European Elections 2009

[Abigail]

Don't forget to register to vote (http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/default.aspx) in the EU elections on 5th June. You need to register by 19th May, next Monday. All you need is your name and address.


There's a bit here (http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/what_can_i_vote_for.aspx) on what the elections are about and what the vote is for.


Use your vote and have a say in who runs your local, national and European parliaments. :)

[StarsOfCCTV]

http://www.votematch.co.uk/

This website is quite good at giving you an idea of who you should vote for in the elections based on your views if you are like me and have no idea what the policies for the different parties are! :p

Apparently my top three are:
Green Party
Lib Dems
Conservatives

[Abigail]

The BNP need a 2% swing (http://www.officeronline.co.uk/society/articles/276073.aspx) in the west midlands and again in the north west to secure a seat in the EU parliament. Once they have a seat, they have huge financial backing and support in Europe. They are a real threat.

Use your vote wisely :cool: It's important that everybody of voting age turns out.


I just took the test and it matched with the party I was already going to vote for.

[StarsOfCCTV]

I hope they don't get their foot in the door!

This is the time when they will have an advantage. When things are going bad people look to right wing parties as they promise they will solve all their problems.

[Abigail]

The BNP are targeting those on low incomes who have been hit hard by the 10p tax. Promising to make their lives easier by giving them everything they need. In reality, they're just gathering votes. They don't really care about those poor, working class folk on council estates (I apologise for stereotyping).

You need to know what you're enemies are up to so I went on the BNP website. There's an article (http://bnp.org.uk/2009/05/the-islamification-of-britain-continues-bbc-appoints-muslim-as-head-of-religious-programming/) on a muslim becoming head of public broadcasting for religious services with the BBC. Note the last two paragraphs:

The British National Party is the only political party to voice its objection to this bloodless genocide and ethnic cleansing of the British people in their own country.

A vote for the BNP on June 4th will send a clear message to the ruling elite that the British people do not want to subjected to foreign rule and Islamified. The public cannot say that they have not been warned.


And they continue to deny they're a nazi, racist, fascist party? :rolleyes:

[Abigail]

All the major parties and some smaller parties policies.

Labour Party (http://www.labour.org.uk/labour_policies)

Conservatives (http://www.conservatives.com/Policy.aspx)

Liberal Democrats (http://www.libdems.org.uk/)

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) (http://www.ukip.org/content/ukip-policies/726-ukip-policies-in-brief-2009)

British Nationalist Party (BNP) (http://bnp.org.uk/policies/)

The Green Party (http://www.greenparty.org.uk/policies.html)

Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (http://www.swp.org.uk/)

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party (http://www.omrlp.com/index.php?page=and-there-s-more)

[Meh]

The monster raving loony party gets my vote.

[DaVeyWaVey]

I did that votematch test and it said my best match is Labour, followed by Liberal Democrats.

I was considering voting for Liberal Democrats. All I know for certain is that the BNP won't be getting my vote :)

[parkerman]

Another little gem from the BNP:

On the morning of 25 February the Conservative Party announced the tragic news that Ivan Cameron, the six-year-old son of Conservative Party leader David Cameron and his wife Samantha, who suffered from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, had died. In a rare show of unity figures from across the political spectrum united to send their condolences and best wishes to the heartbroken family.

Not so the British National Party.

In a cruel and warped outburst against those who had expressed their condolences at the death of Ivan Cameron, Jeff Marshall, the central London BNP organiser, who lives in Whitechapel, wrote: “We live in a country today which is unhealthily dominated by an excess of sentimentality towards the weak and unproductive. No good will come of it.”

Not content with attacking those mourning the death of a severely disabled child who brought “joy and love to those around him”, Marshall continued in his sick tirade, stating that although it would be “a kindness” to kill children with disabilities, this was not the same as advocating such a measure as compulsory state policy. “But so what if it is,” he asked. “At least we would all know where we stand. There is actually not a great deal of point in keeping these sort of people alive, after all.”

Marshall’s disturbing and repellent views recall those of Tony Lecomber, who was, until 2008, one of Griffin’s right-hand men. Lecomber proposed a racist eugenics programme, echoing that of the Nazi murderer Dr Josef Mengele, which advocated a “racially purer” Britain through the sterilisation of the poor, the sick and the disabled. Lecomber believed, and presumably still does, that the rich are “genetically superior” to ordinary people and that poor people should not be allowed to have their own children.

Marshall was on the BNP’s London Assembly list in May 2008

[DaVeyWaVey]

My god. Reading that makes me sick.

[Perdita]

:eek: Makes me sick, I hope enough people vote to prevent this political party gaining any power :thumbsdow

[StarsOfCCTV]

One of the only reasons I'm voting is to try and block the BNP from gaining a seat. Although of course I am looking at which parties represent my views. Apparently I'm already registered to vote which is good.

[Abigail]

There's an article on a muslim becoming head of public broadcasting for religious services with the BBC. Note the last two paragraphs:

The British National Party is the only political party to voice its objection to this bloodless genocide and ethnic cleansing of the British people in their own country.

A vote for the BNP on June 4th will send a clear message to the ruling elite that the British people do not want to subjected to foreign rule and Islamified. The public cannot say that they have not been warned.


Just read this:

The BBC has received 115 complaints after appointing Channel 4 executive Aaqil Ahmed as its new head of religion and ethics.

Reports indicate that the majority of complaints are because Ahmed is not a Christian.

"We have received complaints from our audience regarding our decision to appoint a non-Christian as the new head of religion and ethics," the BBC confirmed. "The BBC's commitment to religious broadcasting and to Christian broadcasting as the dominant part of that, is entirely secure. Aaqil Ahmed was appointed as he was the best candidate for this new role. It is BBC policy to recruit on the basis of experience and suitability to the post, not on the basis of faith or any other criteria."

The corporation pointed to Ahmed's ten year record in religious broadcasting, first as deputy editor for documentaries at the BBC's religion department and then as Channel 4's head of religion, and said that "Christians are and will remain the key audience for the BBC's religious television output".



Call me cynical but I have no hesitation in thinking who those 115 people are.

[Perdita]

If you are called a cynical, then I need to be called a cynical too because I think the same as you, I am sure

[Chloe O'brien]

That will be three of us who think the same then.

[Abbie]

Apparently Im voting on the 4th, although my birthday my 18th isnt till the 15th
I guess they have just said anyone within the month of June??

[Abigail]

If you got a voting card then you will be able to vote.

[Abbie]

yep I got one
Its stuck on the fridge :D

[Abigail]

If you're a student, you can register your term address and home address and vote at either one.

[Abbie]

No well I just got sent this card

[di marco]

If you're a student, you can register your term address and home address and vote at either one.

thats what ive done. although im going to be at home that day anyway

[StarsOfCCTV]

I was sent the voting paper today. All signed and sealed just got to send it back off now.

[Abbie]

I have to go to the primary shcool to vote on the day

[di marco]

i dunno if ive got my one through at home yet, i presume i have, i only have to go a few houses down the road. at uni its at some church, i know where the road is but never knew there was a church there!

[Abigail]

Tomorrow is the big day!!


Make sure you all vote if you're of voting age :D

Use your vote. Don't let the BNP get a seat in the EU.

7am - 10pm at your local polling station

[Katy]

I'm going down later, anyone except the BNP, we cant let them in as the Manchester Evening News Said last night they are not for Labour and Conservatives out but Amir Khan and Shaun wright Phillips and they have a point there only policies are racist. Im not sure where i am going yet though, i think its the senior citizens hall.

[StarsOfCCTV]

Someone said if they were old enough to vote they were going to vote for BNP just to make a difference. :nono: I think me and another person have now put him off!

Nick Griffin denying the holoucaust: :angry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8QQwU00Jk&feature=related

[di marco]

apparently we arent having a local election where i live cos even though i live in kent apparently my area has its own separate council or something compared to the rest of the county! :confused: think my parents are going this evening when my dad gets home from work as its just down the road from us, ill probably go with them



Use your vote. Don't let the BNP get a seat in the EU.

ok, i really dont like the bnp and agree that no one should vote for them. however, we got one of their leaflets through the door and so i read it, and i can see why some people who might not really know what the party is like would vote for them cos the way they word their leaflets is quite clever, if you didnt know they were a bunch of racists, imo i dont think youd get it from reading what they have to say. which is why i think some people might vote for them, without truly knowing what theyre like

[DaVeyWaVey]

I got handed an Anti BNP leaflet when I was out in Cardiff the other day, which had some quotes from the party. It was shocking! :eek:

Anyway, I used my vote today :)

[Chloe O'brien]

I voted at teatime. I hope everyone used their votes wisely and let current situation going on in the government cloud their judgement.

[Abigail]

That's a contradiction of what you previously wrote about always voting Labour

[Perdita]

??? Which post are you on about, can't make the connection :confused:

[Abigail]

This one from the other election thread. Maybe Kath missed a word out in her post.



Gordon Bown is not to blame for the MP's making all these illegal claims the adminsitration was done before he became PM so why should he have to suffer for someone elses mistakes. If you want to blame anyone blame Maggie Thatcher she was the one who implememted the expsenses claim to begin with when the Tories were in power.

My parents were strong labour voters and so am I for a personal point of view I would not be financially secure as I was without Mr Brown and I will have no problem in voting Mr Brown again if there was a General Election. I know he isn't the most charasmatic man but he is a very wise man and he deserves a chance. Yes the MP's are corrupt and shouldn't be allowed to stand down at the next election party leaders should sack them and they should leave without their penison or any other perks. It's not only Laour MP's that are gulity the Tories have just as much but you don't see David Cameron getting a hard time.

[Chloe O'brien]

That's a contradiction of what you previously wrote about always voting Labour


Not at all, well it wasn't meant to be :) I did vote Labour there was never any question that I would vote another party. The point I was trying to put over was that due to what is happening in the government voters could be angry and rightly so and maybe make a rash decision and vote for another party that they may not have voted for if there hadn't been the issues going on over the last few weeks. does that make sense.

[Abigail]

Completely :) I think a lot of people have followed your logic. As long as they didn't vote BNP, I'm not bothered who people vote for.


*shudders at the thought of tories in power*

[Chloe O'brien]

I would hate the tories to get into power I grew up with the Thatcter the milk snatcher government and she did nothing for the working class, but if the voters want to vote Tory or Lib Dem or even the Independant party. I hope the country are voting for them because they were intending to.