Did I say England had "two identical political parties"?
Make that three.
Our party system for the last few decades has been an absurdity.
The Social Democratic Party was founded because the Labour party was too socialist.
This was quite a valid, necesssary and sensible development.
It then formed an alliance with the Liberal party because of the practicalities of the undemocratic electoral system that England still has.
The SDP still had a role to play and still would have.
But for some reason it eventually merged with the Liberal Party.
Later on Tony Blair destroyed the Labour Party because it was left-wing.
He changed the Labour Party into the USDemocratPartyofEngland, even though it is effectively not much different to the USRepublicanPartyofEngland as well.
This left England with no left-wing party so the Liberal Party is the most left-wing party.
I say "is". I'm not so sure anymore.
They are shamlessly ditching some of their left-wing policies in the attempt to attract more support at a time when support for all parties is not surprisingly dwindling.
And all of the above was done with no debate, public or otherwise, and no analysis.
Make that three.
Our party system for the last few decades has been an absurdity.
The Social Democratic Party was founded because the Labour party was too socialist.
This was quite a valid, necesssary and sensible development.
It then formed an alliance with the Liberal party because of the practicalities of the undemocratic electoral system that England still has.
The SDP still had a role to play and still would have.
But for some reason it eventually merged with the Liberal Party.
Later on Tony Blair destroyed the Labour Party because it was left-wing.
He changed the Labour Party into the USDemocratPartyofEngland, even though it is effectively not much different to the USRepublicanPartyofEngland as well.
This left England with no left-wing party so the Liberal Party is the most left-wing party.
I say "is". I'm not so sure anymore.
They are shamlessly ditching some of their left-wing policies in the attempt to attract more support at a time when support for all parties is not surprisingly dwindling.
And all of the above was done with no debate, public or otherwise, and no analysis.