Britain's 2010 Elections

Well they are coming up soon and thought it'd be interesting to see what Romulation members thought. Sorry but i guess this really only applies to users in the UK but comment anyway!

Now, is my name suggests this is the first election where i'm gonna be eligible to vote. Now i have a general idea of the political system and parties here. But it seems to me that the three major parties have very little difference in the policies that they are pushing. However they don't really seem to be giving much info on how they PLAN on getting this goals achieved. So i'm at quite amiss as to who i should vote for....

Then again it also seems that there's little reason for me to vote anyway- the way that the balloting is supposedly done is that votes only really count in certain major areas etc. Also it seems that which ever party is voted in, unless they've got over 50% of the votes, most of the people in the country don't want them in in the first place.

My final tussle with this fiasco: none of the parties are gonna have the best idea in every single policy- one party will have a better idea for one thing i.e. education while another will have better ideas for e.g. the economy. This is the way it is. So isn't it logical to have a sort of political system where the parties have a percentage power governed by the number of votes that they get from the population. that way parties can ACTUALLY debate ideas and policies and come up with better outcomes. I hear that this is common in a lot of the other European countries.

 

I have some questions about the election in Britain. The 2010 elections, is it for the House of Commons or is it like elections for like mayor, governor...etc?

 

Yawn, it'll be a hung parliament with all three parties getting a similar amount of seats. I'm not going to bother voting, scottish votes don't seem to count for some reason...

 

im voting BNP
read their policies http://bnp.org.uk/policies/
makes sense to me

 

D: but they're racist.............If I could vote, it'd be for the conservatives.

 

then you know nothing about them, your just saying what you have heard

 

But everything is anti-imigrant, they don't want to help us they want to get rid of them.

 

read their policies before you comment

 

I did, I still think the conservatives are much more appealing.

 

then this country is going to carry on going downhill till it hits the bottom....

 

That is if we get the BNP....and I'll change my comment about them being racist, they're more xenophobic.

 

Britain suffers from more than 27,000 crimes per day, or more than ten million crimes per year – the direct result of decades of softly-softly politically correct policing and a failed social engineering policy which has put the rights of yobs and criminals above that of victims.

According to the Office for National Statistics’ British Crime Survey of 2008, 22 percent of people in Britain will be the victim of some crime during the course of a single year.

To combat this shocking state of affairs, the British National Party seeks a return to traditional standards of law enforcement, combined with social reform directed at addressing the root causes of criminal behaviour.

To this end, BNP crime and justice policy will:

- Free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket which is stopping them from doing their jobs properly;

- End the liberal fixation with the “rights” of criminals and replace it with concern for the rights of victims – and the right of innocent people not to become victims;

- Re-introduce corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals;

- Restore capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute (such as with DNA or other compelling evidence).

At the same time, the BNP recognises that decades of social welfare dependence – encouraged by disastrous Labour and Tory policies – which is the primary cause of social delinquency, must be brought to an end.

Social reform is therefore also required. Workfare, not welfare, except to the neediest, should be the norm. Only in this way can the cycle of social deprivation, which is the primary cause of indigenous criminality, be broken.

To this end, the BNP will introduce a system of workfare for those in unemployment benefit for more than six months with compulsory work and training in return for decent payment.

The socialist building block housing concrete monstrosities which blight our urban areas and which are the breeding ground for delinquency and crime will be torn down and replaced with decent housing which encourages the stable family unit.

Non-indigenous crime – rapidly becoming a serious problem, as the knife and gun crime epidemic spreading throughout our major cities – will be dealt with in terms of BNP immigration and identity policy.

Overcrowding in prisons will be solved by the deportation of the tens of thousands of foreign criminals to serve their sentences abroad in their home countries. This act alone will free up to 70 percent of jail space in many prisons.

The BNP will also:

- Make prisons more austere and make criminals serve their full sentences. Offenders will be made to understand that they are being punished and not rewarded with a state-subsidised holiday for their crimes;

- Use electronically tagged “chain gangs” to provide labour for projects such as coastal defences;

- Introduce automatic prison sentences for all repeat offenders;

- Put police back on the streets and remove their current political correctness shackles;

- Allow victims of crime full freedom to defend themselves and their property;

- Make joint custody of children the norm in divorce cases;

- Grant anonymity to those accused of crimes until they are convicted;

- Make police concentrate on real criminals and serve the public, not the government’s political aspirations.

The British National Party alone recognises that crime must be tackled on two levels: firstly by effective policing, and secondly by addressing the root social causes of crime, both indigenous and non-indigenous in origin.

Addressing these two issues will solve the crime problem.

The time has come for change.

 

Reasons why I hate them:

Re-introduce corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals;
That's in-human

At the same time, the BNP recognises that decades of social welfare dependence – encouraged by disastrous Labour and Tory policies – which is the primary cause of social delinquency, must be brought to an end.
That's not political, that's a way to slag other parties off

Non-indigenous crime – rapidly becoming a serious problem, as the knife and gun crime epidemic spreading throughout our major cities – will be dealt with in terms of BNP immigration and identity policy.
Oh look, blaming knife and gun crime on the immigrants

Overcrowding in prisons will be solved by the deportation of the tens of thousands of foreign criminals to serve their sentences abroad in their home countries. This act alone will free up to 70 percent of jail space in many prisons.
Blaming the immigrants, and if they do a crime here then they should do their time here

Introduce automatic prison sentences for all repeat offenders
What if a repeat offender didn't do the crime the next time?

 

its a fact

yeah because i want my tax spent on foreign criminals when it could be used to increase hospital funding or education

??
then they wouldnt be a repeat offender....

 

Based on what evidence?

But say they did a terrorist act or something and they went back to their country who were proud of them for it, then it'd be stupid for them to get rights.

I meant if they'd already committed a crime and got accused of a second one, they'd then automatically get a second sentence even if they haven't committed the second crime.

 

I don't know much about Britain's politics, but I know the BNP has an irrational hate for Muslim people so I'm totally against it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071014195726/http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=1057

 

You sir, are amazing.

 

seriously, something has to change, this country is going to crash.
im not saying BNP is right in everyway but it has the balls to say the truth where every other party is ruled by political correctness.
if BNP or UKIP start getting big votes other parties will follow suit and maybe this country will get a decent government that isnt ruled by "corectness" over the welfare of the country.

if people just properly look at whats wrong with the country and forget all the human rights shit then BNP make sense
the countrys future is more important than a few unhappy do-gooders

 

...Wait, scratch that. If it means more Muslim people are going to move to California then I'm ALL for the BNP! We need more effin' Persian cuisine!

And you're going to support religious persecution? Congrats, man.

 

It's not correctness, it's down right xenophobia on the BNP's part.