| There has been a situation developing in UK | | | | campaign, which acts as a bias against new |
| politics over the last couple of decades, not of | | | | entrants to the race. Whatever the bias, it ought |
| any one individual's making, but a corollary of | | | | to be redressed at once. |
| disparate forces, which has undermined the | | | | We cannot call a state democratic which, come |
| principle of democratic choice; a kind of cross | | | | election time, has nothing to offer the electorate |
| fertilisation of party policies which has effectively | | | | except three pale washes of the same polticial |
| resulted in there being vitually nothing to choose, | | | | colour. Nobody wants to "waste a vote" by |
| bar some irrelevant detail regarding tax and | | | | casting it in favour of a no-hoper who doesn't |
| spend, between the three major parties. | | | | have a chance of success, so the only option is |
| So prevalent is this that there are times when we | | | | either to abstain or vote for one of the big three; |
| see Conservatives coming out with policies that | | | | either way, advantage goes to the status quo. |
| are more left wing than Labour, and Labour | | | | Imagine the furore in the west if an election in |
| issuing papers more right wing than any Tory | | | | Russia revolved around two or three communist |
| would dare. The Liberals meanwhile have their | | | | parties with no alternative. |
| moments when they swing somewhere to the | | | | One of the causes of this dire situation is that |
| left of one and others when they are to the right | | | | over the years the electorate has opted for a |
| of the other. | | | | "safe middle ground", and the parties, completely |
| In the good old days, we could clearly see who | | | | lacking ideology and likewise playing it safe, have |
| was on the side of the little guy and who was | | | | moved into this lucrative space. The problem |
| supporting big business. Now it's big business, or | | | | comes when the electorate realises that there is |
| more big business. There is no ideological | | | | no such thing as "safe middle ground." What they |
| alternative to the free market. All three major | | | | thought was safe was actually a disaster waiting |
| parties kow tow to the idol worship of easy | | | | to happen. Now they look around frantically for |
| regulation and unrestrained profitmaking. I suspect | | | | someone to get them out of the mess. and, |
| this has something to do with the amount of | | | | unfortunately, there is no one with the muscle to |
| money it costs to launch a major political | | | | do it. |