Why you shouldn't vote BNP ...

The General Election is just a couple of days away and I hope you’ve decided on who you are voting for. I’m not here to push my views onto people, but there are a few issues I want to raise. Well, one view – DO NOT vote BNP.

You might be lucky enough to be in a constituency where they are not represented, but my former home of Stockton South does have a candidate and I am currently reading his hand-out, and it is a load of shit. Let me take you through it.

Neil Sinclair starts his dirtsheet with a little introduction to himself, which I am going to quote directly:

“I was a Labour voter for over 30 years but became disillusioned by the policies of Blair + Brown and their open door policy on immigration and forced multi-culturism, only the BNP can stand up to this nonsensical and out of hand political correctness, my other concerns are, the state of the NHS, crime + anti-social behaviour, and the threat of terrorism, our political leaders seem hell-bent on destroying everything we hold dear, at every turn the true British citizen is faced with discrimination, ridicule, and even persecution, what future will there be for our children + grandchildren ?.”

One sentence ladies and gentlemen. Would you really vote for someone who can’t string a proper sentence together? Not to mention cannot spell for shit (my apologies Mr Sincalir, Microsoft Word auto-corrected a number of your mistakes), cannot use grammar properly, + cannot be arsed to type “and” half the time. For all of BNP’s nonsense about being British they can’t even use the language.

The A4 sheet of paper then lists the BNP’s “policies”, all of which are justified by fear-mongering, lies and outright stupidity. Let me take your through:

Immigration: According to the BNP, 98.5% of job vacancies go to immigrants. Did you know 96.8% of statistics are made up? Come on; if you believe that clearly made up number you don’t deserve a vote. They also say Britain’s population with grow to 74 million in 20 years, but they say this is because of immigration – wrong, it is actually due to the ever increasing birth rate and it is a worldwide problem. They close the paragraph with “the British with be an ethnic minority in ... only 60 years” ... “British” is not an ethnicity; it is a nationality, once again proving the BNP cannot use the English language. In this section though not a single policy is mentioned, because honestly, do you really think the BNP have any idea how they would handle immigration? They don’t even understand the process.

Crime: The BNP falsely claim that 20% of the prison population are illegal immigrants. In actuality, 84% of the prison population for males are white British nationals, and 11% are black British nationals (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=7363). The Ministry of Justice also reports that the majority of criminals for violent or drug related crime are working class white males. The BNP also promise to restore capital punishment, despite the fact that places that use capital punishment have a much higher crime rate than places that don’t.

Afghanistan: Their policies in relation to this show their ignorance. They argue that “human rights” is not good enough reason to justify it, despite both World Wars being fought because of human rights violations. They also ambitiously promise to bring our troops home “NOW”, despite it, you know, being impossible and all that jazz.

NHS: This paragraph is a selection of statistics, no solution is offered, once against showing the BNP are clueless to the issue.

Education: “most 5 + 6 year olds can’t write their own name”, “40% of children are incapable of proper reading + arithmetic at age 11” – both of these are lies as figures released by a number of independent organisations show British children are getting smarter year-by-year. Plus, Neil Sinclair can’t even write properly and he wants to tell you how education should be done? He also wants to “restore discipline”, despite that being directly related to misbehaviour among children.

Christian Heritage: As an atheist, this policy infuriates me. To summarise, the BNP want to force what they call “traditional western values” onto children, violating human rights laws. They quote the former Archbishop of Canterbury who said how bad Sharia laws are, yet they fail to mention that the current Archbishop of Canterbury advised the use of Sharia law in this country. They strangely also forget to mention the current controversy over Paedophiles in the Catholic Church, funny that.

Smoking: Yes, this is an issue for them. They call Parliament “HYPOCRITES.!!” for banning smoking in pubs, despite it now being European Law and a law that is being implemented all across the world because of its dangerous link to cancer and other health problems. The BNP, apparently, wants you to die earlier.

European Union: In a demonstration of massive stupidity the BNP will pull out of the EU, in light of the massive economic benefits being members of the EU entails. Sinclair talks about restoring “Britain’s freedom”, forgetting of course that Britain is subject to international law regardless of what Union we are a member of, and that the European-wide law we subscribe to has no negative effect on our freedoms. Of course the BNP is going to be anti-European, because under European law half of their policies would be ILLEGAL – but guess what? Europe on no Europe, the United Nations will have something to say about various BNP policies.

“Policies”, by the way, that are not mentioned here. Policies like removing art and social science courses from Universities. This means no English Degrees, no Politics Degrees, no Law Degrees, no Drama Degrees, no Music Degrees, and no History Degrees ... only Science Degrees.

How about increasing military spending, making national service compulsory? They also want to allow an American-style “right to bear arms” law, or to quote them directly, “men should keep a rifle and ammunition in their homes”.

The BNP want to reduce the amount of aid Britain gives. You might agree with this is you are a selfish arsehole.

Also, seeing as we live in the 21^st century, the BNP want to make homosexual relationships and mixed-race relationships illegal.

Need I say more?