A LOCAL BLOG SUPPORTING THE BRITISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE INDIGENOUS BRITISH PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE OF WIGAN AND LEIGH IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM, THE TRAITORS IN PARLIAMENT AND FOR OUR BIRTHRIGHT. - "NO FOREIGN PRINCE, PERSON, PRELATE, STATE OR POTENTATE HATH, OR OUGHT TO HAVE, ANY JURISDICTION, POWER, SUPERIORITY, PRE-EMINENCE, OR AUTHORITY, ECCLESIASTICAL OR SPIRITUAL, WITHIN THIS REALM" (ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS 1689)

Thursday, 12 May 2011
MUHAMMAD ALI SUPPORTS RACIAL PROTECTION OF OUR OWN KIND
Even those who have suffered RACISM because of the colour of their skin prefer their own kind and would rather keep their RACIAL IDENTITY rather than lose it through Miscegenation.
Ali says what we think yet no one dare call him a racist.
Hat tip - Nationalism Today
http://www.nationalismtoday.com/?p=837
THIS'LL DO YOUR HEADS IN.
The darkie who offended the whole country by burning the poppy on Remembrance day: fined £50.
The whitey who tried to stop him: fined £315.
The whitey who burned a koran -: 70 days in jail.
I'm sure there must be something wrong with that picture.
http://www.4liberty.org.uk/2011/05/12/compare-and-contrast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=compare-and-contrast
Morg
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The whitey who tried to stop him: fined £315.
The whitey who burned a koran -: 70 days in jail.
I'm sure there must be something wrong with that picture.
http://www.4liberty.org.uk/2011/05/12/compare-and-contrast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=compare-and-contrast
Morg
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011
MARC DOUTROUX
Go on, admit it - you'd forgotten about him hadn't you. So why wasn't his gene line immediately terminated? Who would have noticed the difference, apart from him that is? And who cares about his opinion?
(CBS/AP) BRUSSELS - The former wife and convicted accomplice of a Belgian pedophile murderer is expected to be released from prison early, since the prosecutor's office did not lodge an appeal against the move.
Michel Martin was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for her role in the death of two 8-year-old girls held by her then-husband Marc Dutroux in the mid-1990s.
Under Belgian law, Martin could be released within weeks after serving 15 years of her sentence, and as a condition of parole, will move to a convent in France, said the prosecutor general of the southern city of Mons, Brussels.
The parents of the victims protested the plans that Martin could be freed early.
Dutroux, meanwhile, is serving a life term for abducting, imprisoning and raping six girls. He was found guilty of murdering two girls and allowing two others in his custody to starve to death.
Hell ... we could even make it SOUND a bit PCish - "Sentenced to termination of gene line"... bit like they don't use the word 'abortion' these days, preferring 'termination'. So if it's ok to 'terminate' an unborn baby, it should be ok for a nonce and kiddie-murderer too.
I do concede that 'execute' is a very ugly word ... maybe that's all we need for it to satisfy PC rules: a new word for it. PC is mostly about words. Seems the PTB (Powers That Be) already like 'terminate' better than 'abortion' - so give it a go; maybe the PTB find it a prettier word than 'execute', and we can all get back to doing what sometimes just has to be done?
'Termination of gene line' needn't even refer to a human. It does sound better than ' Take him around the back and kill him'.
Morg
(CBS/AP) BRUSSELS - The former wife and convicted accomplice of a Belgian pedophile murderer is expected to be released from prison early, since the prosecutor's office did not lodge an appeal against the move.
Michel Martin was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for her role in the death of two 8-year-old girls held by her then-husband Marc Dutroux in the mid-1990s.
Under Belgian law, Martin could be released within weeks after serving 15 years of her sentence, and as a condition of parole, will move to a convent in France, said the prosecutor general of the southern city of Mons, Brussels.
The parents of the victims protested the plans that Martin could be freed early.
Dutroux, meanwhile, is serving a life term for abducting, imprisoning and raping six girls. He was found guilty of murdering two girls and allowing two others in his custody to starve to death.
Hell ... we could even make it SOUND a bit PCish - "Sentenced to termination of gene line"... bit like they don't use the word 'abortion' these days, preferring 'termination'. So if it's ok to 'terminate' an unborn baby, it should be ok for a nonce and kiddie-murderer too.
I do concede that 'execute' is a very ugly word ... maybe that's all we need for it to satisfy PC rules: a new word for it. PC is mostly about words. Seems the PTB (Powers That Be) already like 'terminate' better than 'abortion' - so give it a go; maybe the PTB find it a prettier word than 'execute', and we can all get back to doing what sometimes just has to be done?
'Termination of gene line' needn't even refer to a human. It does sound better than ' Take him around the back and kill him'.
Morg
Monday, 9 May 2011
ANSWERS TO COMMENTS ON MY LAST BLOG
I would like to thank those who commented on my last blog, but feel it better to reply to the many valid points on another blog rather than through the answers faciility.
All the commentators are obviously true nationalists and have the cause at heart but have different opinions as to how our cause can be advanced.
To be honest I am not sure how, but I know there is a great hunger for a party which puts the interests of the British people first unlike the other main parties.
A major problem we have at present is the public's perception of our party and especially Nick Griffin.
As I stated in my previous blog I have every respect for his intellect and work to further our cause but we have to accept the fact that especially after his performance on Question Time and other gaffes he has become toxic to our cause.
I know he was under immense pressure at Question time and did land some punches but as a proffessional he should have anticipated the questions and any competent politician could have got out of them. Even I could have answered them and I am no politician.
There are things you do not say even if you agree with them.
There are things I have not said myself both as a BNP member and a Labour councillor which I knew would be political suicide.
How do I know?
People on the doorstep have told me so.
Whether we agree with them or not these are the people with whom we must connect and motivate to vote for us. However good our leader is if he puts people off voting for us he should be replaced and must be if we are to progress.
Secondly as one commentator said there is no efficient structure to inform members and supporters what is going on (nor indeed openness about financial matters).
This does not help to motivate people to join or contribute.
Thirdly, I know UKIP did badly but they are one trick party and irrelevent to local politics.
We have many economic policies which would help hard pressed citizens and which are relevent to local elections, but they were not pushed.
We should stress the economic arguments which resonate with people and all else will fall into place. Everybody knows our opinions about immigration and Muslim terrorism so why mention them. Concentrate on people's pockets and the taxes they must pay and the benefits they lose.
UKIP is Farage and in spite of his multiple appearances in the media it scores badly at local elections. Who else is in UKIP? Not many know.
That gives the lie that a well known leader with the gift of the gab will sway local voters.
Fourthly, I have been involved in the Party for nearly nine years and have seen its weaknesses in structure, finances and personnel and have pleaded for these to be rectified to no avail.
I have put in money to help our progress but my efforts have been ignored, not out of malice but inefficiency.
We are up against parties, well funded often by foreign interests and the media and thus have to be super efficient and squeaky clean. Thus anyone with any baggage which could hinder our cause has to be sidelined from public view or they will be set upon by the media.
I have not advocated any person as a new leader. I just believe we need a new one backed up by an efficient and lean administration which responds quickly to enquiries, pays its bills and is stable so that people know who to contact.
Last years leadership elections were not by any stretch democratic (although I voted for Nick Griffin), but now I think we need an open and fair contest this time to elect a new leader with campaigning by the candidates across the country as Nick Griffin has an inbuilt advantage, being well known.
I accept this year's local elections may not be a true reflection of our appeal given the rivalry between the main parties but we could and should have done better.
I look at this from the perspective of a former organiser who has tried to keep people's spirits and motivation up following the Euro elections when it seemed possible we would make a historic breakthrough but in spite of my best efforts after last year's elections enthusiasm waned.
Generally, some have left and some have joined other parties (mistakenly in my view)but the end result has been fraction and dilution of the nationalist cause.
This I deeply regret and my association with "reformists" does not mean I agree with all they say,or even like them all, just that something must be done to heal our wounds.
I have resigned from the post of local organiser but still want to play a part in our cause and if I can do ANYTHING to help heal our wounds and join together the various splinter groups which have emerged I will do so.
We must let by gones be by gones, cease recrimiations and reunite and pull together for the sake of our cause and country.
OUR COUNTRY NEEDS US.
We don't have to like everybody (it helps if we do) but WE MUST UNITE, or the outlook for our country and children is indeed bleak.
All the commentators are obviously true nationalists and have the cause at heart but have different opinions as to how our cause can be advanced.
To be honest I am not sure how, but I know there is a great hunger for a party which puts the interests of the British people first unlike the other main parties.
A major problem we have at present is the public's perception of our party and especially Nick Griffin.
As I stated in my previous blog I have every respect for his intellect and work to further our cause but we have to accept the fact that especially after his performance on Question Time and other gaffes he has become toxic to our cause.
I know he was under immense pressure at Question time and did land some punches but as a proffessional he should have anticipated the questions and any competent politician could have got out of them. Even I could have answered them and I am no politician.
There are things you do not say even if you agree with them.
There are things I have not said myself both as a BNP member and a Labour councillor which I knew would be political suicide.
How do I know?
People on the doorstep have told me so.
Whether we agree with them or not these are the people with whom we must connect and motivate to vote for us. However good our leader is if he puts people off voting for us he should be replaced and must be if we are to progress.
Secondly as one commentator said there is no efficient structure to inform members and supporters what is going on (nor indeed openness about financial matters).
This does not help to motivate people to join or contribute.
Thirdly, I know UKIP did badly but they are one trick party and irrelevent to local politics.
We have many economic policies which would help hard pressed citizens and which are relevent to local elections, but they were not pushed.
We should stress the economic arguments which resonate with people and all else will fall into place. Everybody knows our opinions about immigration and Muslim terrorism so why mention them. Concentrate on people's pockets and the taxes they must pay and the benefits they lose.
UKIP is Farage and in spite of his multiple appearances in the media it scores badly at local elections. Who else is in UKIP? Not many know.
That gives the lie that a well known leader with the gift of the gab will sway local voters.
Fourthly, I have been involved in the Party for nearly nine years and have seen its weaknesses in structure, finances and personnel and have pleaded for these to be rectified to no avail.
I have put in money to help our progress but my efforts have been ignored, not out of malice but inefficiency.
We are up against parties, well funded often by foreign interests and the media and thus have to be super efficient and squeaky clean. Thus anyone with any baggage which could hinder our cause has to be sidelined from public view or they will be set upon by the media.
I have not advocated any person as a new leader. I just believe we need a new one backed up by an efficient and lean administration which responds quickly to enquiries, pays its bills and is stable so that people know who to contact.
Last years leadership elections were not by any stretch democratic (although I voted for Nick Griffin), but now I think we need an open and fair contest this time to elect a new leader with campaigning by the candidates across the country as Nick Griffin has an inbuilt advantage, being well known.
I accept this year's local elections may not be a true reflection of our appeal given the rivalry between the main parties but we could and should have done better.
I look at this from the perspective of a former organiser who has tried to keep people's spirits and motivation up following the Euro elections when it seemed possible we would make a historic breakthrough but in spite of my best efforts after last year's elections enthusiasm waned.
Generally, some have left and some have joined other parties (mistakenly in my view)but the end result has been fraction and dilution of the nationalist cause.
This I deeply regret and my association with "reformists" does not mean I agree with all they say,or even like them all, just that something must be done to heal our wounds.
I have resigned from the post of local organiser but still want to play a part in our cause and if I can do ANYTHING to help heal our wounds and join together the various splinter groups which have emerged I will do so.
We must let by gones be by gones, cease recrimiations and reunite and pull together for the sake of our cause and country.
OUR COUNTRY NEEDS US.
We don't have to like everybody (it helps if we do) but WE MUST UNITE, or the outlook for our country and children is indeed bleak.
Sunday, 8 May 2011
Saturday, 7 May 2011
POSTCRIPT TO THE ELECTION
First of all congratulations to all BNP members who put their head above the parapet and stood in what was obviously going to be a diffcult contest with little hope of wiinning.
These patriots kept the flame alive and showed that in spite of all the odds we are still here and will be a force to be reckoned with in the future when the enormity of our country's problems hits home.
BUT We could and should have done better and the reason we did not was purely down to the leadership of the Party.
The best and most eloquent have either been expelled or given up hope and defected to other parties or given up activity in politcs altogether.
The ones remaining running the party are the sychophants, those deluded enough to believe they will ever gain power, the ones in it for the money, people who give our party a bad name and those who are appointed through nepotism. We have become the Nick Griffin PLC.
We are told the cause of our poor results is "infiltrators" and "Searchlight" moles.
If that were the cause then these moles from MI5 must still be in the party and not those who have left the party or been sidelined.
If you think about it if MI5 wanted to infiltrate they would attempt to reach the higher echelons of power and not be ordinary members.They would continue to "support" a dying party while betraying the good activists working hard on the streets and undoing all their hard work.
I have refrained from making these comments until after the elections lest I be regarded as a destroyer although I have already been accused of consorting with "malcontents"
I have not. I AM A MALCONTENT, as any rational person with the interests of the party and nationalism must surely be. How can I be content seeing the party I love being destroyed?
I was "summoned" to a disciplinary meeting for attending a "reform" meeting which was proscribed. I did not know it was a reform meeting but even if it was what is wrong with the concept of "reform", and why does the Party believe it has the right to forbid me from attending any meeting I like?
How can we be content when our area has been almost destroyed by arbitrary suspensions, disciplinary actions and disruptive appointments and a general lack of leadership.
In a nutshell I believe we need a new leader.
Nick Griffin is a superb speaker but as the proverb says "actions speak louder than words", and his actions in the last 18 months have shown he is unfit to lead a party which seeks national government and he did not exactly crown himself in glory at Question time or the Queen's Garden Party incident.
So the question is asked "who else could be leader"?
That is a difficult one and one which has stopped me from pushing for a new one, BUT the reason for this is that anybody who is suitable has either been suspended or expelled, thus rendering them unable to mount a challenge.
Think of this.
Since 2000 the Tories have had three leaders as have Labour and the Lib Dems.
Only Nick Griffin has been leader all this time.
Lib Dem politicians are now speaking about replacing Clegg. That would probably result in expulsion in our party.
Do you think that among all the BNP members there is nobody capable of leading our party? If so God help us and we are not fit for power.
I do not believe that. I believe those who posed a threat to the present leadership have been sidelined or driven out, but we have many intelligent and eloquent members who could take up the reins and further our progress.
I believe 100% in the principles of the British National Party as do a large proportion of the British people but we are not getting our message across.
We have no stable party structure nor audited financial accounts which I have been asking for for several months. If mistakes have been made in the latter, admit them and go forward but do not suspend people for asking.
Our country deserves a better nationalist movement as they have in Europe.
Nick Griffin brought us forward in the early years of this century and indeed was the reason I joined but I can feel the disillusionment among local people with the way our cause is going.
I am sorry to say this but he is a drag on our fortunes now and should do the decent thing and resign. I will not hold my breath that he will do so but if he really is a true patriot he should realise that his time is past and do so,---and then WE CAN UNITE AND RISE PHOENIX LIKE AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK
These patriots kept the flame alive and showed that in spite of all the odds we are still here and will be a force to be reckoned with in the future when the enormity of our country's problems hits home.
BUT We could and should have done better and the reason we did not was purely down to the leadership of the Party.
The best and most eloquent have either been expelled or given up hope and defected to other parties or given up activity in politcs altogether.
The ones remaining running the party are the sychophants, those deluded enough to believe they will ever gain power, the ones in it for the money, people who give our party a bad name and those who are appointed through nepotism. We have become the Nick Griffin PLC.
We are told the cause of our poor results is "infiltrators" and "Searchlight" moles.
If that were the cause then these moles from MI5 must still be in the party and not those who have left the party or been sidelined.
If you think about it if MI5 wanted to infiltrate they would attempt to reach the higher echelons of power and not be ordinary members.They would continue to "support" a dying party while betraying the good activists working hard on the streets and undoing all their hard work.
I have refrained from making these comments until after the elections lest I be regarded as a destroyer although I have already been accused of consorting with "malcontents"
I have not. I AM A MALCONTENT, as any rational person with the interests of the party and nationalism must surely be. How can I be content seeing the party I love being destroyed?
I was "summoned" to a disciplinary meeting for attending a "reform" meeting which was proscribed. I did not know it was a reform meeting but even if it was what is wrong with the concept of "reform", and why does the Party believe it has the right to forbid me from attending any meeting I like?
How can we be content when our area has been almost destroyed by arbitrary suspensions, disciplinary actions and disruptive appointments and a general lack of leadership.
In a nutshell I believe we need a new leader.
Nick Griffin is a superb speaker but as the proverb says "actions speak louder than words", and his actions in the last 18 months have shown he is unfit to lead a party which seeks national government and he did not exactly crown himself in glory at Question time or the Queen's Garden Party incident.
So the question is asked "who else could be leader"?
That is a difficult one and one which has stopped me from pushing for a new one, BUT the reason for this is that anybody who is suitable has either been suspended or expelled, thus rendering them unable to mount a challenge.
Think of this.
Since 2000 the Tories have had three leaders as have Labour and the Lib Dems.
Only Nick Griffin has been leader all this time.
Lib Dem politicians are now speaking about replacing Clegg. That would probably result in expulsion in our party.
Do you think that among all the BNP members there is nobody capable of leading our party? If so God help us and we are not fit for power.
I do not believe that. I believe those who posed a threat to the present leadership have been sidelined or driven out, but we have many intelligent and eloquent members who could take up the reins and further our progress.
I believe 100% in the principles of the British National Party as do a large proportion of the British people but we are not getting our message across.
We have no stable party structure nor audited financial accounts which I have been asking for for several months. If mistakes have been made in the latter, admit them and go forward but do not suspend people for asking.
Our country deserves a better nationalist movement as they have in Europe.
Nick Griffin brought us forward in the early years of this century and indeed was the reason I joined but I can feel the disillusionment among local people with the way our cause is going.
I am sorry to say this but he is a drag on our fortunes now and should do the decent thing and resign. I will not hold my breath that he will do so but if he really is a true patriot he should realise that his time is past and do so,---and then WE CAN UNITE AND RISE PHOENIX LIKE AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK
MOUSTACHES YOU CAN TRUST
I switched on the radio today for the first time in over 4 months. Turned out that there’d been some local elections and a referendum on whether to replace something called FPTP with something called AV. I’m not registered to vote, so I didn’t vote.
If I’d had a vote, I’d have used it to vote for FPTP and against all the main parties. My reasoning is simple: I’m sick of people fucking around with our political system. I don’t have any trust in the political class, and if they want to change something as fundamental as how votes are counted, it can only be because they see some thieving advantage to themselves. Because they sure as heck don’t want to represent the people of this country.
How do I know? Because I’m a smoker, and no politician pays any attention to us, even though we make up a quarter of the population. Nor does the media. They ignore us too. We may as well not exist. In fact, as far as they’re concerned, we don’t exist. If they can do that to a quarter of the population, then it can’t be too difficult to ignore everybody else as well.
I thought I was getting pretty disenchanted with politics a year or so ago, but I seem to have become even more disenchanted since then. I don’t want to know what these politicians think, or what they say, or what they do. Because there’s nothing I can do about it, except vote against them whenever I get a chance. I would’ve turned off the radio shortly after I’d turned it on, but it was on the other side of the room, and I couldn’t be bothered to get up and walk over to it. And I’d stopped listening anyway.
It must’ve been like this in East Germany back before German re-unification. Did anyone in East Germany actually listen to Ulbricht and co., or watch him on their Trabant TVs? Probably not. What was the point? There was nothing they could do about him. The Communists would always be re-elected. Well, it’s the same with us now. The professional politicians just keep on being re-elected, and then just go and do whatever the hell they want.
Nobody wanted a smoking ban, and there was no need for it, but we got one anyway. Nobody believes in global warming, but we’re going to get the stupid windmills anyway. Nobody wants to be a member of the EU, but we’re signed up to it anyway.
On days like this, I seriously wonder why anyone votes for any of the three main parties. I heard today that the Lib Dems had done very badly, and that it was punishment for going into a coalition with the Conservatives, and tearing up their manifesto in order to do so. Really? What did their voters expect? The main parties just promise whatever they think will win them votes, and then do something completely different. Labour did it with their manifesto promise to permit smoking in wet-led pubs. The Conservatives did it when Cameron made a ‘cast-iron’ guarantee for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and then reneged on it (naturally). The Lib-Dems tore up many of their manifesto pledges within minutes of the election last year. They’re all doing it. Why is anyone surprised or angry? If you vote for any of the main parties, you’re more or less telling them to do whatever the hell they like, regardless of what they may have promised before an election. And since they’re going to do that, why vote for one lying party rather than another?
Maybe that’s why the Scots voted for the Scots Nationalists. Because they at least sound like they might really mean what they say, whether people like their policies or not. Same with UKIP. And the BNP. As trust in the main parties collapses, voters will start taking pot luck with Anybody Else.
And this may be why all the politicians seem quite sure that the Lib-Con coalition government will last the full 5 years. It’s because politicians are getting more and more terrified of an increasingly disenchanted and volatile electorate. So they want to minimize the frequency of elections. They’d really prefer that there only be elections at 10 or 20 year intervals. Or, better still, none at all.
The way things are going, all I can see up ahead is increasing voter volatility, as they switch from party to party looking for somebody – anybody – who’ll actually, y’know, represent them. Someone they can trust. They’ll be looking for deeds, not words. Substance rather than spin. Truth rather than lies. They’ll be looking for men of principle. Any principle at all.
There’ll likely be sudden changes in the political landscape, as minor parties attract the huge wandering herds of disenchanted voters. The old parties – the lying parties – will dwindle away. You’ll find surprising new faces elected to power. They’ll be people who mean to do exactly what they say, and not something else. They’ll be people who aren’t prepared to compromise their convictions an iota. They’ll probably have stern faces and jutting jaws.
And, who knows, some of them may even have those trim little moustaches which were quite fashionable 70 or 80 years ago. Not extravagant moustaches that curl up at the ends. Nor soup-strainer moustaches. But moustaches you can trust.
http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/moustaches-you-can-trust/
I am registered to vote, and I voted NO to AV. I'm no supporter of FPTP, but I've wanted REAL PR for about 30 years now. AV is not real PR. WE either change the voting system properly, or there's no point bothering at all.
Morg
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If I’d had a vote, I’d have used it to vote for FPTP and against all the main parties. My reasoning is simple: I’m sick of people fucking around with our political system. I don’t have any trust in the political class, and if they want to change something as fundamental as how votes are counted, it can only be because they see some thieving advantage to themselves. Because they sure as heck don’t want to represent the people of this country.
How do I know? Because I’m a smoker, and no politician pays any attention to us, even though we make up a quarter of the population. Nor does the media. They ignore us too. We may as well not exist. In fact, as far as they’re concerned, we don’t exist. If they can do that to a quarter of the population, then it can’t be too difficult to ignore everybody else as well.
I thought I was getting pretty disenchanted with politics a year or so ago, but I seem to have become even more disenchanted since then. I don’t want to know what these politicians think, or what they say, or what they do. Because there’s nothing I can do about it, except vote against them whenever I get a chance. I would’ve turned off the radio shortly after I’d turned it on, but it was on the other side of the room, and I couldn’t be bothered to get up and walk over to it. And I’d stopped listening anyway.
It must’ve been like this in East Germany back before German re-unification. Did anyone in East Germany actually listen to Ulbricht and co., or watch him on their Trabant TVs? Probably not. What was the point? There was nothing they could do about him. The Communists would always be re-elected. Well, it’s the same with us now. The professional politicians just keep on being re-elected, and then just go and do whatever the hell they want.
Nobody wanted a smoking ban, and there was no need for it, but we got one anyway. Nobody believes in global warming, but we’re going to get the stupid windmills anyway. Nobody wants to be a member of the EU, but we’re signed up to it anyway.
On days like this, I seriously wonder why anyone votes for any of the three main parties. I heard today that the Lib Dems had done very badly, and that it was punishment for going into a coalition with the Conservatives, and tearing up their manifesto in order to do so. Really? What did their voters expect? The main parties just promise whatever they think will win them votes, and then do something completely different. Labour did it with their manifesto promise to permit smoking in wet-led pubs. The Conservatives did it when Cameron made a ‘cast-iron’ guarantee for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and then reneged on it (naturally). The Lib-Dems tore up many of their manifesto pledges within minutes of the election last year. They’re all doing it. Why is anyone surprised or angry? If you vote for any of the main parties, you’re more or less telling them to do whatever the hell they like, regardless of what they may have promised before an election. And since they’re going to do that, why vote for one lying party rather than another?
Maybe that’s why the Scots voted for the Scots Nationalists. Because they at least sound like they might really mean what they say, whether people like their policies or not. Same with UKIP. And the BNP. As trust in the main parties collapses, voters will start taking pot luck with Anybody Else.
And this may be why all the politicians seem quite sure that the Lib-Con coalition government will last the full 5 years. It’s because politicians are getting more and more terrified of an increasingly disenchanted and volatile electorate. So they want to minimize the frequency of elections. They’d really prefer that there only be elections at 10 or 20 year intervals. Or, better still, none at all.
The way things are going, all I can see up ahead is increasing voter volatility, as they switch from party to party looking for somebody – anybody – who’ll actually, y’know, represent them. Someone they can trust. They’ll be looking for deeds, not words. Substance rather than spin. Truth rather than lies. They’ll be looking for men of principle. Any principle at all.
There’ll likely be sudden changes in the political landscape, as minor parties attract the huge wandering herds of disenchanted voters. The old parties – the lying parties – will dwindle away. You’ll find surprising new faces elected to power. They’ll be people who mean to do exactly what they say, and not something else. They’ll be people who aren’t prepared to compromise their convictions an iota. They’ll probably have stern faces and jutting jaws.
And, who knows, some of them may even have those trim little moustaches which were quite fashionable 70 or 80 years ago. Not extravagant moustaches that curl up at the ends. Nor soup-strainer moustaches. But moustaches you can trust.
http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/moustaches-you-can-trust/
I am registered to vote, and I voted NO to AV. I'm no supporter of FPTP, but I've wanted REAL PR for about 30 years now. AV is not real PR. WE either change the voting system properly, or there's no point bothering at all.
Morg
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