On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:20 pm, beb wrote:
But what are your policies towards the environment, health, crime, terrorism, transport, taxation and homelessness?
I think what Sid is proposing is a single-issue party. The aim of these is somewhat different to that of a full manifesto party that pretty much has to have a policy for every issue.
The whole point of a single-issue party is not to gain elected office, but to attract enough votes that a full manifesto party will start paying attention to that single issue and adopt the same policies to gain the single-issue parties votes, either that or some single-issue parties actually do manage to 'grow' to a full manifesto but it's quite rare.
That's the way I think I understand it anyway, somebody more versed in politics can correct me.