Nationalist vote merely a protest

Such a victory would have been a shock, but it would have highlighted the failure of social democratic politics in this country in general and in this town in particular, to cater for the needs and wants of the people in general.

Surely the vote for the nationalists is no more than a protest vote, the political parties having fallen short of fulfilling the needs of the electorate.

At one time, the protest vote would have gone to the socialists, but they have shown themselves to be no more than political tailenders to the Labour Party.

People feel that we live in a world of comparative plenty, but the plenty however is reserved for a few. Though most people live with more gadgets than their parents, still poverty and insecurity abound.

Our streets are filthy, unswept and clogged up with cars on the pavements and on the road as well. Transport for the poor and elderly is chancy and expensive to say the least. The health service has long lost any edge it had and education is the play thing of the politicians.

Above all is the constant threat of unemployment and a return to the horror days of our grandparents. All the nationalists do is lay the blame for all this on the backs of the Asian or black community while ignoring the failure of politics as a means of change or real improvement.

Why should they do otherwise? The system works for the establishment, why should it not work for the BNP? All they want is their place in the sun.

What we the voters need is a system where power lies in our hands, where we can make our own mistakes but, through our own involvement, find our way forward to controlling the mechanics of our own lives and not being the perpetual victims of a vicious and corrupt, but failed, political system.

A better, less shocking, way of showing our disdain for our political masters surely would be for us to boycott the election altogether.

Name and address received THE claim by the Burnley MP that a victory in the local elections for the BNP would have been a "disaster" is typical of the level of politics in this town.

Such a victory would have been a shock, but it would have highlighted the failure of social democratic politics in this country in general and in this town in particular to cater for the needs and wants of the people in general.

Surely the vote for the nationalists is no more than a protest vote, the political parties having fallen short of fulfilling the needs of the electorate.

At one time, the protest vote would have gone to the socialists, but they have shown themselves to be no more than political tailenders to the Labour Party.

People feel that we live in a world of comparative plenty, but the plenty however is reserved for a few. Though most people live with more gadgets than their parents, still poverty and insecurity abound.

Our streets are filthy, unswept and clogged up with cars on the pavements and on the road as well. Transport for the poor and elderly is chancy and expensive to say the least. The health service has long lost any edge it had and education is the play thing of the politicians.

Above all is the constant threat of unemployment and a return to the horror days of our grandparents. All the nationalists do is lay the blame for all this on the backs of the Asian or black community while ignoring the failure of politics as a means of change or real improvement.

Why should they do otherwise? The system works for the establishment, why should it not work for the BNP? All they want is their place in the sun.

What we the voters need is a system where power lies in our hands, where we can make our own mistakes but, through our own involvement, find our way forward to controlling the mechanics of our own lives and not being the perpetual victims of a vicious and corrupt, but failed, political system.

A better, less shocking, way of showing our disdain for our political masters surely would be for us to boycott the election altogether.

Name and address received