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Griffin to contest Barking seat

Mr Griffin says he is a defender of "Britishness"
"BNP leader Nick Griffin has said he is going to stand in the Westminster constituency of Barking, east London, in the next general election."

Reason enough to start getting 'political' and decide who to vote for !

Nick Griffin can go to hell
he may win there

Dear All

Hello

That fella is a very clever, sly manipulator.

The trouble is he is a stirrer and jumps on the bandwagon.

Yuk.

Best wishes
xx

Barking?!?!?!?!

He's got two chances there, fat chance and no chance. It's a mainly Asian population there PMSL.

Maybe the battering he got on Question Time finally tipped him over the edge.

I hope he's laughed out of the borough.

~~~~~~~~ Elizabeth and Keith :))

He makes my flesh creep, really does, I think the next election will be no time for 'voter apathy' !

xx PS ~~~~ Teresa too :))

Hmmm odd choice.

He's going head to head with Margaret Hodge and she has a majority of over 8000.... from the little google I've just done.
I think he's hoping to have a *Portillo* moment there ..and is banking on loyal Labour voters staying away.

I think voter apathy is the biggest danger in this election.

Haven't time to look again but was Margaret Hodge a bit OTT with her expenses or something? Her name doesn't stand out as one of the worst offenders tbh.,,,just wondered if that may be the reason he's decided to stand there.xx

If he gets the defeat I think he will, I am delighted with the news:)))

People not bothering to vote is one of the biggest problems and such a danger to democracy.

Should voting be compulsory do you think?
Is that a viable proposition?

Nice idea, Rose - but I fear it would only lead to spoiled ballot papers - and then what do you do about people who decide "compulsory doesn't mean me?"

I've tried time and time again to persuade friends that voting isn't a luxury but a duty. I've cited the women who gave up their lives in pursuit of the right for women to vote in this country,

Whoever said that apathy is the greatest threat to democracy at the moment got it right.

Sue x

Dear Rambling Rose

Hello

People can always spoil their ballot papers to protest.
So folk are going to the polling station and exercising their right to vote.

A record number did so at the last council/district elections and the general election in 2005.

Best wishes
xx

I wonder what that actually achieved, Elizabeth?

Spoiled ballot papers (as I'm sure you know) are discounted - so what's was the point?

Sue x

But isn't that one of the points of democracy Uggers?...The option to vote?...or 'NOT' vote?.....it wouldn't be a democracy if we were 'made' to vote!.


( please don't rip me to pieces with one of your very clever answers.......I am not a well gell and really should have a symphany thread all to myself.......failing this plea.....I know the kray's brothers aunties dogs brother's cat....so beware!!!

lol Susanwithnumbers:) I think you're probably right. Making people vote is probably not the way. Kicking people up the backside might be;)

Nick Griffin is certainly mad, but perhaps not in choosing to contest the seat in Barking. Barking & Dagenham have already got, or have had, a BNP presence in the local council chambers; and, I rather think that the BNP did well there in the last European Elections,

I have a bad feeling about this.