Contrary to the ridiculous claims of the ridiculous No campaign, the BNP wants a No vote, since it recognises that its candidates would all be eliminated in the first round and that its voters would all have expressed no second preference. AV would be the end of the BNP, even more quickly than anything other than First Past The Post would be the end of the Lib Dems.
Following electoral reform, at least one, and possibly both, of a social democratic, socially conservative, patriotic party and a rural-based (and therefore very open to State action), socially conservative, patriotic party would always be in government at any given time. At the very least, no Leader of the Labour Party could ever hope to become or remain Prime Minister without the support of a possibly small but certainly permanent body of MPs from the first of those parties, nor could any Leader of the Conservative Party ever hope to become or remain Prime Minister without the support of a possibly small but certainly permanent body of MPs from the second.
Vote Yes. For a start.
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A complete fantasy. Where's you evidence?
ReplyDeleteOne 'party' of the kind you suggest could not convince the Electoral Commission of its viability being well below twelve people in number. So why should another similar body benefit from electoral reform?
You have never been to Britain, have you? Islington or Notting Hill, yes. But not Britain.
ReplyDeleteNor do you understand what electoral reform would entail. But good to see the Blairites desperate to save both the BNP and the Lib Dems.
I'm not a Blairite, baby Iraqi translators should be a protected species.
ReplyDeleteYou did not answer my question: "where's you evidence?" A ratio of one representative to one elector is rather Borgesian don't you think?
You'll have your answer in the event of a Yes vote. No wonder that you are so desperate to prevent one. Like the BNP, in fact.
ReplyDelete"The Alternative To The BNP" is a party in your image! Now which political philosophy depends on a singular, charismatic leader?
ReplyDeleteI was not aware this blog has millions of readers, but it is illuminating that you are now assuming that it does.
Bless.
ReplyDeleteGood night.
The answer to Oscar's question is, "Blairism".
ReplyDeleteThat is not a political philosophy. If anything, it is the very antithesis of such.
ReplyDeleteDavid Lindsay is Guthrie Featherstone: "either a left-wing member of a right-wing party, or a right-wing member of a left-wing party – for the life of me, I can't now remember which."
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