OK, given that the election is just around the corner, how will you be voting? For the purposes of this exercise, everyone gets a vote. Sam
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OK, own up, who voted Looney?!! I am actually dissapointed with their manifesto this time. The 2001 one was hillarious, but this time it's not so funny. I think my sig gives my vote away though!
Can you not remove the fascists as a choice? Would love to think that no one in tmp land will be voting nazi in may.
So Jamie Oliver does a TV programme on the appalling state of school dinners but gets very little help from the politicians etc. A few days before the election announcement the Schools' Minister announces that schools are to get an extra £280 million for better food (think that's about 50p a meal instead of 37p). Now call me an old cynic but are these two items related? The minister claims that she was planning this since she was appointed (3 months ago) but presumably the TV programme was started and finished well before she was appointed - how come the previous minister (Mr Clarke) didn't jump on the Jamie bandwagon when he was approached? Well that's the old dears (reduced council tax) and the parents sorted out what do you think the brass banders will be getting from a "new" government?
I don't see any parties that have facist or nazi views on there. Of course you maybe refering to the BNP, but I assure you that their 'policies' are far to infantile and reactionary to even be classed as facist or nazi.
In the words of Dick and Dom, Ah diddly, ah diddly, ah diddly squit. But I'm used to getting a rum deal from this government as I'm a student.
It's the democratic right in this country to be able to vote for who you wish (as long as they're not legally restricted from competing in the election) so whether you or I like it or not, the more extreme parties (until outlawed) must be included in the poll above to determine the true reflection of voting trends.
As usual, Liberal. I am a wet Liberal and proud of it. I've always voted Liberal and I'm not going to change now.Maybe it's a wasted vote, but it's my democratic right, my foremothers fought for the right and I choose to exercise it. BMB xx P.S. Was sorely tempted to vote BNP on here just to put the panther amongst the dodos, but that would have been a lie.
A vote is only a wasted one when it's not cast at all. People have no right to complain if they don't excercise their right to vote.
Well, no, nazism and facism are particular politcal philosophies, the BNP doesn't appear to align itself to either of them, probably because the party leadership doesn't really know what they are. It is easy to confuse nazism and facism with nationalism, as the terms are, rather misleadingly, interchanged quite often, they are not the same thing. EDIT: Or should I say that nazism and facism are flavours of nationalism (well nazism is a flavour of socialism actually) and that there are many other types of nationalism outside their definition.
just because you (or even most of society) disagrees with a particular point of view that is no reason to stop that view being expressed. If the fascists (i assume you mean BNP) as you call them are banned from all discussion they can then claim to be martyrs. Surely it is better to let them express their view openly and allow open debate to persuade people where their vote should go. If you start banning points of view you are on a slippery slope to a one-party state, is that really what you want to see?
