Count me in.

I felt so guilty when I found out the numbers of BNP in Wigan.

I'll certainly be making an effort and doing my research next time around.

The next General Election will be very interesting. Brown should hand his cards in now and save what little face he has left. Still haven't got a clue who I'd vote for out of this bunch

rl7,517 did in Wigan - the most of anywhere in the North West. Makes you feel really proud doesn't it?rl

Quite right.... people who don't vote have no right to express an opinion, as they have forfeited that right... So vote or just shut up. Should be compulsary as in Australia..

but we're stuck with this moron for 5 years now

Makes me feel sick.

I don’t get all this "protest" vote malarkey. If these folk who voted are so British then surely they might realise the links between the BNP and Nazi/Fascist groups across the globe. This includes the KKK!.

When will people realise that we are an Island Nation and that we have been colonised by everyman and there dog over the last 2000 years (and before). We have always been building on immigration.

Did anyone else get the BNP leaflets through the post?. The amount of Bo*&cks it contained made me chuckle. At one point it blamed immigrant Polish workers for stealing jobs etc, the next paragraph it praised our war heroes and likened the BNPs fight to the "Battle of Britain"!!!!!. Don’t these fools know that the Polish Air force helped out the RAF during the conflict?.

Morons the lot of em

As I've said for ages.

Oh my god.

These people need educating and fast.

Why though?

Can they not express why they didn't vote?

To be fair you don't know all the parties political manifestos so you can't really say they're all the same and I suppose it doesn't put you in a position to give an informed optinion. That being said, I didn't vote either due to me not knowing much about the whole thing.

Wouldn't make the people actually care about their vote though.

It might, just might get a few people to actually take an interest in the people who run the country they live in and the way they run/are going to run it.

I'm not sure I would want compulsory voting; in my opinion it goes against the point of democracy as people are as entitled to not vote as they are entitled to do so.

I am interested in the reasons why people don't vote though and what I think is important is that as a result of this recent election people have been made aware of the pitfalls of not doing so. Hopefully this alone will make those people more interested in who is representing them at parliamentary and local levels.

You stole everything I was going to say!

I voted and I'm glad I did, but I'm thoroughly embarassed at the amount of Wiganers who have voted for the BNP.

i didnt vote simply because i have no interest in politics and have better things to do with my time than read through each parties manifesto's

i therefore exercised my right not to vote

whilst i fully respect the sacrifices made by people to enable me to be free enough to be able to vote, if i had voted it would have been a waste of a vote so i didnt