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Date: 08 June 2009 06:20:04
So the politicians have picked up that they need to engage with the disillusioned whose votes the BNP picked up last night. Question is how to they engage with the silent majority who didn't vote. The BBC site is currently telling me, with only a few results left to come in that of the forty plus million entitled to vote only just over fourteen million did. That leaves twenty six million people who didn't bother, many because of apathy or disillusionment.
I hope that in their attempt to stem the growing support for the BNP that the politicians don't go for more knee jerk right wing pronouncements. The stats are indicating that this is not what people want. It appears that the largest winner, percentage wise, from the disillusionment with Labour was the Green Party. If, as I would guess from discussions I've had with others, that they are picking up most of the disillusioned socialist vote this is something else that needs to be borne in mind.
So where does that leave us? I don't know...... what we don't know is what the majority of non-voters think and want. On a personal level though this is a wake up call. Sitting on my arse saying, "woe is me who has no one to represent me anymore" is exactly the attitude that gets the BNP elected whilst the other parties struggle to get canvassers. I think it is time to reconsider and re-engage.