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Originally Posted by Mountaineer
Thank you both for your welcome. I haven’t explained myself properly so please except my apology. Basically I’m poor, I live in council accommodation, the only employment in my area is agency work, and you have to compete for work against immigrants, who are also being exploited. To be able to buy a house or flat you can only borrow three times the amount of your wages, therefore you would need to earn at least twenty pounds an hour approx, and be in secure employment. The only party that acknowledge this fact is The British National Party. If people want to campaign against the BNP, then maybe it’s not a good idea to make ex-labour voters feel like thieves and rogues, for being poor. I don’t believe that it’s anyone’s intention to make the poor feel bad, we just work to survive, and with the rise in homelessness, most people in my situation are now looking to crime and gang culture, not a political solution. To be honest I’m starting to think that maybe I’m wasting my time?
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Welcome M - I share many of your concerns. You have rightly identified the problems with the BNP.
Our membership of the EU allows into Britain individuals who are used to very low pay rates in their home nation [along with the 200k pa who come from elsewhere] and are therefore prepared to work here at rates which would not provide a reasonable living to British nationals. Many of these economic migrants plan to accept poor conditions for a period of time to accumulate cash so that when they return to their home land their savings will place them in a very favourable position. Alternatively, if they find their skills well rewarded here they may stay. Either way it is to the detriment of British workers.
If things do continue in this way British workers, whose skills do not command high rates of pay, will have to adapt and create some underclass which battles to survive day in and day out - a condition which does and did occur in many parts of the world, but until recently was considered unacceptable to the vast majority here. However, it is reported that Brown is being encouraged [which means it is likely to happen] to remove many of the benefits presently given to the least fortunate so that they have to compete with economic migrants for these low paid, but impossible to survive decently, jobs. Shanty towns seem to be on their way.
As to what party to support, clearly one that is against the EU, but I think you knew that already. UKIP does not really cater for the left of centre, it seems to me that this is a mistake as, since New Labour bears no resemblance to Old Labour whose concerns were the least fortunate, there is no party representing this group. Also UKIP is not a broadly based party with the aims generally accepted for political parties. They are essentially a Tory pressure group whose prime aim is to split the Tory Party, hoping to attact the anti EU element to its doors.
The English Democrats is probably your best choice since they are trying to develop a political party in the normal sense of the word and whose policies do seem closer to the centre.
It does seem to me, if none of the parties do make an effort to represent the least fortunate, in time, they will be driven into the arms of the BNP and Powell's prediction of 'rivers of blood' will become an actuality.