to have voted for the BNP today

[AnonymousAnnie]

and feel that I should keep it a secret (have name changed obviously) for fear of being lynched!!

It is a perfectly legal party that has been totally demonised in the media. I was even worried that I may be able to be traced from my ballot paper but I took the risk and voted for them because all the other parties are the bloody same and none of them have the guts to sort this country out. Suppose I'll never get to heaven now .

As the daughter of immigrants, in a perverse way I would like to see the BNP take over running the country.

The NHS would collapse, BNP supporters would not be able to get their Indian, Chinese or kebabs because they would have repatriated all the foreigners who have stolen their jobs.

Foreign investment would cease to flow into the UK and the economy would revert to a subsistence one. Imagine Oil rich Middle Eastern investors choosing to invest their money in the UK?

The BNP government would have to find jobs and homes for the British who would have to leave their foreign jobs and retirement homes in foreign climes such as Abu Dhabi, China, Japan, African continent, Spain, France etc.

Yeah, voting for the BNP will definitely save British jobs.

Has Anonymous Annie been back? Last night I was reading this thread and feeling and but also thinking she, mole or not, represents only a tiny minority and that the BNP's notoriety has magnified their significance drastically. I woke up to the results of our town's mayoral elections. Thank goodness, the BNP didn't win and our old independent candidate was elected BUT the BNP came second. I know people vote differently in local elections than in general elections but this still leaves me feeling pretty sick not to mention furious. I think someone on the other thread hit the nail on the head when she said of the BNP councillors elected in their area 'they pledged to bring back weekly litter collections'. Am ashamed that so many people in my town (well over a thousand voted BNP) are either full on, out of the closet racists or so wrapped up in their own petty selfish ignorant existences that they can't see the bigger picture

i've known people who have voted BNP...they thought that putting an X on a piece of paper meant they were now part of a master race...the fact that they couldn't string a coherent sentence together didn't seem to bother them...

LOL Spokette and Daftpunk. Spokette you should send your vision of BNP Britain to one of the anti-BNP groups so they can make it into a video. Or make a film. One thing that is heartening is that clearly the majority of MNetters see the BNP for what they are and surely we must represent a fairly significant group. I'm still feeling pretty anxious about the MEP results though

kimi I think a lot of people are fed up with things in this country and voting BNP is an out let for that.
TBH I would rather someone vote for the wrong party then no party at all, epically women,

Would you rather a woman vote for a party who suggest that "raping is no worse than force-feeding a woman chocolate cake", than not vote at all.

What a silly thing to say.

What if say, Dubai decided that they will send back all the white British workers, how would the BNP react to their precious master race been treated in that way? And when you start sending people back, how far do you go back? And what about mixed people? Do they go for some kind of timeshare arrangement?

So what would the BNP do with mixed race children then?

Sadly I think that there's a fair chance of at least 1 BNP candidate "representing" me in Europe. Absolutely hate the thought but we live in a democracy and PR will mean minority parties getting some seats.

Still flabbergasted that anyone votes for them and would be interested in motivations. Can they really be as petty as reinstating weekly litter collections? (BTW very ungreen and would mean a rise in your council tax too). As for the idea that they are the only ones who can sort the country out .

Also I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks force feeding chocolate cake is still an assault (although clearly not as violent or horrible as rape) and generally not a good thing to do to someone...

I knew the BNP was not good, but didn't really know why. Then i read an artical in the Daily Mirror this week about a grandmother who was so shocked that her grandaughter said she was voting for the BNP that she showed footage of people being sent to the gas chambers during war on YouTube.

Her grandaughter was so shocked and realised how ignorant she had been. She won't be voting BNP anymore.

BakewellTarts - seriously, one of the MAIN issue the BNP candidate campaigned on in our area was reinstating weekly litter collections! Some people are unable to see the bigger picture, be it the planet, or other people's lives and focus on their own connvenience. I'm not sure if this actually makes them worse than the full on racists and it certainly makes them very similar to those people across Europe who voted for Fascists in the 1920s and 1930s. She also says she would save local post offices (not sure how) and - get this - improve disability access!!!!!!!! I am considering drafting an open letter to her and sending it to the local newspaper quoting all of the anti-disabled and anti-women things said by leading BNP members....

There was a very interesting series on a while back which took DNA from people to find out what their race origins actually were.
It was fascinating because all people were al real mixed bag, as you would expect of course.

I remember one women who considered herself British through and through ( whatever that means) more British than a cuppa, roots going back x generations, etc etc was absolutely outraged when her test results came back that she had I think Middle Eastern blood in her and was not all that "British" at all. She was ranting on about suing the BBC ( On what grounds I'm not sure).

There was one guy who was a member of the BNP or some such shite party and he turned out to have very exotic roots. He was shocked and then ashamed of his belief system and became a much nicer, more open minded person.

I'd love for all the BNP party members to have their DNA tested in this way.

convenience

AnonymousAnnie - I am genuinely interested by what you mean when you say that none of the other parties 'have the guts to sort the country out'.

Honestly, I'm not insulting you or trying to be rude, but what do you mean by this? What do you think the BNP would do for the country that would 'sort it out'?

It would be interesting to try and understand why someone would make this choice. What attracts you to their policies?

Yes - totally disgusted any mother would vote this way, or any human for that matter. Bet you know nothing about their policies.

no i wouldn't think you were unreasonable OP, i'd just assume you were, well, a bit thick really.

"It is a perfectly legal party that has been totally demonised (?)in the media. I was even worried that I may be able to be traced from my ballot paper but I took the risk and voted for them..."

am amused at the level of paranoia
you were really very brave being a victim and all...

clemette - I am appalled by your attitude. Your behaviour is exactly the reason why it is dangerous to have party politics covered in citizenship lessons. As a teacher I see it as essential that I keep my religious and political views outside the classroom.

clemette, please dont call them the British Nazi Party, for so many reasons.

Laws are there for a purpose. Democracy is more important than a single, not very successful party. The war is history. The Nazis were electorally successful in the 1930s - is that how you want your pupils to see the BNP?
The BNP are a bunch of sad losers, as well as having unpleasant opinions - don't link them to the most successful (albeit until everyone else shut them up) fascist movement of the 20th century. You are playing into their hands, are letting your children down by not equipping them with the education they need to make up their own minds!

No, londonone, I don't agree. The BNP's behaviour is the reason why it would be dangerous not to.

I remember my Social Studies teacher at school would be seen selling the socialist worker outside the local shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon, and lots of Tory parents (my own included) wrote to the head and tried to get him booted out. It made the press (you can imagine "leftie-commie teaching politics" yahyah....) I wrote to the paper pointing out, then, as I do now, that we need to give our teenagers a bit more credit for making their own mind up about these things.

Bucharest I would agree with you but there is good evidenc eon this thread that there are teachers who don't let people make up their own minds instead they choose to foist their views upon their pupils. If teachers were all able to keep their personal views out of it then fine, but obviously some can't.

To put another spin on it how would you feel if your child's teacher was Pro BNP and in fact portrayed the BNP as a right leaning but good political party?

Op, you can do what you want. Why do you feel you should keep it a sectet but still brag about it?

Either you vote for something you believe in and are proud of it , no matter how many people are against you or you do not like what they propose and do not vote for them! Only a coward would do what you have done and then namechange.

Do not expect a round of applause!

If the BNP repatriated all the foreign footballers, British football would disappear from European championships and as for the European and World Cup, hee, hee, hee.

I would like to see them try to repatriate the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Linford Christie, Leona Lewis, Christina Ohuruguru, Lenny Henry, Moira Stuart, Sir Trevor McDonald, Syrah Myeel (sp) and their families?

Would they carry on the excellent work of Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh after they have repatriated her to Iran or Belgiim?

Where are they going to get the tax revenue to pay the benefits that have been stolen from their supporters because it was given to all the foreigners?

Will they get their supporters to do the cleaning and care work that is largely done by African, Caribbean and Eastern European workers?

People who vote BNP are so monumentally ignorant they would not be able to project manage putting a hole in a paper bag.