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Erlend On July 29, 2009

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Troms?, Norway
#1New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 15:37:09
The U.S. has, for quite some time, only had two major political parties with enough support to rule the country. In Norway we have about ten parties in Parliament at all times, and it looks like the future governments will be composed of representatives from about three different parties.

What is it like where you live (in many cases Canada and Australia )? What system do you think works better?
markfox01 On October 23, 2021
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Welshman in Brum.., United Kin
#2New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 15:45:32
mmmmmm... god question, the UK probably designed the government thing a couple of hundred years ago..(wiliam pitt?? i think the dude was) the system is supposed to represent the people who in liamans terms talk the right talk.. what your talking about is a kinda dictatorship? i think??? (aint got a degree in politics)
bendover On November 25, 2007

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Muff, Ireland
#3New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 15:51:31
In Northern Ireland there are several parties.

On the Nationalist side there is Sinn Fein which is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party.

On the Unionist side the is the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party.

Then in the middle there are a number of parties like the Womans Coalition, The Alliance Party, and then the minority parties take up the rear.

Politics is very polarised there with the two extreme parties the DUP, (Ian Paisley's though shalt not brigade), followed closely by Sinn Fein(Your lucky we've decommisioned our guns ye bastard)taking the top two positions.

However they don't sit in the parliament because there was underhand spying going on by Sinnn Fein so they all walked out of the Assembly. Now it transpires the spys were actually British double agents and not really Republicans at all.

From that little history of politics in Northern Ireland you can see why I moved out of the country all together and keep well out of politics there.
treebee On April 13, 2015
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London, United Kingdom
#4New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 15:53:08
In the UK its pretty much a 2 party system too. Conservative and Labour. We have the Liberal Party but then as soon as they get popular WHAM BAM another scandal about them.

I mean they are all corrupt as f*** anyways

I should get into politics
markfox01 On October 23, 2021
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Welshman in Brum.., United Kin
#5New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 15:54:20
ye irelands politics does give me a head ache..
markfox01 On October 23, 2021
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Welshman in Brum.., United Kin
#6New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 15:55:28
@treebee Said
In the UK its pretty much a 2 party system too. Conservative and Labour. We have the Liberal Party but then as soon as they get popular WHAM BAM another scandal about them.

I mean they are all corrupt as f*** anyways

I should get into politics


im seriously thinking of it.. but i'd rather be a spin doctor than an MP, there the ones with the real power!!
Erlend On July 29, 2009

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Troms?, Norway
#7New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 17:22:00
Anyone have an opinion on why exactly the UK and US are the countries with (some would say) less diversity in the political landscape?
treebee On April 13, 2015
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London, United Kingdom
#8New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 17:24:13
good point Erland, I hadnt actually thought about it until you said
sheepy On March 23, 2010

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#9New Post! Feb 08, 2006 @ 18:13:57
Well, UK politics is possibly more diverse than it looks.
The Labour party is (Or was) socialist. The UK though is possibly at the core anti-socialist, so Labour realised they had to imitate the Conservative party (Centre right) to have a chance at a sniff of power. Deep down though, Labour are still socialist, they just are keeping that side a bit on the quiet really.
Politics in the UK is possibly polarised by habit - someone's father voted Labour, so the son does - that sort of thing. Small parties come and go - but no-one seems to take them seriously, so they don't really last long.

There is a third party called the Liberal Democrats - much more to the left of Labour nowadays. They however tend to pick up votes as a protest party, and indeed, in order to win by-elections, change their publicity literature to look like the Conservatives in the south, and Labour in the north - people tend not to notice they are doing this Unsurprisingly, they are all for changing the system of electing politicians, which would - surprise surprise - cause a huge difference in the number of Liberal Democrat mp's elected (but of course, they say this isn't the reason they want to change it - yeah right )

Politicians - who needs them. In a way, it's scary that the people in power are "career politicians" - people who have always wanted to be in politics, and don't therefore have experience of the real lives of real people.
shaggyjebus On August 26, 2008

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Goodlettsville, Tennessee
#10New Post! Feb 09, 2006 @ 02:10:46
The American people don't want to think too hard. Hence, there are only two parties to choose from. Any more, and the majority of the population would get confused and get a headache.

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