| Ka-pi96 said: I'm not sure UKIP actually had any impact though. They got what... 1 seat in their entire existence? I think the EU referendum was more as a way of the Conservatives making them look a more attractive prospect than Labour by giving people a vote on it, than necessarily to do with UKIP. Voting directly for issues simply wouldn't be feasible. There's just too many issues and let's be honest most people only really care about the major ones, so all the smaller issues would have ridiculously low turnout and just be a waste of time really. Definitely agree that FPTP is a bad system though. Not only is it bad for smaller parties, but it literally means some people's votes are more important than others, and the parties know this and use it to target those voters more than others. Yay for discrimination! And no, don't really care about the economy. Bankers and stockbrokers can bitch about it all they want, doesn't mean fuck all to me though. From what I saw UK during recession was no different at all to UK before recession. |
They got 12% of the vote in 2015 (when they got that seat) making them the 3rd most popular party. They were gobbling up Conservative votes. The Tories had to promise a referendum if they wanted to win.
I guess so. 1 billion referendums would be annoying, though the alternative would be what we have today. And it could be easily reversed if people get tired.
