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Categories: life-and-musings

Date: 21 April 2008 22:35:39

The problem with refusing to vote from a position of ignorance is that when the BNP are standing for election you have to read their manifesto.

And now I feel as if I have ants crawling under my skin.

And I still don't know who to vote for, but it won't be for them, because hurrah hurrah hurrah the bishops have said it's a mortal sin.

To be fair, the bishops didn't actually say "voting BNP is a mortal sin," and didn't mention the BNP by name, but it got twisted by the Press into "Bishops say 'voting BNP is mortal sin.'"

What they actually said was "There is broad agreement in principle across the main political parties that no party or candidate should pander to the racist emotions of a small proportion of the electorate. In practice, however, this is not always adhered to. Some issues (asylum, immigration, affirmative action, street crime, policing, etc) can be articulated in such a way as to have racial overtones."

See their "elections and voting" advice here.