“The argument about the BNP is rather infantile.” What precisely is infantile about

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

“The argument about the BNP is rather infantile.”

What precisely is infantile about my arguments?

Kind of funny coming from a person who’s arguments are generally deluded. So how many MP’s do you think the BNP will get next year? You say a few, does that mean 3, just curious for the “I told you so” comments I plan to make after the general election when Nick Griffin isn’t Prime Minister and hopefully not an MP either :-)

I wonder what the bookmakers odds on are for Nick Griffin to be an MP next year?

What you call “people vote by tradition” I call people voting for the party they most agree with out of what is available.

Take the reasons my wife and I vote Labour.

I voted Conservative when I was about 18 years old, my mother voted Tory and despite having no money at that age I voted for them because I knew one day I’d have money and I wanted to keep it all (I was selfish). Now I’m making a good living I see things very, very differently (we don’t need all the money I earn) and I’m happy to share through taxes some of what I earn to help the country run better. You get what you pay for and if you pay the government peanuts for services, expect a service suitable for monkeys.

My wife has always voted Labour other than when voting tactically (we both voted Lib Dem in an area where Labour didn’t stand a chance).

So we both traditionally vote Labour, because we both see Labour as the best of the two main parties.

That being said as Labour have remained in power neither of us are that impressed with Labour right now (they have become weak), but we are both far less impressed with how the Conservatives ran the country last time they were in power and don’t trust the Conservatives to do what is right for the hard working people of Britain.

We are in a situation of supporting Labour’s general aims, but not being happy with how Labour MP’s are running the country, so what do you do???

We won’t vote Conservative, we disagree even more with the BNP’s aims, UKIP again not what we want, Green’s erm, no thank you have you read their policies, they care more about animals than people!! Lib Dems, maybe, but only in an area where they stood a chance of winning and even then we have a two party system and I want the people I vote for to actual have some power to act on my behalf.

Conclusion we have little choice but to vote Labour or waste our vote.

We’d change our vote IF there was a viable option, but there isn’t.

All that being said we live in an area that in 2005 had a Conservative majority of around 6,000, so with Labour’s support falling significantly since the last election we know Labour won’t win here.

Best we can hope for is a hung parliament and I’m not sure that would be good for the country. A Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition would be interesting IMO.

I see what you mean we aren’t a part of the “thinking public”, we vote Labour because we’ve always voted Labour and to change would give us headaches.

David