Comments on: We need to get out and vote in London http://www.tmponline.org/2007/12/14/we-need-to-get-out-and-vote-in-london/ The multicultural political magazine and forum Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shehnaz Ingar http://www.tmponline.org/2007/12/14/we-need-to-get-out-and-vote-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-476 Shehnaz Ingar Fri, 01 May 2009 23:51:10 +0000 http://www.tmponline.org/?p=298#comment-476 i am a teacher. i find it difficult to to untangle the web of politics. i want to play an active part in voting so that the BNP don't increase their seats. how do i go about it? could we learn from Ghandi how to tackle racism? law, socialism and profound selflessness just may shed some more light. my personal view: people should be able to express their prejudicis and racist ideas. may be in clinics where help , advise and education could be accessed as a form of cure. i am a teacher. i find it difficult to to untangle the web of politics. i want to play an active part in voting so that the BNP don’t increase their seats. how do i go about it?

could we learn from Ghandi how to tackle racism? law, socialism and profound selflessness just may shed some more light.

my personal view: people should be able to express their prejudicis and racist ideas. may be in clinics where help , advise and education could be accessed as a form of cure.

]]> By: Tom Chance http://www.tmponline.org/2007/12/14/we-need-to-get-out-and-vote-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Tom Chance Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:01:46 +0000 http://www.tmponline.org/?p=298#comment-364 I think that some Tories are playing dangerous games with the BNP. The fact that the BNP have asked their voters to give second preference to Johnson could be a determining factor in who becomes Mayor. Like it or not we must face the fact that support for the BNP is increasing. Some Conservatives may be tempted to welcome the BNP support whatever their leadership and candidate say publicly. One Tory I know says he is urging a Johnson/Barnbrook vote. I think that some Tories are playing dangerous games with the BNP. The fact that the BNP have asked their voters to give second preference to Johnson could be a determining factor in who becomes Mayor. Like it or not we must face the fact that support for the BNP is increasing. Some Conservatives may be tempted to welcome the BNP support whatever their leadership and candidate say publicly. One Tory I know says he is urging a Johnson/Barnbrook vote.

]]> By: Jennette Arnold AM http://www.tmponline.org/2007/12/14/we-need-to-get-out-and-vote-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Jennette Arnold AM Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:49:07 +0000 http://www.tmponline.org/?p=298#comment-339 Murad Qureshi AM is so right about this, I was in City Hall in 2004 when the winners of the Mayoral and GLA Assembly seats were being announced and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck, my heart rate went into overdrive, due to the anger and repulsion I experienced when it looked as if the British Nationlist Party (BNP) had pipped the then UK Party to the last London-wide seat. I have similar feelings now when I look up and witness them sitting in the chamber of City Hall, and at times heckling Mayor Livingstone. That why one of my pledges for the 2008 May 1st London elections is to fight for every vote, so that we can stop the BNP getting a List seat on the London Assembly. I look forward to working with readers, Murad Qureshi AM, John Cruddas MP and others over the coming months to achieve this Goal. Murad Qureshi AM is so right about this, I was in City Hall in 2004 when the winners of the Mayoral and GLA Assembly seats were being announced and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck, my heart rate went into overdrive, due to the anger and repulsion I experienced when it looked as if the British Nationlist Party (BNP) had pipped the then UK Party to the last London-wide seat. I have similar feelings now when I look up and witness them sitting in the chamber of City Hall, and at times heckling Mayor Livingstone. That why one of my pledges for the 2008 May 1st London elections is to fight for every vote, so that we can stop the BNP getting a List seat on the London Assembly. I look forward to working with readers, Murad Qureshi AM, John Cruddas MP and others over the coming months to achieve this Goal.

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