Share of vote, very strange difference between parties

I don't know who you are, and I don't know what you want... I can tell you that I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long degree in political science, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop sprouting rubbish now, that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will reply to you, I will argue with you...

And I will beat you.
 
Makes you wonder why it has taken until 2011/2012 for people to start really analysing and asking questions about our electoral system and democracy. Was the financial crisis the catalyst, do you think, or just the p*sspoor state of politics itself? I'm guessing the former: most people aren't bothered about politics until it hits their wallet or affects their income.
 
I didn't vote for the main 3 parties. It's now gone beyond voting for my least favourite now and it's time people stepped out and did the same rather than not voting at all.

In a very short space of time the main 3 parties have all been in Government and they are all as **** as each other.

I no longer fear letting in my most hated party because there is nothing between them, I only hope by using my vote gradually more people see that the minority parties of the past actually have a chance and break the 3 party system.
 
Labour really are worse than the Tories or LibDems. Labour are really, really bad. Tories and LibDems are just really bad.

The LibDems need to split up, the Tories need to split up and Labour need to change their name to the SDP. We need a referendum on the EU so that UKIP can go too.

We can then have a Christian Democrat party that the right wing authoritarians can vote for, half the Tories and half of UKIP can go there. We can then have a Liberal party, half the Tories, and half of UKIP and half of the LibDems can go there. The SDP can absorb what's left of the other half of the LibDems.

We then have a 3 party system where the blue team is right wing and authoritarian, the yellow team is slight ring wing and liberal, and the red team is left wing and centrist.

We can then all vote Liberal and have a progressive, free market, liberal country with 21st century thinking.
 
RomanNose said:
Good luck with that, we don't even have a slightly liberal party now so that's pushing it.
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I know... but I think that's why a lot of people feel they don't have anyone to vote for.

LibDems are a mishmash of two failed parties, full of people who should be in labour but couldn't stand being small fish in a big pond.

Tories have liberals and authoritarians in the mix, and are now really just a shade from centre, except where the lobbies tell them what to do.

Labour are now a social democrat party, socialism is long behind them and they're about the most cohesive of the three parties. They do have their nutter socialists in there, but for the most part they're all social democrats.

A liberal party would represent some quite popular views....

Free market. Anti-drug control. Anti-foreign meddling. Socially liberal. More propensity for science led than headline led policy. Pro-personal freedom.
 
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