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Date: 17 April 2006 10:54:21
We have local elections on May 4th.
I've just had the BNP land on my doorstep. For the unaware, that's the British National Party, a party whose politics are deeply abhorrent to me.
So, there's a knock on the door, man in a suit standing there. I thought at first he was a Mormon, and was about to do the "I'm just getting ready to go to Mass," thing, when he speaks.
"Good morning, madam. Would you be interested in voting for the BNP in the upcoming council elections?"
I look him up and down in my best "git orf may laynd, before I set the dogs on you," manner and say, in tones of deep shock "good grief, no, never in a million years," and shut the door, sharpish.
Why do I never get normal political parties canvassing for my vote? Why is it always the nutcases and weirdos and fringe parties?
British National Party: "Sorry, no, my priest told me that if I voted for you I'd be in a state of mortal sin."
Christian Peoples Alliance: "Sorry, no, God told me not to vote for you until you learn how to use apostrophes properly."
Respect: "Sorry, no, my inner pedant told me not to vote for you until you learn to distinguish between 'less' and 'fewer' in your manifesto."
Why do Labour and the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats and even (God help me) the Greens only ever see fit to poke a leaflet through my door?