Realistically with the BNP currently not having one MP, they’ll be breaking

Comment on Reasons to Vote British National Party by David.

Realistically with the BNP currently not having one MP, they’ll be breaking new ground if they get one MP next year.

There is a tendency for the British public not to vote for the smaller parties in general elections, so they might not even gain a single MP.

All depends on where the BNP’s EU election support came from, was it real BNP supporters looking for the BNP to take power or voters giving the political establishment a kick in the teeth (protest vote) during what is perceived by many a not very important election. If the latter, the BNP support may crumble during a ‘real’ election.

Can ask a similar question for UKIP which like the BNP is perceived by the general public as a one policy party, with the BNP it’s immigration and with UKIP it’s Europe. Neither party is helped by the news coverage it gets, it almost always covers those two areas for the BNP and UKIP.

It’s happened here as well in the comments, I’ve not guided these comments at all and they are all about immigration, which is a very important subject, but not the be all and end all of politics for most British people. There are many things more important to me than immigration/Europe.

The economy comes top of the list for me as a business owner and sole earner in my household.

Being self employed job security isn’t really a big issue, (I’m making more money since the recession).

Mortgage rates are important, I bought a house 3 1/2 years ago pretty much at the peak of house prices, but I’ve already paid off well over half the mortgage and low interest rates are great right now. We won’t be moving so what we lost in property prices falls will recover (it’s only an issue if you plan to sell).

How to deal with unemployment is very important to me, because high unemployment means either higher taxes or a reduction in services (or both).

The NHS is close to my heart, had a serious operation on my back 8 months ago (had two discs fused) and I saw first hand how most NHS staff work hard for their patients.

I would hate to see the conservatives run down the NHS again in the name of saving money and cutting taxes!

It would concerns me if the BNP got in power what they’d do about all the foreign workers in the NHS? We don’t have enough British born doctors and nurses, so if the BNP start offering financial incentives to leave the UK, which is a very negative attitude to multiculturalism, I could see a lot of highly skilled workers leaving the NHS and that would be a disaster!

There’s more to Britain than immigration, but the BNP don’t get that.

David