I’ve been following the posts and have made a few posts myself.

Comment on Reasons to Vote British National Party by stuart.

I’ve been following the posts and have made a few posts myself. I’m unsure why some people seem to think that if you vote BNP you are racist.

Racism isn’t tied to a political party, I am sure that there are many (racist) people who support the other parties (but I guess the main difference is – they keep it to themselves. There is a major issue at the moment, with immigration,which
is why all the parties have put it on the agenda.

People talk about multicultural society, but in the cities I have lived in, is it working well? or is it not? (that’s an open question.) I guess the answers will depend on where you live in the UK and your experiences. All experiences are valid.

Something is not working? And I don’t think the BNP can be held responsible for creating the tension or as the lib dem leader put it “chaos”.

Having looked at the lib dem policy. They have said that ‘illegal immigrants’ who have been here for 10 years and can speak English can stay? So what about the ones who cannot speak English? Is this racist?
The policy is flawed.

What happens if you have a family of ‘illegal’ immigrants, where the son can speak English, but the parents cannot? Are the lib dems going to send the parents back but keep the son?

Like a lot of people, my question would be: Why are they still here after 10 years? Who is paying for their upkeep?

Other things to ponder. A lot has been made of off-shoring jobs abroad. A example: Average programmer in the uk 25K average salary in India 3K. A lot of insurance companies have done this. Call Centre roles, average UK salary £16K, salary in india £2K.

Now everyone knows, that there has been a backlash about using foreign call centres. Customers complained, IFA’s complained and in some cases there have been adverts on the TV saying UK Call Centres only. Does that mean these companies are racist and if you use a particular company because you want to deal with a English callcentre you are racist?

What protection do any of the main parties offer British workers? I’m all ok for a free market, but the British programmer does not have a chance in hell, competing with abroad? This just doesn’t apply to IT staff.

A friend of mine is a plumber and he has advised that he is in competition with ‘foreign’ plumbers who undercut him, so he cannot complete. He’s not racist, but what do you suggest he does? He could lower his charges, but he has a mortgage to pay for? Meanwhile, his competitors, save their money and send it back home, where it goes a lot further. I am sure if we were in their position, we would do the same. But to my friend this is unfair.

There have been some posts regarding taxes. Here is something to have a think about. I know lots of eastern Europeans, who drive their cars over here without UK insurance. They don’t pay road tax, and to avoid this every 6 months drive back across the boarder and then come back to England again. I’d like to see a policy brought in, which resolves this.

What are the Lib dems going to do about this? We can talk about uninsured British drivers, but there will be a change coming up very soon, where all UK cars are recorded. Of course this will not apply to foreign vehicles.

David has made some comments about skilled workers being needed.

Why aren’t we training our own people (when I say own – I don’t just mean white people, I mean British people – after all lots of them have paid their taxes, is it not least they deserve)

Granted there are some lazy people in this country. But what have any of the main parties done in the last 15 years to resolve this?

At the moment as things stand:

The car industry is knackered
The NHS is in a right state
The financial industry is in a poor state with more job losses (none of the political parties – did anything to stop the mass redundancies)
Crime is a joke.

The parties have had years to sort this out (they blame each other but at the end of the day – they are all in parliament and vote), I don’t think all can be blamed on immigration or the recession and neither can they be blamed on the BNP.