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g jones · 09-07-2006, 13:11

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill

As Gayle said a bunch of independents working together constitutes both an arrangement and a compromise, in other words a political manifesto. Two party politics provides clear decision makers and clear opposition and is transaparent. How do you know a bunch of independents aren't double dealing and horse trading things you never wanted to vote for?

Look in Hyndburn at the Independents who have stood. Adrian Shurmer, hard right and obsessive about roads and humps. Jack Cooper, genuine socialist and considerably left of the current centre. Matthew Hartley, anti-BNP demonstrator and Socialist Worker and now Nick Collingridge, conservative, cautioned for singing a racist song.

Just think of the cost in time and resources getting those 4 to agree to policies and them sticking together through it to make them work. Political parties are simply a way of aggregating like minded people in order that there can be some progress and that the public are more aware of what thier vote means.

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g jones Senior Member+ Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,125 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 732	Re: Keep Party Politics Out Of Government It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill As Gayle said a bunch of independents working together constitutes both an arrangement and a compromise, in other words a political manifesto. Two party politics provides clear decision makers and clear opposition and is transaparent. How do you know a bunch of independents aren't double dealing and horse trading things you never wanted to vote for? Look in Hyndburn at the Independents who have stood. Adrian Shurmer, hard right and obsessive about roads and humps. Jack Cooper, genuine socialist and considerably left of the current centre. Matthew Hartley, anti-BNP demonstrator and Socialist Worker and now Nick Collingridge, conservative, cautioned for singing a racist song. Just think of the cost in time and resources getting those 4 to agree to policies and them sticking together through it to make them work. Political parties are simply a way of aggregating like minded people in order that there can be some progress and that the public are more aware of what thier vote means. Last edited by g jones; 09-07-2006 at 13:14.