fringe parties

So, we're not talking about this sort of fringe party then?

trust you boxer lol.



is it a he, a she or a he/she?

I like parties

I dunno.. But either way, it's fringe, and ready to party!!!

Out of that lot, the only one I would vote for would be the Green Party. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to vote anyway, it depends on whether I'm sleeping on someone's couch when election rolls around. Either that, or I'll just be moving into a new room or flat.

The only reason why other parties aren't as well established as the "big three" is because no one ever thinks to vote for them. The election is always a two horse race. If I had a ?1 for every time people have said they won't vote for the lib dems because no one ever does, I'd probably be a millionaire! So it's the public's fault that we never get anyone decent in government

Wondering who the heck is going to vote for the respect party?

https://www.therespectparty.net/

The BNP are vile, UKIP not much better and I don't know a great deal about the Respect party. Out of those listed I would vote for the Green Party, my parents do every election.

Technically though, I would still go for the Lib Dems as they are operating on the fringe, albeit only just.

I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with FPTP voting as it stands, so I don't see the point in changing it.

In a one-person-one-vote system a fringe vote is wasted. And yet, in such a system, fringe parties are more likely to affect in a more unstable way: the small number of votes lost to fringe parties affects the outcome of elections but does not actually result in them being elected. All that happens is that who wins out of mainstream parties is disproportionately affected. We should have a scoring system, not a single vote for each person; that would be more representative.

Until then, I'm not going to vote for a fringe group, especially not one of dismal array of travelling circuses that call themselves political parties in the UK. I doubt many other people will, either; the mainstream centrist parties get all the votes, partly because of voter loyalty, the cautious nature of the electorate, funding and organisation, and genuine representativeness since they don't just seem to focus on a single issue, like the other parties:

Greens: Environment

BNP: Immigration

UKIP: The EU

Respect: Who the f*** even knows?

English Nationalists: England

I do like Respect, though, don't get me wrong. They're just nobodies.