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So we can all see the reason the BNP could have support.So as they see it ,it's worth a try.I just hope some of the trouble seen in Burnley and Oldham doesn't hitch a ride into town.

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well i wont be voting for anyone in may, all are useless!!

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My thoughts exactly.

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would agree panther, the problem being though if many think the same it opens the door for the BNP, if they put a candidate forward.;)

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I used to think like then. Then I decided if I did not vote for someone then I did not have the right to moan about them :D

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Ah, so that's why you voted the way you did - so you can complain now - I didn't realise you had a long term strategy.:D

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Gayle is quite right about the number of people who say that they will vote BNP. Last year I canvassed in most wards of Hyndburn and there are people in every ward who say they would vote BNP.
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 honestly think the the BNP has come to the fore again in recent times, due to apathy, political correctness, etc, and this is more dangerous than ANY party,any voter does not like.:(

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The reason these fringe parties gain power, is the apathy of the voters, voting in my opinion should be like the census compulsory, as I think it is in Austrailia. If everyone exercised the right to vote, just maybe we would get the party in power we all crave for, and the ballanced policies that go with them.

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I find it hard to differentiate between the major parties.Before government they all tell us things they think will get them elected.
Then once in power..'ecconomic pressures'force them to abandon thier promises,or so they say.
But I agree apathy leaves the door open for fringe parties to gain control.

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unfortunatly claytonender i fear many of them would not give a monkeys.;)

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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.

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Thats it. I am too much of a gentleman to complain about a lady.

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I'm in agreement with A-b, main stream political parties should be looking at why there seems to be such a ground swell support for parties like the B.N.P.

People are tired, and to some extent frightened, at the way this and other governments have tackled issues such as immigration, and integration of the peoples who came into to this country in recent years.

Less time, pandering and patronising people, and more insistance on integration, would mean there would be less support for the more extremist political parties.

As much as I disagree with groups like the B.N.P., in a democracy they should be allowed a voice. However, I'll be using my democratic voice, and vote, not to give them my X, come election day.

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One big problem with modern parties at they are blinkered and focus on the target section of the voters they deem they need. Until they come to thir senses (fat chance) the more extreme politics will hover in the background ready to pounce.