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Originally Posted by claytonender
Cashman is quite right that the BNP could easily win a seat (if they put up a candidate) because of the apathy of the people who don't vote. I just wonder how the non voters would feel, if they woke up on the morning of May 4th and found they had a BNP Councillor.
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I wonder why, knowing that voter apathy opens the door to extremists, the mainstream parties do so little to counter voter apathy and disillusionment? Why are they content to sit back and spout the same old garbage year after year after year?
I do not think that it is right to discriminate against anyone purely on the basis of race, sex, class, sexuality or any other distinguishing characteristic. Neither do I think that preferment should be practised on the same grounds either- we are all subjects of the crown and are all equal before the law. It is just that one cannot quite dispell the sneaking feeling that there are certian sections of society that believe themselves to be more equal than others and political parties who are slavishly willing to pander to them for reasons that have more to do with grabbing and maintaining power than serving the interests of democracy and the electorate they purport to represent.
Should this non-voter wake up on May 4th and find himself represented on the council by a member of the BNP I would hazard the guess that I would be neither surprised nor disappointed. It would take a damn sight more than one political extremist to effect change of any sort where HBC is concerned.