JonPlatt wrote:
If I could vote (and I can't, because I'm underage), I would probably vote for the Conservatives, because they have promised to re-criminalize Sharia law, and they generally seem to have much more a spine than the Labour Party.
Actually, I've changed my mind. Generally, I don't claim to actively support any party, but I really like our local Lib Dem MP, I don't like the Tories' plans to cut public spending on
everything, from the way Mr Cameron talks he seems to be saying whatever people want to hear and doesn't really seem to care about anything else, the Labour Party are far too politically correct, and generally the Lib Dems aren't
as bad as the other two main parties. So I'd vote for them. But even though I don't really like the Conservatives, what Labour have done to our country in the past several years makes me definitely prefer both the Tories and the Liberals over them.
Asp-Z wrote:
The UKIP and BNP are different - Griffin in a holocaust denying Nazi who's party wants to kick anyone not white out of the country. The UKIP, from what I know at least, isn't anywhere near as extreme, and says being British is about belief in fairness etc, not ethnicity.
Definitely true.
0_equals_true wrote:
In practice UKIP are xenophobes, and share things in common with the BNP.
I think that's unreasonable and I definitely agree with Asp-Z on this. I don't agree with UKIP's main policy of getting Britain out of the European Union, but I really like how, from what I know, they're actually patriotic, and they think that being British is about belief in democracy and fairness, which, to a certain extent, is true. But I doubt they think that all foriegners are the same, and certainly they don't agree with the BNP's racist white nationalism. There needs to be a bigger sense of national pride in Britain, and it has to be about our values rather than about our ethnicity. And UKIP advocates the former, wheras the BNP advocates the latter.
22 Feb 2010, 7:52 pm
