“their website is very popular. I guess what you are saying is

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“their website is very popular. I guess what you are saying is that they won’t get many votes. 45 million yep sorry my mistake! Though 1-2% is quite a lot of people combined with the UKIP, that’s still a lot of people.”

There is a big difference between a popular website and votes, I know of at least 1000 people a day that visit the BNP website (I am one), but we don’t visit because we are supporters we visit to see what they are claiming now so we can get the real facts and figures, so massive difference.

“The impression that I get in this part of the world (Bristol/Gloucester) speaking down the pub that quite a lot of people are going to vote BNP just as a protest vote”

You said the key words there “Protest Voters”, protest voters don’t tend to research the party, they decide based on knowing it will in some way piss of the main parties, they don’t do it through belive in the party or it’s policy, they rarely bother to actually examine the policy.

For instance:

I was in a pub the other night chatting politics as I do (I had my laptop with me), a few people said they would vote BNP, I asked them why and they didn’t really know other than a protest vote.

So I asked how many policies of the BNP they knew, and 100% said the immigration and nothing much else, so I spent the next two hours showing them the BNP website and it’s policies, and low an behold once they could see exactly what voting bNP meant all but one changed their kind, the other is still thinking about it.

“There’s been much news suggesting a hung parliament. So my question would be if that was the case, and then in 10 years time things hadn’t improved, where does that leave the voter? ”

We were just talking about a hung parliament on another thread, and in some ways I think it could be good for the country right now, get some balanced policies that will keep the wolfe from the door so to speak.

As a nation it is very unlikely that we would become a bankrupt nation, we are slowly getting out of the shit (not quick enough) but having said that sometimes a quick re-birth can also damage the economy, we need to make sure the recovery is balanced and not too fast, but at the same time we need to make it move a little faster than it is now, I would like to see around 0.05% growth in the next q, to keep things moving.

“There was one thing that I also don’t like, and that is our stance with Iran. You would have thought that we had learned our lessons from what has happened in Iraq/Afghanistan. I would prefer we did not fight with Iran but what happens if we do…. isn’t this just going to alienate our muslim community even more and create more issues… ”

At this present moment in time I 100% agree with that statement.

Sorry I haven’t answered all your points, been a long day and some require more detailed responses :)