Britain has FPTP system now!bThe expected SNP result is due to the FPTP system.
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Britain has FPTP system now!bThe expected SNP result is due to the FPTP system.
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You mean you're going to vote for a party which represents your views perfectly? If so, you're lucky!
In the last election I couldn't decide between Conservative and Lib Dem for ages. I eventually went Lib Dem but strangely I think the coalition government have ultimately represented my views better than any single party government would have. To me they have proved coalitions can work.
What the Tories say vs what they mean:
To be fair, the others are just as bad and will say just about anything to get elected.
Russell Brand is good at getting sex and 12/13 years ago he took drugs these alone are enough to put him well beyond the pale to hyper conservatives.
Yup they after all were the idiots who tried to go all out Chicago School along with iirc Chile both countries economies were wrecked by the experiment.
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They did a bit about that graph and the story behind it on cnbc this morning and surprisingly they were quite hard on the tories and osbourne in particular.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2015-32487471
Debate about defence between Lib/Lab/Con/Green/SNP.
No UKIP, despite having more support than the Greens, and defence being a key differentiating UKIP policy.
Debate about defence between Lib/Lab/Con/Green/SNP.
No UKIP, despite having more support than the Greens, and defence being a key differentiating UKIP policy.
As I've said throughout the cycle UKIP are getting a poor deal from the vested interests in media and the other parties, I think UKIP are ridiculous and have no truck with their views or policies but still think they should be treated fairly.
Is it?
I can see the argument that UKIP are polling ahead of the LibDems, Greens, etc so should be given more attention.
But on the flipside, giving more media attention to a party because they are expected to do well in this election, due mainly to the fact they have been given an abnormally high amount of media attention since the last election seems more like perpetuating a mistake. UKIPs track record is ****, they shouldn't get more and more attention just because they have been given more attention than they deserved and it snowballed.
If the LibDems or the Greens had been given UKIPs attention over the past couple of years then they would probably be doing as well if not better in the polls.
Having said that, UKIPs attention seeking has been first class, buying your first MP mid-term was a stroke of genius and the publicity more than paid for the stunt.
Interesting, I just looked on their website but couldn't find anything in the headlines.
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I'm just arguing that they should have been on the debate about defence along with the greens, seeing as they have polled higher than them for at least a decade.
The Greens would have had a lot more success years ago if they had the clarity of message that UKIP has. Eco-marxism is a lot harder to explain than "small govnerment, no EU".
It doesn't help that the greens don't even have a consistent UK wide message, with different parties in England, Wales and Scotland, and that they are somehow also meant to be representitive of green paries in other EU countries, which even politicially astute voters know next to nothing about.
When the greens got a load of media attention at the start of the year their polling went form 5 to 8%, now they are back down to 5% with zero media interest.
The UKIP are getting far more media attention than they deserve but the UKIP love it because it bolsters their polling figures.
The UKIP's message is certainly not "small government" though, quite the contrary looking at their manifesto. Bigger defense, Bigger police, bigger, prison population, More border control, moreimigration control - they are all traits of bigger givernments, not smaller.
I think you are confused with what the UKIP was originally developed as and what it stands for now.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-alan-sked-party-become-frankensteins-monster
And it's only going to get better, as the more MP's they get the more coverage they're going to get, it'll be a upwards cycle. Were as the Greens has screwed up Briton and is likely to lose their one seat to Labour
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You may have noticed that even MPs do not agree with their party's stand on certain issues.
I think that's laughable trash reporting, even at worst case they'll get a handful, including Farage
There was a video where Farage directly answered that question, i'll see if i can find it again.
Huh? Why would i get permabanned for thinking they get a minimum of 5?
Or is that some kind of wishful thinking to shut me up? Keep dreaming
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