Toys out of the pram
I’ve been browsing the lists for the London Assembly elections. These have been largely swamped from the public eye by the personality driven Mayoral contest happening alongside it. Everyone except Labour and the Tories suffers from this - they’re the only ones likely to win the mayoral seat. All the others need to win seats in the Assembly if they’re to have any influence at all.
My purpose with this post was slightly more frivolous, though. The crackpot count in the Assembly elections is astonishing. Even the ones we’re used to have gone into overdrive here. The splits in the far-right and far-left are pulling against each other really quite entertainingly:
- Respect (Galloway Wing) and Left List (which is a front for Respect, which is a front for the SWP) are running against each other.
- The BNP and the NF are running against each other in certain constituencies.
- Free England and the English Democrats are running against each other, despite both calling for an English parliament, withdrawal from the EU and essentially running on the same platform
- UKIP and One London (who split from Veritas who split from UKIP) are running against each other, despite saying virtually the same thing and sharing a simila mindset with the English Democrat crowd.
- The Communists are running under the entertainingly pseudonymmic “Unity for Peace and Socialism.”
Watching extremist groups who essentially think exactly the same thing as the other campaign against each other will be entertaining. You’d think they’d learn to work together with people they agreed with?
Why do those who most need unity suffer most from disunity?
Splinter groups aside, the parties you list all have one thing in common: I hope they lose their deposit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE