On January 22, the sponsors of the upcoming British election debates said they will invite seven parties into two of those debates. See this story. The Green Party had been fighting this battle for several months, and now it appears victorious.
On January 22, the sponsors of the upcoming British election debates said they will invite seven parties into two of those debates. See this story. The Green Party had been fighting this battle for several months, and now it appears victorious.
HMMM. A few seconds for each robot hack to say he/she wants more or less STATISM in the super-statist UK regime —
NOT having a written constitution
i.e. the 1066 DARK AGE regime of oligarchs and monarchs.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
I wonder how Sinn Fein failed to make the cut? They won more seats than Plaid Cymru.
….and we can’t even make room in just one debate for the Libertarian Party?
The Democratic Unionist Party won even more seats in Northern Ireland than Sinn Fein, and they actually participate in Parliament, unlike Sinn Fein, but they’re not in the debates either.
If they were going to have debates involving the Northern Ireland parties, I would think that those should involve only the Northern Ireland parties and not the parties from Great Britain, because the Great Britain parties usually don’t run in Northern Ireland nor vice versa. Voters in NI face an almost completely different set of parties than voters in GB.
The British debates will have an impact on debate policy in the United States. With Gary Johnson and Jill Stein planning to file a lawsuit over presidential debates in February or March, and with the leaders of the old Americans Elect movement pushing the Federal Election Commission for a revision of the debate rules, what happens in Britain will help the ongoing struggle.
SNP don’t run outside of Scotland and Plaid Cymru don’t run outside of Wales. Further, there are three separate Green Parties.
UKIP and the Conservatives have had candidates in Northern Ireland.
They should hold separate debates for each of the three smaller countries, and each of the English regions. Any party that was contesting a majority of the seats in an area could participate, but the debater must be a candidate for the area.