The rise of the Far-Right after the riots
I wish we could ignore that petition. You know which one. The one that would have innocent people thrown out into the street because of what someone in their family might have done. I wish we could ignore the fact that Nick Griffin has been gaining thousands of Twitter followers (including 2000 in just one day). [...]
Small parties, but not extremists, benefit from AV
A guest post by Rupert Read. As a Green Party activist, I am passionate about changing our world for the better, and changing it soon. That’s the first reason why I support AV: because it enables political systems to change more rapidly than does FPTP. FPTP is a ‘conservative’ system designed to make it hard [...]
UKIP and the Culture War
I was surprised to find that Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP MEP for Yorks and Humber had been running his re-election campaign on the basis of climate change denial. This seemed odd to me. I thought that UKIP were a party promoting withdrawal from the EU. But then you should never judge a party by its [...]