Weird and (not so) wonderful parties

[thegreatsoprendo]

Taking some time to survey my ballot paper this morning, I was struck by the array of half baked political parties vying for your X in the box.

One was the 'Alliance of Green Socialists', which I've never heard of, but struck me as the party I'd be least likely to ever vote for. There was also a socialist party which I can't remember the exact name of, but who had comically (and perhaps ingeniously) managed to include the words "down with the warmongers" into their party name!

I'd be interested to hear of any weird and wonderful parties standin in your area...

[dick dastardly]

In Cardiff we've got 'Mr Beanie', a guy who runs around in a skin tight gold and orange superman outfit complete with cape! We've also got the 'Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket'. I don't have a clue what any of their policies are and I probably don't want to.

[ge2]

Max power party, there's a bit about it here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4494439.stm

"Prison sentences for uninsured drivers"

[sweepingGeneralisation]
I wonder what percentage of the Max Power readership drive about in cars with undisclosed modifications
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>> Edited by ge2 on Thursday 5th May 09:03

>> Edited by ge2 on Thursday 5th May 09:04

[wanty1974]

In Pontypridd in 1997 we had the following selection -

New Labour
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Green
UKIP
Plaid Cymru
Forward Wales
Communist
Socialist Labour Party (seat candidate - Arthur Scargil)

This year looks lame in comparison!

[robdickinson]

We get the choice of the mian 3, thats it. oh and labour always gets over 70% so whats the point.

[mcecm]

In Edinburgh East we have someone from the "Death, Dungeons & Taxes" party. Absolutely no idea what they stand for but they sound like a fun bunch

[HiRich]

Last time around, Saatchi & Saatchi put up the Ginger Crab (a bloke in a ginger crab suit) in Kensington & Chelsea (Portillo's seat), on behalf of Jammy Dodgers.

We got a wonderful thank you email from him afterwards, with the immortal line "I gave out 27 videos of my manifesto and got 27 votes. If I could just have afforded another 3,000 videos..."