Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

I’ve been moving comments around on the site to make it easier for new visitors to find relevant comments. I wrote about it at https://general-election-2010.co.uk/commenting-policy/ so I’ve not deleted hundreds of comments, just moved them to relevant pages (deleted a very small number that added no value).

If the first comment in a thread was about voting Labour it’s now under reasons to vote Labour, if the first comment is about voting BNP it’s now under reasons to vote BNP. Not moved them all, left a sample under this page as well (there was 1,200+ comments under this page).

You make a very good point about the comments most being for or against the BNP, it’s a real shame as I can see from reading between the lines most commenter’s don’t think the current situation is acceptable, but party politics get in the way: can’t agree with a BNP supporter, it gives them a point sort of attitude instead of agreeing where they agree.

As I’ve been moving the comments around I’ve been reading many for a second time and others for the first time (2,000 comments, hadn’t read them all!) and it’s surprising how many good worthy of debate comments have generated little interest beyond do/don’t vote BNP!!! Like you say, the comments quickly degrade into two entrenched sides of for or against the BNP.

I’m sure we’d see the same thing if we had no BNP supporters, but instead had a combination of mostly Labour and Conservative supporters. It’s the same in the Houses of Parliament, if our actual MP’s can’t manage to work together on agendas they agree on, what hope do we have?

I was toying with the idea of posting some pages for non political commenting, but don’t think it will work, it’s the nature of politics I suppose.

I was hoping https://general-election-2010.co.uk/your-top-5-political-issues-poll-and-who-to-vote-for-in-the-next-general-election/ would generate some interesting discussions, but so far the only relevant comment was from Richard the Meerkat, which I moved from here. I realise 54 people voting isn’t a big sample size (poll is 10 days old), but there’s already an indication of the important policies being:

Asylum and Immigration Issues
Crime and Justice Issues
Economy Issues
Afghanistan War and Iraq War Issues
European Union Issues

David

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