65 years after our grandfathers fought against Nazism, two members of the British Nazi Party have been elected in the North of England.

Admittedly most of the people who voted for them will have been inbred half-wits from small towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire, but it still doesn't make it any easier to take that one of the Euro MEP's for our region will be Nick Griffin.

People who would rather vote on Britain's got talent or Big Brother than in a democratic election should be ashamed of themselves. After all, our right to vote was another thing our forefathers fought on the beaches of Normandy for.

This terrifies me.

I cried this morning. I don't know if it was tears of anger, fear, sorrow or a combination of them.

Those who didn't vote, may aswell have voted BNP to be honest.

rlTHISrl man is being sent to represent the North West of England in Europe.

rlNot In My Namerl

It is scary how they are gaining so much support. I was horrified last week when the people on Burnley voted for a BNP councillor (especially as I live in Lancashire!) and then for them to also get seats in the European Election really is worrying.

How many people have voted for them because they believe in their policies though and how many because they have voted for anyone but the "big 3"? Either way though they are gaining power which they shouldn't be.


And your point about people who don't vote is a sad reflection of society overall today and how little interest people have in politics - there is too much apathy towards it all unfortunately.

I do have and take an interest in Polotics however found myself unable to vote on Thursday due to the fact that I knew so little about the candidates or indeed the European policies of the parties that they represented.

I am abhored that the BNP has gained seats but without the required knowledge of knowing who or what I was voting for I could not make an informed choice.

Our forefathers fought on the beaches of Normandy and in many other countries and places as well to secure our rights and freedom of speech and enable us to live in a society where we have options and choices.

We still have that and whilst you may disagree with other peoples options and choices it is nothing whatever to do with you and none of your business to critisise or judge.

It's people like you that our forefathers fought to keep us from!

Why on earth you should want to bring it up on a RL message board is totally beyond me

i voted for the B.N.P, so what?? altenatives labour er no, tory er no again the list goes on

This is a very good point, however, the BNP getting voted into the European Parliament may turn out to be a good thing.

For far too long, the 3 mainstream parties have gone along with their heads in the sands (well, more like in the troughs, if recent revelations are anything to go by), refusing to actually get on with sorting out the mess that this country has got itself in to over a variety of issues, including immigration.

Since the 70's, turnout at elections as been on the decline and not a single mainstream party as done a jot to tackle this apathy...an apathy which has now got us into the present position of extremist politicians finding themselves voted into positions of power.

Last night's results should serve as a warning to all concerned, that simply sitting back and doing nothing can only be a bad thing...The BNP, and their like, thrive on apathy.

There is debate to be had over immigration and various other subjects, and it is upto mainstream politicians to pull their fingers out and get back to running the country, instead of caring more about which leader can save their jobs at the next election, and which expense they can fiddle next.

You are right. We do live in a democracy and people should be able to vote for who they want to vote for.

i think the problem is in certain parts of Rochdale, Oldham & Burnley you can't go to certain areas after dark or certain shops or restaurants if you are not a certain colour or of certain origin. The Police are too scared to upset the apple cart after having riots before so the only way that people can see to rid them of this problem is to vote for BNP.

I don't really wanna cause an argument on this but i can see both sides of the coin. If current politicians and Police had the balls to tackle the problems people would not feel the need to vote the extremists in. If this is the right way to tackle this issue i do not know and i'm glad we don't have seem to have this issue in Warrington

There must always be mild restrictions on the freedoms of anything.
Otherwise there would be the freedom to murder (extreme i know).
Freedom to do anything of benefit to society are the only freedoms im interested in.
would you not judge a murderer or a rapist ? i don't know you but i would make a safe assumption that you would, purely because every human judges someone.

Extremist views will always prosper in times of economic and social distress even in such a tolerant country as England.