6 February 2010

Surely a "single issue party" is an impossibility?

Single issue parties cannot really be viable. This is obvious. Politics is not about single issues.

Though they are necessary perhaps, they are a symptom of the collapse of confidence in conventional politics.

For example "The Australian Sex Party" and the "Pirate Party" in Sweden seem concerned with single issues only. They are in a way what used to be called "Pressure Groups" rather than (what used to be) political parties.

They are possibly very necessary and very effective; but how could the Australian Sex Party actually run Australia?
Actually that may not be such a bad thing after all.... :)