Voting in the future

SteakAndCake

I know you remainers want to stay in your fortress Europe but that's a bit extreme.

There's a big world out there. Time you guys embraced it.

klaxhu

Very interesting discussion on politics live on the BBC as I type.

John Curtice making the point in the Newport by election that the Tories and labour lost 20% of the vote share between them.

And that polling shows UKIP and the brexit party could get up to 25% support.

Good. fudge the mainstream parties.

SteakAndCake

And that can only be a good thing if it happens.

20 years of Labour/Tory goverments have been, sadly pretty terrible, in the main.

Long overdue someone else to have a turn/input (just not the Lib Dems).

Bl4ckGryph0n

Because extremism never ends badly does it?

Bl4ckGryph0n

In this case I’d tolerate it

SteakAndCake

UKIP and the Brexit parties are jokes, but their rise moves the center further right.  What comes after them might not be as incompetent, parochial, or funny.

Bl4ckGryph0n

UKIP is now, but was pretty mainstream albeit a single issue party. I couldn’t possibly support them these days. But it’s rise wasn’t due to the right, it was about leaving the EU.

Greg Hook

And it’s a real shame that on paper both the Conservative and Labour are for Brexit. Yet in practise they are just in it for themselves.

Bl4ckGryph0n

Obviously the current political parties are doing a great job, so we should just carry on as things are?

SteakAndCake

That's no excuse to embrace the fringes and extremes.