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The Throwback Button

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This was quite political in its day, until we realised we haven’t moved on as far as we would like to think

It’s tempting, here, to make a joke about it being a new voting system where you can vote for one of our new parties that wants to return to better times. There are currently  393 parties registered with the Electoral Commission in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. These include 15 parties with MPs in Parliament. Twelve of them have eight members or less, with five of them having only one MP. As you go down through the levels we eventually arrive at the parties that are registered but have no members in any elected position.

These include Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (Opposing Capitalism and Stalinism), British First Party (against non-white immigration, abortion, communism, foreign aid and homosexuality) and the Cornish Nationalist Party, which wants Cornish devolution and pan-Celtism.

These are just three of our many choices. It surprises me that there are actually 79 such parties, the final two being the Yorkshire Party and the Yoruba Party.

It’s quite a range of lunacy and lost causes.

However, that wasn’t the road I meant to take. I was going to point out that I just had a tour through some other posts I published on this day in different years – ones about Julia’s neck injury and me being in hospital. Neither were things I really wanted to revisit, so I stopped reading.

There is a reblog button, which tempted me, but pressing it doesn’t seem to reblog anything, so it’s not the easy way of catching up I though it might be. I will try it again later and see if it saves me writing another post, as I am close to missing deadlines now.

 

A Perplexing Proliferation of Popular Political Parties

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The football rumbles on. I tend to ignore most of it, but note that wales didn’t do quite as well as their hype suggested, and England, as usual, have made things a little more difficult for themselves. If Wales beat us by 4 goals when we play on Tuesday. It’s unlikely that Wales will beat us by 4 goals, but in football you never know . . .

Meanwhile, the Arab world seems to be getting a little fed up (though I base this on reading reports of reports) with being lectured on how to conduct themselves. Looks like I was very timely in my discussion of such things.

I’m actually quite irritated this week, because I’ve been drawn into discussing sport and politics. There ahs been so much nonsense hanging round the subject I couldn’t stop myself saying something, despite the fact we already have too many people offering opinions. Just because I am irritated by something doesn’t men I have anything to offer. That’s why I tend to stay away from serious subjects. Bloggers should stick to subjects like baking, bicycling and bears and leave politics to the lesser writers.

Which brings us to American Politics. I hear that Kanye West is running for President. I know very little about him but won’t rule anything out after watching events of previous years. I have just been looking at the list of American political parties. I honestly thought you only had two, with the occasional egomaniac standing as a independent. I now find there are actually loads, but they never get on the news.

US Taxpayers Party, People Over Politics Party, Independent Conservative Democratic Party, Green Party, Independence Party, Veterans Party of America Party, American Independent Conservative Party, Conservative Party, Libertarian Party, Peace and Freedom Party, American Independent Party, American People’s Freedom Party, Concerned Citizens Party of Connecticut, Moderate Party, Independent American Party, Resource Party, New Alliance Party.

Forgive me if I say that I am put in mind of the People’s Front of Judea sketch.

However, if you look at a list of British parties we have 11 parties represented in the House of Commons with four in other UK legislatures and another 124 represented in local government, including Tunbridge Wells Alliance, Poole Local Group and Poole People Party. Could you make it up? Probably, but I didn’t need to, I just needed Wikipedia and an enquiring mind.

Anyway, if you’ll excuse me, I have noticed that there is room for People’s Poole Party, and I may be just the charismatic leader they are looking for . . .

The header picture is a metaphor, with pigs and snouts and troughs, though it does seem unfair to the pigs. The lower picture shows wasps. I like wasps and lured them to the table (in August 2015, which now seems a long time ago) by smearing jam on the table.

Wasps

And in answer to the question I am sure is in your minds, yes, I could have worked People and Poole into the title, but it seemed a bit long.