Greens 250K votes, BNP 500K votes - yet no airtime for BNP = democracy?

[Mad-Martin]

so, why is it we have to put up with Bennett's whining drivel 24/7, yet most of the other fringe parties never even get a look in (on the TV)

for example, DUP - will prob win more seats than Greens but not even in the 7 way debate, and BNP - double the amount of votes yet not even a mention. And how about the TUSC and other Socialist parties, no airtime whatsoever.

democracy? gotta be a joke right

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Where are the BNP going to win 'double the amount of votes' of the Greens?

Do you have a link with which to substantiate this claim?

 

[butchersapron]

How many candidates are the BNP standing?
8

How many are the Greens standing?
571.

 

[butchersapron]

Where are the BNP going to win 'double the amount of votes' of the Greens?

Do you have a link with which to substantiate this claim?

They did last GE. But that's not what airtime is based on - it's candidates stood.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

It seems pretty unlikely that they'll do it in terms of votes either this time based on the polls I've seen.

 

[Pickman's model]

seems to explain where yer man's coming from with his other threads

 

[butchersapron]

It seems pretty unlikely that they'll do it in terms of votes either this time based on the polls I've seen.

It's impossible given they have 8 candidates in total, but also irrelevant to airtime calculations.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

All right, that's enough of this one I think.

 

[teqniq]

What was it, two days? Three?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Are they a banned poster returning? If not I don't think they have done anything worth banning.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Flavour]

Are they a banned poster returning? If not I don't think they have done anything worth banning.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

agreed. there were warning signs and some blatant trolling but nothing explicitly ban-worthy thus far.

 

[Pickman's model]

agreed. there were warning signs and some blatant trolling but nothing explicitly ban-worthy thus far.

you haven't seen minority report, have you.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Joke threads are one thing but he'd started trying to shit up real threads too.

 

[Disjecta Membra]

I like other views, makes it more interesting. I get the mods view tho, that they get bored of it and it's hard to tell if it's just going nowhere(pointless trolling) nevertheless it's a shame.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

I'd be keen on some alternative views, U75 is a bit insular these days, but this one was just a troll as far as I can see.

 

[8ball]

Does this banning represent official U75 endorsement of the Greens?

 

[Pickman's model]

Does this banning represent official U75 endorsement of the Greens?

i would be particularly interested in the management view of kale.

 

[Pickman's model]

I like other views, makes it more interesting. I get the mods view tho, that they get bored of it and it's hard to tell if it's just going nowhere(pointless trolling) nevertheless it's a shame.

have we ever had a bnp'er or similar who was able to put over their view in an interesting and non-trolling manner?

 

[8ball]

i would be particularly interested in the management view of kale.

Good source of iron.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

have we ever had a bnp'er or similar who was able to put over their view in an interesting and non-trolling manner?

I think that would be very very difficult to do in a sustained but not bannable method.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

p.s.I don't think these boards are any the worse for that.

 

[Sprocket.]

''Democracy! What is the point in Democracy when electors keep voting for the wrong party''
Anon.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

''Democracy! What is the point in Democracy when electors keep voting for the wrong party''
Anon.

Well, yes. Brecht had it right, even if he didn't mean it.

 

[Sprocket.]

Well, yes. Brecht had it right, even if he didn't mean it.

Thank you for the memory prod, I don't get out much these days!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Thank you for the memory prod, I don't get out much these days!

I didn't recognise your quote - I was thinking of dissolving the populace and electing another.

 

[Sprocket.]

Ah! Told ya.

 

[Disjecta Membra]

have we ever had a bnp'er or similar who was able to put over their view in an interesting and non-trolling manner?

fair point

 

[William of Walworth]

I have very little doubt that this idiot was a formerly banned returner. Even if he wasn't (unlikely IMO), he was blatantly too thick-as-pigshit stupid** to be worth retaining.

**Or pretending to be -- same difference in effect.