Letters - 17 May 2013
From UKIP to Minute 36
Protest vote?
After the recent success of UKIP in our local elections, is anyone else worried about the size of the protest vote in this country? Given the right conditions, could the success of a protest vote sweep an unsavoury totalitarian party into power? Perhaps a line with the name left blank could be added to ballot papers and counted. Goodness knows what we would do if ‘no one’ won but it could be our biggest adventure, spark genuine debate and, hopefully, some innovative thoughts on how we govern ourselves.
Mary K Marshall
So, UKIP have made significant inroads into County Halls with their politics of fear and politics of hatred. Only binary thinking, or not thinking at all, can lead one to believe that our socio-economic problems are down to immigrants.
Haven’t we been here before? Isn’t this what Golden Dawn, presently, parades in Greece? Didn’t we see this in Rwanda in the 1990s, in Bosnia in the 1980s and, most chillingly, in Germany in the 1920s?
The Quaker testimonies lead us away from the politics of fear and hatred and to the politics of justice, freedom and love.
I think I would rather put my faith in Quakerism than the divisive politics of UKIP.
Gerard Bane
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