Comments on: The UK gets a new political party!

By: Yusuf Smith

Yusuf Smith — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:51:34 +0000

Sorry for the multi-TB. I kept getting told that the TB attempt had timed out, which is why I kept sending it, until I remembered that putting comments here takes a long time as well.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:38:24 +0000

Veritas’s policies are essentially what you get some time around closing time on Thursday night. That reminds me of something. My memory is hazy on this, but I believe that in the immediate aftermath of the fall of communism, some group calling themselves the “Polish Beer Lovers Party” won a sizeable chunk of seats in the new Polish legislature. Perhaps this Veritas has more electoral potential than you think.

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:47:18 +0000

I saw George Galloway wandering around Oxford last week. Tiny man. Who’d have thought?

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:20:17 +0000

Killroy-”Splitter”-Silk and his hilarious Popular Xenophobic People’s Front of Judea, notwithstanding, I vote every time they send me a voting card. My Will to Democracy is strong! (My acquaintance with the issues, however, is usually desultory, although I read two (2) whole manifestoes for the Yoorpeans.)

By: John Isbell

John Isbell — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:22:34 +0000

As long as the Raving Monster Loony Party is still up and kicking.

By: john b

john b — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:43:14 +0000

Working up Finchley Road (Hampstead & Highgate, 1992 Lab gain from Con, but living in Finsbury Park (Islington North, where the Greens and the Tories are fighting for third place...)

By: MyShred

MyShred — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 04:26:15 +0000

Lol, yeah. Heh.

By: Giles

Giles — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:32:05 +0000

Good post – as you say, the main role of local elections is to give the nutters a chance to vent their spleen without hurting anyone. Still you missed the obvious “in vino Veritas” gag. Veritas’s policies are essentially what you get some time around closing time on Thursday night.

By: Cryptic Ned

Cryptic Ned — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:00:29 +0000

I thought Fred Basset was a US comic strip. It’s way better than Marmaduke, anyway.

By: jam

jam — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:21:49 +0000

What really worries me about this post is I left England 35 years ago and Fred Basset is still going.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:25:57 +0000

By the way, CT readers, John “only 15 votes in the Fistful of Euros blog awards” does not exactly come with clean hands to the issue of tactical voting in general, or abstention by people who actually like his blog but couldn’t be bothered to vote for it in particular.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:18:14 +0000

Update duly posted. I thought you were up the Finchley Road? That’s not exactly safe Labour territory; it’s pure 1997 gain, isn’t it?

By: john b

john b — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:44:21 +0000

What’re your turnout predictions for this general election? I’m torn between “low because all the players are rubbish”, in which case the maniac strategy stands a chance of success, and “high because everyone hates each other so much”, in which case sanity may prevail. BTW, I hope you’re living in a they-weigh-the-Labour-vote constituency like mine, otherwise the threat to vote Tory just isn’t funny…