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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
ouch.  in france, the front national (i think it's about the same as the BNP) won 3 seats, which is shamelful. the european parliament is discouragingly conservatist and right-wing. http://q.liberation.fr/flash/electio...rte-Europe.swf (blue is right wing, pink is left wing, orange is centrist). the party i voted for (europe écologie) won 14 seats in france, so that is good, but it could have been better. and the swedish pirate party won one seat, which should be interesting. |
The BNP is probably the same as the Front National. It actually sits in an odd place on the political spectrum - a lot of people view them as being extreme right because of their racist views, but a lot of their other policies/beliefs are more socialist than anything (thus proving my Sociology teacher's point that the extreme left and the extreme right can be indistinguishable).
The people that have annoyed me most are those who said they voted BNP as a protest vote. ESPECIALLY those for whom the BNP won't do anything for.
And currently having an internal rant at myself and wondering how a personality trait that used to serve me well has recently(ish? longer? dunno) turned round and bitten me badly and become a serious problem.