This post again is a bit late. Thankfully I have more to occupy my time than worrying about the mess this Government is in.
As I have stated before I have come to the realisation that voting does not achieve real political change in the sense that the system is so corrupt what use would it be to change the individuals in control? This caused a dilemma for me as on the one hand I wanted to send out a message to the man and let him know, whoever he is, that i am bloody angry! So, for a while I convinced myself that using a tactical vote for UKIP would make the mainstream political parties sit up and take notice (yeah right!). This same dilemma I would imagine manifested in the minds of otherwise sane people, who voted for the BNP. Being someone who would not be welcome at a BNP meeting, I could not possibly vote for them, masochism does not appeal to me. Lately I have been telling people that voting for the BNP when you otherwise would have voted for the main political parties is kind of like having an itch on your finger, but then thinking what the hell I am going to cut the whole arm off. I honestly believe that the majority of people who voted BNP are not racist bigots they are just disillusioned. These are people that let fear and uncertainty cloud the better part of their judgement and Nick Griffin and Co were more than willing to provide the smoke and mirrors.
On the BBC site there is an interesting article with lots of peoples comments on why they voted BNP and they seem to be citing the same things over again, e.g. mass immigration of criminals; welfare scroungers; wasting money abroad (wars) and pushing of minority rights etc. What these people don't realise is that all of these things are problems caused by the system. We have entered into immigration agreements within the EU. The EU dictates to us who and how many migrants we have to accept into the country. Welfare on the other hand is a self-inflicted wound. The problem with welfare is the concept of 'welfare'. Once it is removed the incentive to come here and scrounge disappears. I don't want to fund the indigenous scroungers let alone imported ones. Minority rights are a contentious issue. I disagree with the concept that minority groups should have special rights, as I believe only individuals can have rights and not groups. I don't see a problem with everyone having the same rights, and I can see how people would get angry if they thought one group was being favoured over another. However, as I have outlined this is a problem created by the system not by the minority groups. I wonder whether the BNP if they were to get control over the country would bring everyone's rights to parity, i.e. level the playing field, or would they also favour one group over another. Let me be honest I don't care about ethnicity or nationality. I want the best doctors, plumbers, builders etc not someone who is british for the sake of it. Let us also not sugar cote anything, when Nick Griffin says British he means white, even if he tells the public otherwise.
I began by saying I was going to vote UKIP but as you can probably guess I didn't go through with it. I couldn't bring myself to vote for anyone. after all nobody represents me on every issue except me!. This is the problem with democracy, and the concept of 'popular government'. Can we honestly say that the BNP are representational of the Black, Asian communities where the BNP were elected? The ridiculous thing was that 62% of the population didn't vote. Can we still say majority rules?
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