Monday 21 February 2011

A people-powered movement

Hi,
I want you to watch a video of the many Yes! Campaign to Fairer Votes supporters. I think it truly shows how powerful a people-centred movement can be:

http://www.yestofairervotes.org/peoplevideo

I'm fed up with dishonest politicians who are far too concerned about their party and don't think logically for themselves.

We live in changing times and it's beginning to be possible for our votes to count for something.

This, in my view is the best option that we have at the present time.

Let's go for it!

As a supporter from Cardiff says in the video, "It's about ordinary people taking a stand to change the face of politics and democracy, not just for a generation, but hopefully for generations to come."

We've got our chance in the referendum on 5 May 2011. The proposed Alternative Vote ("AV") method of electing MPs builds on the strengths of the current system while eliminating many of its weaknesses.

Politicians will be forced to work harder to earn and keep our support. People will at last be able to vote for what they really want.

5 comments:

Josh said...

Great, I'll be voting for it as my mates down the pub say it'll improve the chance of the BNP getting in . Don't like that? Its democracy!

Geoff Dellow said...

Yes wouldn't it be great to get things out in the open and demonstrate to the narrow minded minority that their views aren't acceptable.

Anonymous said...

Well i am sure the BNP would have not cut everything and they were the only party that would have got our army out of Afghanistan.

Please explain why David Cameron is better than Nick Griffin?

Josh said...

Mmmmm? Such a "clever" answer and one rather typical of the left wing liberals who have done so much to ruin this country. Their attitudes have done a great deal to polarise the electorate so that parties of the far right have gained in support and popularity, specifically the BNP. By the way my first post was an exercise in sarcasm - I do not support the BNP though i think I understand their popularity; and thats the difference Geoff between the likes of you and me.

You and your fellow leftists cannot bring yourselves to see - not the merit of the BNP - but rather the FACT that many many people actually DO see the merit and with good reason.

You intellectualise politics so that everything becomes rather ethereal, lofty, instead of acknowledging and addressing the effects that politics and policy have on ORDINARY people, their lives and experience.

Sympathy for the far right is not born out of the pages of The Daily Mail, I doubt if many BNP supporters read it anyway. Rather, the "enlightened" classes in blanking the BNP and its support completely miss the reasoning behind that support. Immigration is a case in point.

BNP fans see the results of mass immigration all around them, they don't READ it, they experience it. They also see that no major political party is going to do that much about it, instead they are treated to lectures about the "enrichment" of our society, they are told that mass immigration is great, that "multiculturism" is good. (Incidentally, are not multiculturism and integration contradictory terms ?!).

When they dare to suggest that perhaps multiculturism isn't such a good thing they are immediatrely dismissed as racists, bigots, "Narrow minded"! Step in the BNP!

Well, they don't all fit your description. My cousin has spent most of his life in the public service, living in Manchester. The area he lives in has, over the years been turned into a "different country" to the one he grew up in. Whole streets are renovated to accommodate strangers who waste no time in picking up the money and being cared for in ways the indigent population have never experienced. It would be the same for him were these people from Bristol or Newcastle rather than a different colour, its the perceived unfairness which riles most people. Result - he always votes BNP. Not because he wants a BNP government but because he wants to send a message to those in power and to folk like yourself - that all is not well, that the liberal imaginings emanating from the dinner parties of Islington (and Union Lane??!!!) don't really have a place in the real world.

I see i have gone on a bit. I'll end by saying that you really need to stop seeing dissent from the liberal/left line as the ramblings of a "narrow minded minority" rather see them as real concerns and worries experienced daily by ordinary people. Don't dismiss them - address them - then you wouldn't have to worry about the BNP. None of us would.

Geoff Dellow said...

Josh,

You're great at winning an argument against a straw man.

How about getting stuck in at grass roots level.

Meet some real people.

A spell on the allotment would be an enlightening experience, perhaps.