Our Limits

"We believe that, within the law, all political opinions have a right to be heard and are legitimate subjects for political debate".

However there are more problematic cases, especially in the case of an extreme right wing political party now operating in Rotherham, whose core beliefs would be unacceptable to most people, if they knew what they were!.

Their strategy is to cover themselves with a veneer of acceptability and appeal for votes concealing their true motivations based on hate and division.

We cannot be totally neutral in this area and we have decided that we will not have anything to do with giving publicity, even indirectly, to a party that is covered by the above.

What is our view when another, slightly more mainstream, party enters an electoral pact with another extreme right wing party that is 'beyond the pale'?

"We take the view that this means that party, even if their policies differ from their extreme pact partner, is nevertheless asking their extreme pact partners voters to vote for them. This alone makes it impossible to give this party publicity also".

The two political parties affected by this principled decision are, we believe, not interested in anyway improving the lot of the people of Rotherham.

They are engaged in nasty, mean spirited and dishonest campaigns in Rotherham.

They exploit issues that have some resonance in local communities as a cloak to disguise their more malevolent and spiteful intentions.

We will not be the political playthings of those pursuing national issues by creating or exploiting local community division.

We are perhaps more aware than most of the problems that the people of Rotherham endure. We also know that these parties cannot help us with these problems, indeed they are intent on making matters worse for us who actually live in the Borough.

In truth they want to con you into voting for them as the best way to 'protest' in Rotherham, it is Not and Never will be.

This year there is more choice of candidate than ever and we are confident that this will improve significantly in future years.

Don't be seduced by the siren voices of these extreme right wing parties.

Please don't consider voting for these extreme right wing troublemakers.

These political parties should dissolve their disgraceful and cynical electoral pact and again organise independently, unless of course, they really are at heart one and the same and are merely flags of convenience to fight elections in Rotherham.

If any reader has a view on this please post a comment by clicking on the link below.

Update February 2009
Now that UKIP has rejected all electoral pacts in the future, a link to their website has been added to the links section.