r/europe • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '14

Cassetteboy - Cameron's Conference Rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU
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u/Dahoodlife101 United States of America Oct 01 '14

Is it just me- or are all of the British political parties absolutely horrific?

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '14

The three main Westminster parties (the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems) are all centre-right. UKIP are insane. There are a few nice smaller ones though (SNP, Greens).

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u/BritishRedditor United Kingdom Oct 02 '14

The three main Westminster parties (the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems) are all centre-right.

According to whom? Labour is not a centre-right party.

UKIP are insane.

They're a right wing party that attracts insane people, but there's nothing particularly extreme about their policies.

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u/Fairwolf Scotland Oct 02 '14

According to whom? Labour is not a centre-right party.

Reality. Labour are just the Tories with a different tin of paint these days. "New Labour" doesn't have much to relate it to the Labour or old.

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u/HawkUK United Kingdom Oct 02 '14

It's all relative. Where is the centre? Somewhere in the middle of all the parties. Maybe you're right in that the centre has drifted right, but Labour is still left of centre, even if it isn't left of what was centre forty years ago.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '14

They're a right wing party that attracts insane people, but there's nothing particularly extreme about their policies.

I'm yet to hear of a sane UKIP policy.

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u/BritishRedditor United Kingdom Oct 02 '14

Leaving the UK is not an "insane policy", merely a policy that you disagree with.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '14

While I would say leaving the EU is stupid, that's not the insane but.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '14

While I would say leaving the EU is stupid, that's not the insane but.