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The 2010 General Election
Stop playing Scrooge Darling, we need tax cuts now
Government risks civil unrest over pensions
New Party sympathises with expenses backlash MPs
Miliband's carbon solution is to export employment during recession
New Party disappointed by CO2 advert adjudication delays
This year Christmas dinner will cost you £36million, if you are quick
IPPR plans would cause higher numbers to jump from UK Titanic
Stealth tax ‘shooting galleries’ creating killer roads
New Party slams 'perverse' lessons in domestic violence
UK needs to wake up and end this economic 'Greek tragedy'
New corruption figures highlight Kelly's Westminster failure
Queen's Speech a matter of the 'government's new clothes'
Labour's nuclear 'dithering' will have UK scrabbling in the dark, New Party leader tells nuclear heartland
YouTube debut for New Party following Politics Show appearance
Stop Westminster Council's bike rider robbery before it spreads nationwide
New Party calls for BBC to end its 'discrimination' of smaller political parties
New Party praises ASA for investigating 'sickening' carbon advert
Time to unburden 10 million low earners of income tax
'Orwellian' C02 advert prompts New Party call for withdrawal
Richard Vass' letter to the national press
Red Tape has left thousands across Britain jobless
Who are the real progressives?
Memories of '76
The reactionary left
The Democratic Imperative
Socialism for shoppers
Spivocracy in action
Precisely
The abdication of leadership
Rebuilding communities
The loser tendency
The United Nations: what moral authority?
How to banish cynicism
The Chancellor's iron grip - on power
British politics: Is it dead yet?

Sunday, May 31, 2009

The quest for a New Party

The latest opinion polls in the Times and the Sunday Telegraph amply demonstrate the damage that has been wrought upon the major parties by the recent scandals over parliamentary allowances and expenses. In one poll UKIP is predicted to outstrip Labour by three percentage points, driving the governing party into a humiliating third place. Another poll also has Labour in third place, this time behind the Liberal Democrats. In both cases parties other than the big three parties are, together, scoring more than 25& of the vote.

The political system is failing.and the people are demanding change. As yet, these demands are articulated only as massive public outrage against politicians generally. New parties are emerging, but as yet they have limited support and each are either single issue parties or have too narrow a focus to address the range of serious issues that face the country.

The question of the day is whether this popular uprising can be channelled constructively into a new political movement which addresses real needs but which nevertheless eschews the political extremes, and which stands up for the rights of people and not politicians. We await the European election results with interest.

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