Let me throw a small spanner in your “infiltrated by the (UAF/stop

Comment on Reasons to Vote British National Party by David.

Let me throw a small spanner in your “infiltrated by the (UAF/stop the BNP)” argument.

I own this website and I’m anti-BNP, I don’t belong to any political groups, I like running website’s and have an interest in politics, I also vote at every election. Not for one minute did I see what has happened to this site occurring!

I made this site because I’m concerned the Tories will gain power next general election (I’m a Labour voter) and that worries me, I remember what they were like under Thatcher!

I was hoping for open discussions on politics generally, not just the BNP and immigration.

When Nick Griffin was invited on Question Time I made a post about it on the site and through my research found a Facebook group (called Say no to the BNP on Question Time” that IMO was filled with UAF members/supporters (I wasn’t too sure who the UAF were at that point). I felt strongly about Nick Griffin appearing on Question Time and argued against the UAF trying to stop Nick Griffin appearing on Question Time. Almost 1 million votes in a democratic election gives a party a mandate to speak for those people, my arguments fell on deaf ears, one UAF member even said “You seem to be acting a bit like a fascist sympathiser, I must say.”!

Because I was posting on an anti-BNP Facebook group and linking to this website, pro BNP supporters picked up on the general election poll and on multiple website’s Facebook groups (pro BNP) they posted a link to this poll asking their readers to vote BNP (which they have). And some have become regular commenter’s.

The link to the poll is being regularly posted on pro BNP website’s, the same is not true on anti BNP website’s or general political sites. This has resulted in far more pro BNP visitors than I expected considering the numbers who voted BNP in the EU elections. Basically there’s the ‘normal’ visitors coming in through search engines like Google, who are voting for Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems etc… in the poll (few of these visitors are commenting!) and then pro BNP supporters who are mostly entering the site via links from pro BNP website’s and they are voting BNP in the poll and commenting.

To suggest this site has been infiltrated by UAF/Stop the BNP members is a joke! It’s the other way around, it’s the pro BNP supporters who first took over the comments on this site and it gave a one sided picture to the sites ‘normal’ visitors, so I went to another Facebook group (not the one filled with UAF supporters) that was anti-BNP, but not specifically UAF pro and asked for help in balancing the arguments here.

Now the arguments are more balanced the pro BNP commenter’s are complaining and saying anyone against the BNP must be a UAF member which is a little naive to say the least!

The pro BNP commenter’s are getting beaten in a fair exchange of political ideas and arguments. Isn’t that what politics is all about, if your arguments and ideas are better than your opposition, you usually win the argument?

David