UK Political Parties:The Church of the Militant Elvis and Citizens for Undead Rights

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  • sgreger1
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    • Mar 2009
    • 9451

    #1

    UK Political Parties:The Church of the Militant Elvis and Citizens for Undead Rights

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/p...10/8631815.stm


    In America we complain about only having two choices, and apparently in the UK they felt the same way, so they took all their crazies and broke them up into several differed parties, which include:

    The New Millennium Bean Party's "beanyfesto" wants:

    • Chewing gum to be collected from pavements and used to fill potholes in the road

    • Children who leave home should not be allowed to return until they are 40

    • Convicted drink drivers to have their cars painted bright orange for five years when they finish their ban and return to the wheel

    • Public officials who are convicted of abuse of office to have their pictures printed on toilet roll packaging.





    Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality Party, their "undeadly serious" campaign messages:

    Its manifesto, published on the party's website, includes:

    • Give the undead equal rights to the living

    • Make cemeteries more comfortable for their inhabitants

    • Implement a robust social integration programme for the undead, curing society of its prejudices

    • Increase the minimum statutory retirement age to beyond death

    • Permit marriages of the living and the undead





    The Monster Raving Loony Party:

    All socks to be sold in packs of 3 as a precaution against losing one

    • Make it illegal for superheroes to use their powers for evil

    • Ban all terrorists from having beards as they look scary

    • Change the English symbol of three lions to 3 badgers

    • School dinners must be regularly checked for radioactivity

    • Add the Loch Ness Monster to the endangered species list

    • Dedicated pogo stick lanes on routes to centres of work

    Also they campaign on: "joining Europe in a big way" - by inviting the other European countries to join the pound sterling and then making the entire UK a European offshore tax haven.
    He is also pledging a 99p coin to save on change



    The Church of the Militant Elvis and Bus-Pass Elvis Party:

    • Fancy a moat around your house to keep out randy footballers?

    • Bono for Pope

    • Turn public schools into pound shops

    • Save public lavatories from extinction

    • Fill in the potholes

    • All shook-up about dog-muck everywhere? Bring back the dog licence.




    The NOTA (None of the Above) Protest Vote:

    Anyone baffled by this array of pledges might want to try a party that cheerfully admits it "hasn't got any", because it is a protest vote.

    "By promising to deliver nothing, I'm the best man for the job I don't want."

    In the unlikely event of him getting in, his one policy would be to force a by-election within six months - in which he would not stand.



    Not quite radical enough?

    Movement for Active Democracy (MAD) Party:

    • would like to do away with the current system of government altogether.

    He would still have MPs discussing things, he explains, but if a large enough group of, say, 500,000 people decided they wanted to stop a certain government proposal, the issue would have go to a referendum and could then be halted whether the government liked it or not.

    "I have no manifesto," he says.

    "I am not telling you what you're going to get, I'm asking you what you want."
  • danielan
    Member
    • Apr 2010
    • 1514

    #2
    Honestly, they all sound at least as rationale as what we have here in the US...

    Plus the honesty is refreshing.

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    • sgreger1
      Member
      • Mar 2009
      • 9451

      #3
      I would rather vote for some of these parties than the dem/rep ones we have over here.

      "I am not telling you what you're going to get, I'm asking you what you want." <--- Theres a novel idea.

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      • PipenSnus
        Member
        • Apr 2010
        • 1038

        #4
        If you've been following the campaign news for the upcoming UK Parliamentary election on May 7, or even if you know the tiniest bit about current UK politics, you'll realize that the kooks mentioned above aren't much more silly than the mainstream parties. My British friends tell me that even hardcore Labour supporters hate Brown, and the Tories feel much the same about Cameron. No wonder why the LibDems had such a big surge in the polls -- it's a "none of the above" vote.

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        • Frosted
          Member
          • Mar 2010
          • 5798

          #5
          The party in power - the labour party are nuts. The election is on May the 6th and I hope they get booted out good and proper. We need to get rid of the loony left in Britain.

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          • PipenSnus
            Member
            • Apr 2010
            • 1038

            #6
            The right wing in the UK is no better. David Cameron, head of the Conservative (a.k.a. Tory) Party, is as big a nutcase as you can find. Even Boris Johnson (mayor of London, also a Tory) is more sane. And don't get me started on those Nazis in the British National Party.

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            • Frosted
              Member
              • Mar 2010
              • 5798

              #7
              I'm going with the UK Independence Party. Straight talking no bull - get out of Europe and regain democratic control of our own borders. They're not going to win but I want to see them getting seats in Parliament.

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              • PipenSnus
                Member
                • Apr 2010
                • 1038

                #8
                The LibDems are more likely to gain seats than the UKIP, and end up being the deciding voting bloc in a hung Parliament. But I respect your desire to back your convictions, even if you are backing a lame horse.

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                • sgreger1
                  Member
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 9451

                  #9
                  You guys need to vote for whoever wants to gtfo of the EU and that mess. Brown and his party have been wrecking europe for too long.


                  I don't know anything about any of their parties but honestly I would take the guy on the left, the nationalist one. But again I really don't know anything about any of the parties involved other than what I saw in the debate the other night.

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                  • Frosted
                    Member
                    • Mar 2010
                    • 5798

                    #10
                    I know that it was a European election but remember that UKIP came second - so that's a hell of a lot of people voting for them.

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