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 .

But why am I going too far? The policies are very similar - the Nazis NEVER had the extermination of the Jews as part of their election manifesto!
At the risk of repeating myself (smacking my head against the wall?) this if fact not opinion.

For the record, promoting a party to pupils would be enough to get you dismissed as a teacher. Not only is it illegal, it is unethical.

lol londonone...nothing wrong in being a leftie socialist,...not that there are any left in the labour party, but i'll keep the red flag flying no worries.....would have thought you'd be a labour supporter...being a teacher..?

Dollius - there you go with the hysteria. Demonise them and you will only make them more attractive to some people. Demolish their ideas and policies systematically and we might get somewhere.

Politics are a matter of opinion and if you want teachers to promote certain political views you aqre on a very sticky wicket. Who is going to decide which views are acceptable? Individual teachers, teaching unions, the government? Do you see the problem?

to the OP - if you are inclined towards the BNP and actually managed to write an X symbol on the voting sheet then that's pretty good going in my book. Usually BNP types aren't quite up to the whole reading and writing thing....

"Demolish their ideas and policies systematically and we might get somewhere."

Precisely.

That is what I took Clemette to mean she was doing in the classroom.

I honestly do not think there is anything hysterical about this at all.

clemette - Providing you stick to facts that is fine but your posts certainly indicated that you go further in your own words you "go into the classroom and break the law!" You say that promoting a party is unethical and that is exactly my point!

daftpunk - we'll have to disagree on that one!

dp, I would've voted for them, if it wasn't for Arthur Scargill. I cannot stand that man!

dollius - it was this sort of thing in your post "They are a group of thuggish morons" that I was referring to in terms of hysteria. Name calling is a waste of time.

I'm not suggesting she use that precise phrase in her classroom!

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I'm starting to think that the sole purpose of starting this thread was to get us to read any "positives" they think they have.

lol - when I was talking about hysteria I was talking about the threads on MN rather than clemette in her classroom. I don't think that she's being hysterical!

FWIW i am not a teacher, have a very limited knowledge of politics both historiacl and present.However, i find clements interesting, well written and very sensible. I do not feel i am being given her opinions but the facts.

daftpunk, you might be surprised how few of us socialist lefties there are in the staffrooms of this country. The majority of staff in all the schools I have worked in are generally right of centre...

no worries londonone, wont be the first time i've had someone disagree with me on here....and sure wont be the last.

oh btw...i wouldn't get too confident..all you torie supporters coming out of the woodwork....you'll get hammered...again.

Thanks barnsleybelle

I will give you two names to help explain why I will never be a socialist leftie! Arthur Scargill and Bob Crow, they are truly appalling people.

daftpunk - I presume you don't mean today!England is firmly tory, when they finally sort out the West Lothian question England will get the government it votes for.

Yet George Bush doesn't put you off being more conservative...

AnonymousAnnie, this thread had better be a wind-up. If you are serious about having voted BNP you're clearly as thick as the Party themselves. And that's not an insult, just the facts.

Donnie - I should think that if the OP did vote BNP, drawing an 'X' would have been beyond her capabilities. She probably just used a thumbprint, in which case it would be disqualified!

if the OP truely believes in the polocies of the bnp, why hasnt she been back to defend them

my guess is she has no clue in who she just voted for.

Well educated? please tell us where this place is where you were educated? school? college? uni? the inside of a wheelie bin?

Stupid, stupid woman

no i don't mean today....labour have taken a hammering...that was expected...but they will recover and unless half the country suffer from amnesia at the same time... labour will stay in.......do you remember what the conservatives did..?

Yes I believe they got us out of the dreadful mire that labour left us in at the end of the 70s. Also as a teacher I believe new labour have done a pretty good job of destroying state education (not sure the tories would be any better though re education) hence I could never vote labour.

daftpunk, I've a feeling that the Tories will win. Because the public do have short memories. All they can see right now are the shortfalls of this, the Labour government. They don't want to vote Brown and his goons in again, everyone knows the Lib Dems would shit their pants if they got in - where does that leave you?

I'd love the Socialists to stand half a chance, but they've got to get rid of Scargill first.

I'm not voting Labour again, I can't stand half the cabinet. There's no way on this earth I'm voting Tory - public spending would be reduced, morale amongst workers would be at an all time low, whilst the rich sit back happy, knowing they won't get taxed. I'd have to vote for the Shitty Pants Party.

And as a teacher I think schools have geuninely never had it so good. Perhaps it is a provincial thing...?