well without being simplistic, what really gets me pissed off about about politics is that people see no connection between cause and effect. I'd make a lousy politician, because I just tend to see people who don't see the connections as fucking idiots.

You can blame Blair I suppose for radicalising a section of the Muslim population - getting us involved in Iraq. And that in turn has a knock on effect, because the more vociferous that minority get - the more threatened the rest of us feel in a post 7/7, 9/11 world.

However, we can't elect anybody else apart from Labour, as the tories have this agenda of seeing the rich allright top priority.. And you can always make thing a bit more 'efficient', secure a few more tax breaks for the really stinking rich with the loss of a few million jobs. And didn't this BNP gang secure its present toehold in all those years when Thatcher and Tebbit were robbing whole areas of the country of their self rspect by closing down major industries - as though it had as little consequence as closing down an unprofitable corner shop.

the reason politics is called politics and not idealism is that there are choices to be made. Because he supports the idea of the wealth of the country being more evenly spread, Blair and his party (much as it might stick in your craw) are the best anti BNP vote.