A plea: DON'T vote tactically. But bear in mind the BNP.

With the upcoming election now only a week away, you've probably heard and read hundreds out documents urging you to vote tactically. This blog intends to persuade you to do precisely the opposite.
Whatever your political standpoint, it makes sense not to deny it to yourself. Not to suppress your opinions in a liberal democracy, for fear of letting another party in, or just because you think it won't make any difference otherwise. I'd like to set you straight now: this is bullshit.
It's bullshit for a number of reasons. First of all, if everyone stopped tactical voting and just voted for precisely who they wanted, the party might not get in, but there'd sure as hell be a message that something was happening. It would make a statement if nothing else. And finally some of the minor parties would be getting recognition for having some really decent policies (in some cases, at least!). So it would certainly not be a wasted vote.
And it wouldn't be a wasted vote anyway. Because voting is such an important thing, so vital and integral to your identity, to vote for a party dubiously who you don't believe in or rather, you don't want to be voting for, would be somewhat fraudulent. So I urge you to please be true to yourself and keep your integrity: vote for who you want to, not who society is telling you to vote for.
That said, the likely consequence of this happening would be a hung parliament - though not necessarily; it depends who you vote for. I should now go off into a little spiel about why you shouldn't vote for Lib Dems but that would be in a way kind of hypocritical so I'll leave that one out for now. But basically I do side with the opinion that a hung parliament would be bad - not because laws would be difficult to pass, and I do appreciate the democratic mix of voices that would make it up - but simply because voting reform, which the Lib Dems are promising to pass, would not be a good thing right now. Perhaps PR would be a good thing to have in theory, in the future. But right now the threat of the BNP really is too real. They only got those seats in the European Parliament BECAUSE the European Parliament uses Proportional Representation. If this voting reform stretches to British Parliament, I'll be terrified. I can see it now - a hung parliament occurring, closet Tory boy Clegg all big and beamy about his success and people praising him while he negotiates a secret agenda with Mr. Cameron. Meanwhile, while everyone's fussing about this, before we know it, we have members of the BNP with seats in the Houses of Parliament. And all because of Proportional Representation - voting reform that the Lib Dems want brought in.
I'm not denying that in an ideal world, it might be a good thing to have. But need I remind you that our world is certainly not ideal. Not yet at least. We need to concentrate on crushing these fascist Nazi thugs that call themselves politicians, before we can resuscitate the sensible world of politics as we once knew it.
So please, don't be put off by all these leafletty pieces of propaganda. Vote for who YOU want to. Even if you vote in the BNP, if it's democratically voted, at the end of the day, fair is fair. My problem is I truly do NOT believe that people would vote these people in power, if they TRULY understood what they were all about. So if you're going to vote for Lib Dem, do it, and do it decisively - don't let threats of a hung parliament put you off. But do please ask yourself before you do it, whether you have the heart to vote for a party who want to introduce voting reform at a time that the BNP could really use it to their advantage.