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The Green Party Not Seen As A Major Party By OFCOM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30727083
Even though I am a member of the Lib Dems, I think this is unfair because this could be used to exclude some parties from the TV debates. However, OFCOM's (and the BBC's) mind could be changed because they have put the proposals out for consultation.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/major-parties-15/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/have_your_say/peb_criteria
Even though I am a member of the Lib Dems, I think this is unfair because this could be used to exclude some parties from the TV debates. However, OFCOM's (and the BBC's) mind could be changed because they have put the proposals out for consultation.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/major-parties-15/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/have_your_say/peb_criteria
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UKIP aren't seen as a major party, yet they have twice as many MPs' as the greens, plus at the last general election, UKIP had 919,471 votes compare to the greens who had 265,243 votes.
you can't be deemed a major party on those figures. unfair, i know, but tough luck. if the greens want to be a major party, they need to up their game in convincing more of the electorate to vote for them.
This is proof if any was needed that the election is a rigged marketing exercise and the true winners are the ones with the most money, and democracy is a thing of the past.
Which is a bit difficult if you have the disadvantage of being deemed a "minor party" and thus don't get the same exposure as other parties!
ukip got more media exposure, so they are bound to get more votes
ukip get more media exposure because immigration is a hot topic. if the green party want to be seen as a major party, then they need to get their message out there by giving their comments / reactions to the immigration debate, and then inserting into the conversation, their policy / policies.
And very likely the party with the third highest total of MPs after the GE
They won't, because their loopy immigration policy is a vote loser.
Of course with Labour likely to leak votes to the Greens, it's very much in Cameron's interests that the Greens are in.
Their immigration policy is not that different from the main three, and people wouldn't expect them to be the sole party in govt anyway.
Looks like Cameron is using this as a way out. Never mind how about a Ed vs Nigel debate? Time to educate and inform the working class still willing to vote Labour.
The so called party of the NHS eh?
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They all should be there, so the voters can make up their own minds. I don't like quangos, media, or politicians deciding who we hear from in the debates.
If Cameron has to suffer UKIP, Labour should have to put up with the Greens attacking their polices.
He would be attacked from the left from Labour and the Lib Dems (I can see both leaders agreeing on some issues during a debate, remember Brown's "I agree with Nick" moments during the debates) and also attacked from the right by UKIP.
With the Greens in a debate they would attack Labour and some of the other parties.
and what's their remit to do such things exactly?
Regulate broadcasting? Greens are sulking because they don't get their 2 partly political broadcasts, which is the bit Ofcom regulates. Whichever leaders are brave (or foolish enough) to end up on the Bbc show is up to them and the Bbc Trust.
The BNP is a party full of racist thugs and bigots and their supporters are racist bigots.
Yet they got 300,000 more votes than the Greens , just because you don't like their policies doesn't mean other people shouldn't , personally I would like to see Labour banned from ever having a seat but it ain't going to happen
That's the trouble with democracy. It's meant to represent the will of the people, no matter how repellent you find those people, or their political beliefs.
I'm a bit disappointed by this ruling and the Greens ought to put in an appeal and make sure that all MPs, peers, MEPs, assembly members and councillors are totalled up from all three of the UK's Green parties, i.e. England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
That said, their case is weaker than that of UKIP and it depends on where you draw the line. If it were me, I'd say that the Conservatives, Labour, UKIP, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party, Ulster's Democratic Unionist Party and the Greens have significant influence on British politics.
Yeh and yet 100's of former BNP members were and are STILL allowed to join the Labour party......