Hey Jaymie, been a while since you commented (one of the first

Comment on Reasons to Vote British National Party by David.

Hey Jaymie, been a while since you commented (one of the first commenter’s on the site).

When I’m commenting I try to separate BNP supporters from BNP officials, I’m sure I’ve slipped up occasionally where I’ll say BNP when I mean BNP supporter, but I don’t believe you for example have any say in BNP policy (unless you are a BNP party official?) just like I have no say in Labour policy.

To date I think we’ve had two BNP officials post comments and one of them (Michael Barnbrook) hasn’t confirmed he’s running as a BNP candidate in the general election, so with Michael I try to be careful not to suggest what he says IS BNP official comments (if he does become a BNP candidate then his comments hold more importance).

“Secondly many people think that Nick Griffin is the BNP and is a symbol and icon for every single supporter.”

In some respects Nick Griffin is the BNP, Labour/Conservative have hundreds of MPs, the BNP has two MEP’s, so they are not the same scale wise. Labour/Conservative BIG, BNP small.

It’s not surprising with a small party like the BNP people associate it’s leader as the party, not true of course, but far more accurate than if you said Gordon Brown is the Labour party.

“Its about time we stopped spinning facts in our own opinions and throwing around accusations like children, all the while insulting the government for doing the same thing.

If you support a part say why. If you don’t say why. If you’re struggling for who to vote for say why. If you want to state any relevant facts, you guessed it, say why. That is the purpose and meaning of democracy, or it use to be.”

I couldn’t agree more, unfortunately every time a comment thread starts on a subject unrelated to the BNP it quickly turns to the BNP.

Example: https://general-election-2010.co.uk/who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-2010-general-election-poll/comment-page-4/#comment-2794 Terence ruins the debate with two stupid BNP comments.

Another one https://general-election-2010.co.uk/who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-2010-general-election-poll/comment-page-4/#comment-2860 talking about how Labour in the poll have increased, turns to BNP.

Both examples above started by Vote No To BNP, so he tries to discuss things beyond the BNP, but BNP commenter’s won’t let a thread run without bringing in party politics :-(

David