Election results....

[annwfyn]

I'm less upset that Boris Johnson is mayor, and considerably more upset that the BNP took 5.33% of the total vote.

That's thousands of people. 48% of registered voters turned out to vote, and I believe that's several million people. Five per cent of them voted to ban women wearing the islamic veil from public transport, to encourage the police to harass young black men, and overall voted for a party who say that if they ever come to power on a national level, their first act would be to offer £50,000 to anyone of Black or Asian descent who is prepared to leave the UK and return to their country of ethnic origin.

There's a candidate, representing these things, on the London Assembly.

That is upsetting me.

At least the Green party has two seats, so I guess my vote counted for something.

*sighs*

I feel like the world it is a'changing. And not in a good way.

Comments

[adze.livejournal.com]

According to the BBC site, it's something like 69,000 people who voted for the BNP, which is a terrifying number.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of committed racists living in London....

[pmp.livejournal.com]

Or a lot of people who are very scared of the direction the country is going in and don't think through what their vote actually stands for.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

How can anyone not be aware of what their vote stands for?

On the first page of their manifesto is 'we want immigrants and the descendents of immigrants to go back to their country of ethnic origin'. How can anyone miss the significance of that???

Are people really that stupid?

[pmp.livejournal.com]

Yes, unfortunately people *are* that stupid. They'll get behind ideas like "get the imigrants out", because they don't think it includes their mate Pretesh, who've they've been drinking with for years.

People will always be happy to stand behind someone yelling out against a group of people they blame for their problems, because they don't think who it might actually include.


I bet if there was a party taking a stance against hoodies and chavs, a fair few people I know would stand against it....

[taimatsu]

Does that include the descendants of, er, the Normans, the Jutes, the Angles, the Vikings, etc.? *headdesk*

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I did read their manifesto and wonder when they were going to wade into the contentious world of anglo-saxon archaeology and migration theory. Was there mass migration in the c.5th-c.8th? Was there not? The DNA evidence is inconclusive and there are lots of theories...

[adze.livejournal.com]

I hope I'm wrong on this, but sadly, there's probably also a lot of uncommitted racists there too, who will now vote BNP next time around because they've just shown that the BNP can get a seat there, so it wouldn't just be a wasted vote.

One of the really appealing things about London is the mish-mash of different cultures you can come across just from walking down the street - I think it's amazing, and I struggle to comprehend why people would want that to change.

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

Alongside my "BORIS? WHAT?" thing is the "and 70,000 BNP votes. How did this happen?" thought.

I'm appalled by that.

[gothicmissy.livejournal.com]

*shakes head sadly*

[anysbryd.livejournal.com]

Its quite easy to see why so many people voted that way, vast portions of the country particularly those who visit london only occasionally are shocked by the ethic diversity and are against it. Unless something changes radically in soon they will have a lot more seats in the future, the world is changing and while there are people like us who are happy to get along with others, there are a lot of people who do not believe in such a world and will work against it, britan for the bristish is a slogan I have heard a lot this election and i have heard a lot of support for it. Immigrants taking jobs, and generally taking over but they are of course not looking at the detremental effect the british people have on our economy compared with the boast given by a large portion of the imigrant work force. It is overall a very difficult area.

I have written lots and i dont know if i have got my points across. As a side note, i did not vote for them.

[badgersandjam.livejournal.com]

Were you about for the great Meibion Glyndwr "British Out Of Wales" propaganda extravaganza???

[eladriell.livejournal.com]

You should be proud of that fact!

Welcome to Democracy. All voices will be heard. All opinions valued, no matter their moral worth. Voters who back the BNP are hardly gonna take over are they? and the fact that these little parties get to stand or even gain a few seats lets everyone be reassured they live in a nice fair happy little place...just god forbid the proles should ever become a majority eh!?!

Cant let people like THAT have any real power can we? Classless system my arse...


*mutters* bah, damn hangover makin me grumpy...