“THINK; Do you really want to vote for despicable parasites who prey on the innocent people?”
….screams the headline of the HAVERING PATRIOT, the local BNP party’s leaflet stuffed through my door. “Of which despicable parasites do you speak?”, I ask. Luckily the leaflet provides examples. Reading though, and roughly checking the allegations presented, I would broadly have to agree with them that, no, I am unlikely to want to vote for any of them. Of the 17 people listed:
Three I will not vote for because:
- They are Conservative candidates.
- They are not standing in my constituency, I couldn’t vote for them if I wanted to.
Thirteen I will not vote for because:
- They are Labour candidates.
- They are not standing in my constituency, I couldn’t vote for them if I wanted to.
The remaining candidate is Frank Beck, (actually, they say Becks), a Liberal Democrat and thus escaping the first sorting, but I still won’t be voting for him for three compelling reasons.
- He’s not standing in my constituency, I couldn’t vote for him even if I wanted to.
- He’s not standing for election at all, this makes voting for him tricky.
- He’s dead. The final and most fatal nail in the coffin.
I read the leaflets, 3 of them, quite carefully. (Often painfully, as it seems spell checking and basic grammar were clearly less important than wiping all the rabid foam off). Some of the new words and phrases invented are quite good, though I think they’ll have trouble with “tri-axis of treason”, quite a few people nouned that before them. The presentation is a confusing mix of random italics, bits in bold for no `real` good reason, odd font sizes, varieties of quotes in which the most mundane axioms are headlined at you. “Vote BNP, The party made of real Men and Women.” Well, err, yes, I accept you’re probably real, can’t fault you on that one.
They have a picture of some kind of machine pistol on the leaflet. None of the text in any way refers to this picture.
One of the leaflets states two alledged facts.
“Fact #1: The Conservative Party, the Labour party and the Liberal-Democrats all want Turkey to join the EU.”
On the face of it, this seems broadly true.
“Fact #2: The BNP is the only party which opposes Turkish membership of the EU and the Islamification of Britain.”
Oh really? (Emphasis mine). I confess I’m struggling to find a link between Turkey joining the EU and the likelyhood of Britain being swayed en masse to convert to Islamic culture. I like bacon, sorry.
Please do vote on May 6th, please don’t vote for the BNP.