What I find so very sad about all of this debate is the fact that I’m forced into a position where I’m even investigating BNP policy.
I feel very strongly about the sacrifices made by recent generations which protected our right to vote in a free and democratic country and that political homogeny has lead to rampant voter apathy.
What saddens me is that the aforementioned political homogeny has led to us having two electable parties between whom it’s no longer possible to tell the difference. Of course, the representatives from both sides will be more than happy to point those differences out but when you examine the record of inconsistencies on both sides it doesn’t fill me with confidence that either side is telling the truth.
Watching the myriad interviews and independent(?) observations, all I can see representing the two (or three if you insist) electable elements – and therefore ultimately my country, are people offering tit-for-tat retaliations about political policy minutiae and who are so steeped in “the party line” that they are no longer able to seperate that from the genuine concerns of their constituents. I see a political stodge topped with my own deep concerns about the trustworthiness of the people concerned who stike me (and have for years) as people whose major concern is not the outlook of their country but their own bank balance and public image.
There is an oft used phrase: “a career in politics” which applies nicely to these people, many of whom who have entered politics direct from University and it represents another major concern. Politics should never be about a career. The primary aim of politics should be about serving the best needs of the country. If a career results from that then so be it but at the moment we are being governed by people who have never really seen politics as anything but a career when it should be viewed as public service.
If this country is ever going to give itself a chance to avoid domestic collapse in so many areas it has to do something radical to remove these career-politicians and install people who feel it is their duty of public service to address the genuine (not politically manufactured) concerns of the population.
Like it or not, the only people to really offer this approach as a genuine option are the BNP. I have to admit that when I first started along this line of thinking I was more than a little nervous about where it might lead but I have to say that although there are still some areas where I need to do more research, so far the solutions they are offering to the problems which affect and / or concern me are realistic and refreshing.
What’s ironic about the whole argument though is that the people whose successive mismanagement has caused me to think this way in the first place – the politicians – would be the first to brand me “racist” if I were to publicly air my views, the irony being that they’ve completely missed the point that I’m “Joe Average” and just one of an ever growing base of potential voters who -should they chose to break away from their petty bickering for a while and genuinely concentrate on the issues that concern “Joe Average”, just might win my vote.
