Do you think the UK needs a new party that's?

[Mystic Mock]

Inbetween the Tory's and Labour's views? like I would take law & order and immigration from the Tory's, and I would have the party stamp out prejudice like Labour did when they was in charge.

Do you agree with me or do you believe that it should be only right wing policies or only left wing policies?

[Munchkins]

No party will ever satisfy people, no matter how middle of the road, or left, right wing it tries to be

[Marcus.]

we need one that listens to the pubic

[MTVN]

Well the Lib Dems are kind of a balance of Labour's social views while being more like the Conservatives economically (albeit a bit more progressive), all three parties are pretty centrist and similar these days though

[Mystic Mock]

Those 3 parties don't do anything though, im on about a new party that actually takes action and is middle of the road.

[MTVN]

Well that's a pretty vague demand there

[Kizzy]

Being elected on the strength of your policies and then scrapping them for totally new ones should be made more of an issue.
If you don't deliver what your manifesto promised by mid term then there should be serious questions asked.
However, as it stands there are many attractive proposals made but once in power it's FU!

Personally I would welcome a nice balance..
Helping people off benefits NOT by expecting them to work for free in poundland, but a real job with a living wage.
Ensuring EVERYONE pays a proportionate amout of tax to income.
Controversially I believe it was wrong to raise the threshold for taxation... It is important even those on low incomes feel they are contributing to their communities and society as a whole.
It would also remove some of the snobbery from those that are above the new threshold.
I feel it is important to remove as much of the 'us and them' as we can.
Hopefully then one day we will be able to say we are 'one nation'.

[joeysteele]

I voted yes as I believe a right mix of left and right policies can and should work if they are carried out in fairness,justice and with compassion and real understanding.

There was an attempt to have a 'new' party and politics in the 80s with the formation of the SDP that then formed an alliance with the then Liberals and finally they were merged into what is now the Liberal Democrats.

What annoys me is, that the Lib Dems joined this Coalition rightly in my view but then abandoned near all its main policies as to the cuts, tuition fees, VAT and the NHS.

A new party I doubt would or could get off the ground now,however, the most annoying thing about Politics at present is that as the real policy divisions become less apparant,there are loads of what is called 'concensus' politicians in all parties.
In my view, no one party has all the right policies and none have all wrong policies of the major parties.

I hope for the day,though it likely may never come when those consensus Politicians and MPs in all parties, in particular take a stand and really stand up strongly for more of concensus politics.
That would be the greatest advance in Politics and would also help end this nonsense of Govts coming in and spending loads of time and funds reversing what the previous Govt did before them just from an idealogical perspective.

[Marsh.]

Being elected on the strength of your policies and then scrapping them for totally new ones should be made more of an issue.
If you don't deliver what your manifesto promised by mid term then there should be serious questions asked.
However, as it stands there are many attractive proposals made but once in power it's FU!

This.

[Redway]

I voted yes as I believe a right mix of left and right policies can and should work if they are carried out in fairness,justice and with compassion and real understanding.

There was an attempt to have a 'new' party and politics in the 80s with the formation of the SDP that then formed an alliance with the then Liberals and finally they were merged into what is now the Liberal Democrats.

What annoys me is, that the Lib Dems joined this Coalition rightly in my view but then abandoned near all its main policies as to the cuts, tuition fees, VAT and the NHS.

A new party I doubt would or could get off the ground now,however, the most annoying thing about Politics at present is that as the real policy divisions become less apparant,there are loads of what is called 'concensus' politicians in all parties.
In my view, no one party has all the right policies and none have all wrong policies of the major parties.

I hope for the day,though it likely may never come when those consensus Politicians and MPs in all parties, in particular take a stand and really stand up strongly for more of concensus politics.
That would be the greatest advance in Politics and would also help end this nonsense of Govts coming in and spending loads of time and funds reversing what the previous Govt did before them just from an idealogical perspective.
Another great post, Joey.

[Nedusa]

I would love to see the end of the current two party political system in this country. I do not necessarily want to see the addition of many new parties more the addition of many independent MP's who have no particular party preference. This might allow voting on white papers and other house votes to be less party controlled.

I would also like to some form of proportional representation introduced to give each vote cast a bit more impact, I appreciate PR is in itself a whole separate area of debate.

Either way the status quo is unsustainable as currently young people are increasingly more disenfranchised and are turning their backs on politics.

[microscope]

There can never be any other party who could win the election other than the Conservatives or Labour - even though we have a Conservative/Liberal coalition taking place at the minute, but that was only because it was all so close in the last election but really doesn't mean much at all, as David Cameron and his cronies still call the shots.

Any hope of something else coming along and beating either of them is just a fantasy.