I found out who the guy behind Gordon with the upraised fist was.

http://landlesspeasants.org

Best. Party. Ever.

thats what we should have had then...

I can see the advantages of it however, it gives the chance to pressure parties (see above) to get in. BNP were backing the Liberal Democrats just to get this reform and to impact the political system. I personally wouldn't want to be represented by 12 BNP and 6 Green....

Helloooo Phinch... The Liberal Democrats are FAR more capable of running the country.

There is far more to running a country than experience. Everyone has to be elected for a first time... Did George Washington run the USA poorly? Experience is not an issue when comparing an able party to an unable party. BNP are unable, the Liberal democrats are. A simplified analogy would be if I were to challenge a person with no hands to a plate spinning contest. I would win every time for the fact that I am able to spin plates and they are not, even though we are both equally as experienced.

Just to pre-empt the inevitable rebuttal of "The BNP are just as competent as the Liberal Democrats", they are not. The BNP have put absolutely zero thought into their policies outside of "Kick the Immigrants out!". The Liberal Democrats on the other hand have meticulously planned all their policies; their policies are serious and well thought out.

What's the BNP economic policy? Cut trading except for with the family ties (Canada and Australia essentially), yeah good luck with that when you're facing a deficit capable of crippling the UK.

What is the Liberal democrats economic policy? Consult with businesses for regulation repeal requests, rebalance the tax system and cut corporate loopholes, cut public spending, promote the UK as a centre for industry worldwide.

Is the Lib Dem economic policy perfect? No. Is it better than the BNP's idea of becoming isolationist whilst we are in so much debt? Yes, by miles. And policy after policy the Liberal Democrats are more serious and have planned them much better than the BNP.

The Liberal Democrats are far more capable of running the country than the BNP.

Also, the Liberal Democrats have been in the political game for A LOT longer than the BNP, their experience in politics is far greater as they are a merger of what was the Social Democratic party and the the liberal party. Their root extend back into the 17th century... The BNP started in the early 80's.

And if you want to go for experience anyway, the Lib Dems have had considerable amounts more experience of representing constituencies, something that pays off for actually understanding and governing the country.

then don't vote for them, it would force the main parties to tackle the issues that make those parties popular.

It would have actually been different though because there would have been less tatical voting. I think lib dems would have done better and the "other" parties. 

well, thats the choice, either you ignore the small parties or you tackle why people are voting for them, I guess it would depend on there popularity, so yes, based on that result, they wouldnt have enough power for the main parties to be too concerned

Wow....Conservative support is massive in England and brought down by Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Is it because Labour get the Scots free University places?

same as with the national result, I think we should have PR, if you look at the vote share, a co-allition between the Conservatives and Lib Dems or Labour and the Lib Dems would be more democratic and representative of the public will. (only a co-allition would represent 50% of the electorate)

lol i love how LD got 2/3 the votes of the consvervatives and 6/7 that of labour in england, yet have just over than 1/5 of labours seats and under 1/7 of tory seats. Good old british democracy XD