I heard this morning that there is to be a BNP candidate in Cardiff West. It started me thinking. Isn’t it a shame that you can’t have a ‘no’ vote? So that when you go to the polling station you not only vote for the party of your choice but you also get to vote no to your least preferred party. This would be a help to parties with little backing, they would know when to give up and stop wasting their precious time and resources. It would be a help to me also as I would get an opportunity to let the BNP know that I think they are wrong. About almost everything.
Don’t you hate those people who say ‘ Well if the blah blah party gets in I am leaving the country’? They never do, do they? Well if the BNP got in, by which I mean as a majority party, then I really would leave the country, under protest. Even though they wouldn’t have to pay me to do it.
I discussed this with a colleague who pointed out that people would start turning up at the polling stations, exercising their ‘no’ vote and neglecting to vote yes for any party. Well this is preferable I think to not voting at all and would send a clear message to the government that political reform is badly needed.
I know it is pie in the sky but wouldn’t it be great if one day every four or five years everyone who wanted to got to officially say ‘no’ to the BNP?
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