't really count), and I voted Lib Dem, due to one of the candidates being my father, and the other being a man I have met more than once, once at school and once at a Lib Dem wine and pizza evening when I was 14 or so.

I hateses the BNP. Hateses them.

The problem is that the BNP are positioning themselves as the natural home for 'Old' Labour supporters. We always used to joke that in County Durham, where I live, Labour could run with a monkey as a candidate and still win. (Oh look, Hartlepool re-elected theirs as mayor...) It saddens me that people would rather vote for these bigots than for any of the other parties or even for an independent candidate.

I just can't get my head around the fact that there are (against all evidence) intelligent, knowledgeable people out there that actually chose to vote for them against, oh, ANY OTHER OPTION AT ALL EVER. And that so many people didn't vote at all, even if just to keep the BNP out, is nauseating.

I know! When I woke up and found out this morning I was like :O :O :O

How did that happen???

If you don't like labour, vote conservative, lib dem, green party! Resort to BNP only when there are NO MORE parties in the world, people! Argh.
Plus, I think it was yorkshire and the northwest who voted BNP, right? I live in the northwest and I go to uni in yorkshire. Oh, the shame :(

sheesh, and i thought american politics and voters were frustrating. ;)

Oh Brambram, why are people so STUPID? Everything would be so much easier if the would just be smart instead!

The really scary thing is that I think a lot of these people genuinely believe in what the BNP are saying. They actually think that if only we got rid of all the immigrants that the recession would just disappear.

I know a few people who voted for them -- and they are the kind of people you wouldn't necessarily imagine to be supporters. Believe it or not, I work with an asian guy who voted for them - go figure.

Thank God we have the 'first past the post' voting system here, otherwise we could be looking at the first BNP MP.

*blinks*

I rather thought that any party whose campaign flyer begins with "We're not racist" had pretty much said everything about themselves that needed to be said.

Lib Dems are a good bet for protest votes - ineffectual, but harmless.

I'm rather dumbfounded by the countries with more than two actual viable options...

Also, however contradictory it may be, I am simultaneously committed to democracy and feel that some people are too stupid to be allowed to vote. Sigh.

I can't get over the number of people who actually voted for the BNP. Almost a million. :( What the fuck are these people thinking? (Possibly a protest vote, as you say in this post, but jesus, anyone but the BNP as a protest vote.)

Hear, hear! Racist, fascist scum bags the lot of them.

And where the hell where the LDP! I feel like I wasted my vote.

*ignorant and American, the subject toddles over to Wikipedia*

According to its constitution, the BNP is "committed to stemming and reversing the tide of non-white immigration and to restoring, by legal changes, negotiation and consent the overwhelmingly white makeup of the British population that existed in Britain prior to 1948." The BNP also proposes "firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home."

...so there are Labour voters who signed on with this? Good Lord. I thought Labour was all Gordon Brown and dancing on Maggie "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY!" Thatcher's grave and Cherie Blair and Hugh Grant's character in Love Actually.

I think David Duke might still have some lovely white cloaks hanging around for these folks...

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