If you could form your own political party?

[Josy]

What would you call it?
What would your platform be?
What would you support?

[smudgie]

What would you call it?
What would your platform be?
What would you support?

The common sense party.

Getting the young into work and bringing the pension age down by allowing a voluntary smaller pension from 60-65 .

Getting out of the system what you have put in, with the exception of the vulnerable and needy.
Getting rid of some of the PC garbage.

[Kizzy]

The rational renational party.

We would put everything back in the hands of central and local government, and stop greedy shareholders of companies squeezing profits from business by cutting corners and exploiting their workforce.
Invest heavily in green energy, ban fracking and invest in nuclear fusion not fission.
Believe that children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way....

[arista]

What would you call it?
What would your platform be?
What would you support?


New World


New Towns Built (above sea level) with under floor heating
and Solar on Roofs
Every kitchen will have a Bin that Crushes its rubbish (inside a wall unit)into sealed Bio Bricks
that will heat the floors.

[In the Drunk Tank]

You should patent that bin idea quick arista

[arista]

You should patent that bin idea quick arista


Yes its the New World.
My Future the is better way to go.

[Ammi]

..I like the sound of an Arista Party, it has a nice ring to it...although that's probably not the reason to vote for someone...

[Ammi]

..ain't no bloc party like an Arista party...

[Kizzy]

New World


New Towns Built (above sea level) with under floor heating
and Solar on Roofs
Every kitchen will have a Bin that Crushes its rubbish (inside a wall unit)into sealed Bio Bricks
that will heat the floors.

My hero *sigh*

[joeysteele]

The 'NOW' Party.

My platform would be to set out to bring in all the members of any parties who are of a consensus thinking as to running the country.
They exist in all parties and their voices get lost in the party machines that they have to work so hard to keep intact.
I would want no more of that and in effect would like to see it as a really grand coalition that would work for everyone, taking account of all citizens no matter their status.

I would want all energy and essential services such as water to be the responsibility of the State, run to cover its overheads and future investment but not for the vast profits they are now.
I would want full and secure protection for those who are the most vulnerable in the UK and put an end to this divide and conquer attitude of setting citizen against citizen as to their status.
I would encourage success in both the public and private sectors with rewards for same too and recognition,striving to have them working hand in hand as many of them have done and still do,thereby removing this further setting out of dividing opinion as to those sectors.
My main support would go to the NHS and I would strive to see that nurtured and always protected, built up not brought down

The country has had enough of, I feel, of politicians being artificially against each other and not encouraging the citizens to work not only for the good of themselves but for others too.
That example if it were to come from the top, as in a Govt, could revolutionise the UK to heights we could only dream of.

Sadly likely for my lifetime, that is all the above could ever be,a dream or a fantasy,especially while the party machines are supported and allowed to go rumbling on,crushing most of society and its structure while supporting a minority of others.

[lostalex]

I've always wanted to write a full proper manifesto, but i'm too lazy right now. Someday I'll write a full one and post it here for you guys.

I think the best way to describe my political opinions are a combination of libertarianism and social democracy.

[Ammi]

I've always wanted to write a full proper manifesto, but i'm too lazy right now. Someday I'll write a full one and post it here for you guys.
I think the best way to describe my political opinions are a combination of libertarianism and social democracy.

..I'll look forward to that, Alex...

[Holly Christmas]

The 'NOW' Party.

My platform would be to set out to bring in all the members of any parties who are of a consensus thinking as to running the country.
They exist in all parties and their voices get lost in the party machines that they have to work so hard to keep intact.
I would want no more of that and in effect would like to see it as a really grand coalition that would work for everyone, taking account of all citizens no matter their status.

I would want all energy and essential services such as water to be the responsibility of the State, run to cover its overheads and future investment but not for the vast profits they are now.
I would want full and secure protection for those who are the most vulnerable in the UK and put an end to this divide and conquer attitude of setting citizen against citizen as to their status.
I would encourage success in both the public and private sectors with rewards for same too and recognition,striving to have them working hand in hand as many of them have done and still do,thereby removing this further setting out of dividing opinion as to those sectors.
My main support would go to the NHS and I would strive to see that nurtured and always protected, built up not brought down

The country has had enough of, I feel, of politicians being artificially against each other and not encouraging the citizens to work not only for the good of themselves but for others too.
That example if it were to come from the top, as in a Govt, could revolutionise the UK to heights we could only dream of.

Sadly likely for my lifetime, that is all the above could ever be,a dream or a fantasy,especially while the party machines are supported and allowed to go rumbling on,crushing most of society and its structure while supporting a minority of others.

:douf: an excellent post Joey, well thought out, realistic and something to aspire to. If only ....

Joey for PM :love:

[Ammi]

..yeah, that is very well thought out, Joey..(as always..)..but if you're not going to bring in free milkshake for grown ups, then I'll have to consider voting elsewhere...it's ok having good dreams and aspirations but if you can't get the basics right, then we're heading for a broken Britain...

[joeysteele]

..yeah, that is very well thought out, Joey..(as always..)..but if you're not going to bring in free milkshake for grown ups, then I'll have to consider voting elsewhere...it's ok having good dreams and aspirations but if you can't get the basics right, then we're heading for a broken Britain...

:joker:A more broken Britain than we have now,surely not possible.
I would think free milkshakes could easily be made the norm Ammi.:joker:

[The Human Santapede]

You'll get to start your own political party soon, TiBB Elections are back in April.

[Kyle]

You'll get to start your own political party soon, TiBB Elections are back in April.

:hugesmile: another popularity contest.

[The Human Santapede]

:hugesmile: another popularity contest.

You'd be surprised with this.

[Kyle]

You'd be surprised with this.

Why?

[Ammi]

:joker:A more broken Britain than we have now,surely not possible.
I would think free milkshakes could easily be made the norm Ammi.:joker:


..make it banana flavour and I'll even head the campaign, Joey...

[joeysteele]

Not wanting to jump any gun here Ben,not even sure if I will decide to try to create a party or decide again to support another person and their party as I did with Jack,(who in my view was brilliant in his work as to everything), last year.
However can I ask for a consideration as to it being more of the first tibb election format than last years.
Last years with the individual threads for the parties left little room for real debate, the original format where the election was held on an ongoing thread with all parties canvassing and dealing with questions on that one thread was,in my opinion, more successful and entertaining too.

Last year, it had to be that members actually had to look on the individual parties threads and if they didn't then that put some at a disadvantage.
For me anyway, I preferred the first election process, where everyone canvassed for votes and members could see everything from all parties and their supporters on that one ongoing thread,raising any points they wished to on that thread too.

Just my thoughts but I found last year as a supporter hard going a little, as some parties threads had great activity while others got very little in reality.
I found it very hard to do Jack the full justice his work warranted,which wouldn't,in my view, have been the case under the first tibb election format.

One long thread as a sort of newsreel as to all the parties during the whole election process is for me the best and fairest way to do it.
It is always great fun but I feel last years format left some elements almost excluded overall.

Anyway thanks for your time in reading this Ben, good luck with it as always.

[joeysteele]

..make it banana flavour and I'll even head the campaign, Joey...

Not a problem at all Ammi, free banana milkshakes would be the tiniest of my worries if I had a party in Govt and one of the easisest to grant too I would think.:joker:

[Holly Christmas]

It's a lot more than a popularity Contest, it's an event that was designed to bring Tibb together and create a positive vibe, obviously there will be an element of popularity as there is in the majority of Tibb games and events, and that only reflects the true nature of politics anyway, people are popular for a reason and candidates with the likeability factor coupled with a good campaign that catches forum interest will prosper in this election 'battle'. It's been great fun and very entertaining both times it's run so far, and it's captured imaginations and got people involved during off season. The efforts put in have been something special. As the original creator (and proud :douf:) I'm quite chuffed it's become an annual event. Similar to the pub quiz, there's no limit to how many members can take part either, and with this specifically there are lots of levels of involvement available.

Ooh it's like a sales pitch :D

Vive Le Tibb Election :love:

[joeysteele]

It's a lot more than a popularity Contest, it's an event that was designed to bring Tibb together and create a positive vibe, obviously there will be an element of popularity as there is in the majority of Tibb games and events, and that only reflects the true nature of politics anyway, people are popular for a reason and candidates with the likeability factor coupled with a good campaign that catches forum interest will prosper in this election 'battle'. It's been great fun and very entertaining both times it's run so far, and it's captured imaginations and got people involved during off season. The efforts put in have been something special. As the original creator (and proud :douf:) I'm quite chuffed it's become an annual event. Similar to the pub quiz, there's no limit to how many members can take part either, and with this specifically there are lots of levels of involvement available.

Ooh it's like a sales pitch :D

.

Vive Le Tibb Election :love:

Thnak you for starting that too Kate, it was great event for all interested.

That also had the format I myself preferred, with the crossfire of questioning and commenting from everyone, to everyone, on the same thread.
It felt like a real election.

It is a really good idea and I am glad it is an annual thing too.

[lostalex]

You'd be surprised with this.

no he won't. the last one was a nightmare, that took way too long, and was overly complicated, and more of a popularity contest than ever.

[Holly Christmas]

no he won't. the last one was a nightmare, that took way too long, and was overly complicated, and more of a popularity contest than ever.

No, it wasn't. Ben ran it very well and the vast majority of members really enjoyed it. Can't please all the people all of the time.

[lostalex]

No, it wasn't. Ben ran it very well and the vast majority of members really enjoyed it. Can't please all the people all of the time.

it took FOREVER. It went for over a MONTH.

or maybe i'm thinking of the one before last, actually i don't think i was around during the last one. maybe the last one wasn't as bad. But the one i was around for was a nightmare around here.

[Holly Christmas]

it took FOREVER. It went for over a MONTH.

Yes true but it's an election. Loads to do. I know it seems a long time but it's just one small part of the forum though Alex, just don't bother with it if it's not your cup of tea. :)

[Josy]

Eh can we stop taking my thread off topic, my OP has nothing to do with the TiBB Elections :fist:

[lostalex]

yea Kate, stop ruining Josy's thread :fist:

[Holly Christmas]

:p I didn't introduce the topic of tibb election lol.

But yeah, we've gone way off topic .... Sorry Josy :(

[Kizzy]

It's not that way off topic to be fair, tibb elections were bound to come up discussing fictional politics.

[Z]

I don't even know where I would begin :laugh:

[joeysteele]

Eh can we stop taking my thread off topic, my OP has nothing to do with the TiBB Elections :fist:

:joker:I actually lost what thread this was then I realised it was the one you made as to a political party.:joker:

I then got all tied up after ben raised the tibb election event.Just to add that too, it should take around 2 weeks at the very least to complete, some people missed it near completely last time so it need to run over 3 weeks or more really, there is a lot of work for whoever has a party to do and the setting up of everything.
Elections in reality do take time.

Anyway, you have managed to open up more debate on both counts,your question and the tibb election event, so you can claim even greater success for your thread Josy.
It was a good original question you posed too,I had to think as to what I would like to see or run as a political party.
I was also amazed how, when I think back to when I was 16, how much in the post I made as to that how much my views as to politics has changed up to now.
So it was,in my view, a really good question from you as most of your questions are anyway.

[Kizzy]

Most questions... even 'what type of hat do you wear? That's pushing it joey :laugh:

[Josy]

Keep on topic please

[Kizzy]

Josy forms her own party...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9p3bw4_ErFU/RjwIfnZFucI/AAAAAAAAAC8/aRbDTmbDzxc/s400/FUN_SpongeBob.jpg

(that's a joke don't get 'krabby')

[Jake.]

the picture doesn't show for me

[lostalex]

Josy forms her own party...
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29600000/fun-sponge-bob-sb-spongebob-squarepants-29620101-320-320.gif

(that's a joke don't get 'krabby')

did somebody say Krabby patty?

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/127/4/0/spongebob_excited_by_allkawaii-d64i21r.jpg

[Kizzy]

Me and alex just formed the 'goofy goober' party!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IaP-MCeqI8I/TbraB59QNwI/AAAAAAAAAJo/Mos9QKEF2Yw/s640/Spongebob_plus_Patrick.jpg

[lostalex]

umm, no.

http://i.imgur.com/bCVTtWh.jpg

[Kizzy]

http://i.imgur.com/uUwn7.gif

[lostalex]

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-27319-spongebob-patrick-star-twerk-g-0Tvt.gif

[Josy]

Josy forms her own party...
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29600000/fun-sponge-bob-sb-spongebob-squarepants-29620101-320-320.gif

(that's a joke don't get 'krabby')

Image fail :idc:

[Kizzy]

Image fail :idc:

Sorted :D

[lostalex]

Sorted :D

that's not the the original image you tried to post. LIAR.

you used spongebob because i responded with spongebob, but your original image was NOT spongebob.

how dare you use spongebob in your manipulative game of deception!

I feel so used. such an innocent sponge getting wrapped up in this sordid mess :(

[Kizzy]

that's not the the original image you tried to post. LIAR.
It's the same wording but hopefully josy will be able to see this one ALEX

[lostalex]

It's the same wording but hopefully josy will be able to see this one ALEX

but it wasn't spongebob. What was it originally kizzy? tell us.

[Kizzy]

It was spongebob alex hence my very funny play on the word 'krabby'.

What are you doing alex?.... Josy is admin, if she really wanted to see what it was she could.

[lostalex]

It was spongebob alex hence my very funny play on the word 'krabby'.

What are you doing alex?.... Josy is admin, if she really wanted to see what it was she could.

she said she couldn't see it.

[lostalex]

but if it was spongebob, then fair enuf. i love spongebob too, and spongebob would not want me to make you feel bad about it, so okay.

spongebob is cool.

tEDY0-vPFR8

[the truth]

scrapt VAT .....that would change europe for the better more than anything else any government has ever done.

flat rate of tax

scrap all stealth taxes

drill for oil in scotland and test fracking up north away from the masses.

improve the train tracks, build new ones to out of town retail parks, scrap electtrification, who needs 300mph trains in the uk? renationalize them and also all all utilites, water, gas electrics all renationalized

break up the banks into 100s of smaller ones

increase the number of people regulating them and tighten up the laws
send illegal traders to ail for a long time.

harness the tides and build the severn barrage to supply 5% more energy

rearrange the way all councils are run, make them infinitely more transaprent and accountable. ensure each council has more than 1% staff who investigate council corruption and waste

cut back the civil service overall by 20% simply by eficency savings and acocuntability

build a comprehensive strategy for all councils to streamline their road maintenance policy. ensuring works on gas, roads, water, electrics are co-ordinated to happen simultaneously. thus saving us billions in expense and lost business revenues.
lower town centre rates, scrap loads of the petty local council red tapes which strangle business..i.e. building design specs for no logical reason costing entrepreneurs tens of thousands..they make it up as they go along

invest more in electric cars

invest billions into finding , developing, encouraing financing entrepreneurs , small businesses and in particular inventions

introduce a gcse, a level, degree course for inventors. no one knows what to do with inventions in this country

invest billions into finding and developing new writers. this needs to be part of an all embracing strategy which invests in risk, creativity and talent. british writers have withered on the vine for decades. wheres the new shakespeare? dylan thomas|?
more investment in the film and tv industry. also tighter regulations that a percentage is spent on indepenedent film and regional movies finding unique subect matter. the class system still destroys the Uk film industry. very few regional accents still. let alone regional stories.

reopen the most competitive best and richest coal mines. invest all the new modern technology to find the safest and best seams. build the coal shafts deeper and wider. start with a handful of the best pits and take it form there. british coal is amongst the best. same goes for the quarries, world class slate, not being cut, just wasting our natural resources, insanse

far more acocuntability in the nhs. scrap every trust board. self serving in house back scratching nepotistic quangos. these people are the most to blame for nhs failures.
tighten up the entire system, draw up a constitution. clarify exactly what is the role of every member of staff. thus stamping out the buck pasisng culture. each person must take responsibility for what they do and dont do. re-prioritse people getting scanned and checked up thoroughly. blood tests arent enough, back , somach, kidney, blood clot scans, xrays , should all become far easier to get. get people scanned, find out whats wrong with them, diagnose the problem then you can know exactly whats medication and help they need. without the scans we are second guessing, people get sick unnecsarily, blocking beds, taking pills they may not need. get the scans then all else will follow. its pure common sense logic. its all a mess right now. most of the workers may have good intentions but the structure is a mess. clean it up and give the bad workers no place to hide, if any are guilty of abuse or negligence , stamp them out immediately. too many cover ups have destroyed too many nhs wards and innocent peoples lives

more later, I bet u cant wait? lol that is if nayone bothered reading this

[Holly Christmas]

I've read it. I agree in particular with your views on the NHS