The second was by an Xer called Publius. With the first, there really can be conflicting realities the moment you plan to be an alternative party ... I'm not Nigel's greatest fan but what June says above is probably so ... he's the flagship ... but at the same time, whilst the council election results were good in a few areas, with wins over Labour, there's the old issue of "close but commendable" second in other, usually Tory seats of power.
With the other, Johnson has shown himself to be distinctly iffy on important matters ... not necessarily this one, as it's "sources said" again ... plus there are reports that hardline Hegseth, after talking to Senators one on one, has softened his stance on certain issues such as women on the front line, plus LBGwhatever "rights" ... which is clearly against the MAGA platform they were elected on.
Broadening this ... if your personal manifesto on a dozen issues is then broken into subdivisions of issues within issues ... what chance that if every voter were tasked on his/her stance on every sub-issue, that there'd be uniform agreement across the range ... even between two people?
So how can a Party put out a manifesto, have a platform it runs on, when that involves compromising your stance on various important matters? It seems to me to bring in two other things ... proportional representation, plus some sort of qualification to vote based on merit.
Which is, of course, fraught. Plus the instability of minority coalition govts is a known-known ... as distinct from Starmer having a massive majority with from 20 to 25% of the eligible national vote?
I see no solutions here, only least bad compromises.
Yesterday someone put a leaflet through my door from the Homeland Party.
ReplyDeleteThis is a new one for me. They have a website which seems to indicate that the party is established on the same basis as the Reform Party; ie it's a company.
Does anyone know any more about this party? Is it local to me or is it national?