Democratic Dialogue, pt1: Small Parties for Big Issues

[ubermammal]

I heard recently - I can't find a source, sorry, so it might be hearsay - about a representative of UKIP who got asked about some aspect of domestic policy or something. He said he didn't know. People asked why he didn't know, being as he was a representative of his party and the question wasn't obscure, and he said something like, "I don't care

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[xandratheblue]

Whilst avoiding your inconsistent statement that small parties like the BNP and Respect don't have personalities and media control, I will bring you to task on your mildly offensive assumption that the Green party are joke party like the BNP and UKIP, but as it seems you need to return to the google-fu dojo, here is The Green Party's immigration Policy, and the nearest thing I could find within thirty seconds of googling for The BNP's Culture policy.

I think you should consider the fact that Respect, very much a one issue party, moreso than the one's you've noted above, have one seat in parliament. And that there are also 9 independents. Have some Sauce. Whilst this is by no means a majority, one would assume that they got there by hammering one or more points home that really meant something to the people in that constituency which the other parties weren't offering - a decent example of how the market works in itself, but to say sometimes a protest vote, or one big issue is enough to get people to vote against the mainstream, as

[ubermammal]

> Whilst avoiding your inconsistent statement that small parties like the BNP and Respect don't have personalities and media control,

They don't have personalities in a way that contributes substantially to people voting for them. Most people who vote BNP do so because they agree with the policies, not because they "rather like that Griffin fellow."

If they've got media control in any substantial sense, then why don't we see them on the front pages of the newspapers as often as the Big Two?

> I will bring you to task on your mildly offensive assumption that the Green party are joke party like the BNP and UKIP,

I didn't imply - nor do I think - that any of them are joke parties. I did imply that they're all parties with an agenda that is built around a single issue, which they are. I'm sorry that my naming the Greens in the same paragraph as the BNP offends you, but they were the first single-issue parties that sprung to mind (except UKIP but I didn't want to repeat myself

[xandratheblue]

> Whilst avoiding your inconsistent statement that small parties like the BNP and Respect don't have personalities and media control

[xandratheblue]

> I think you should consider the fact that Respect, very much a one issue party, moreso than the one's you've noted above, have one seat in parliament. And that there are also 9 independents