English Political Thread Not For The Dumb Americans

[Stopper]

Oops, you've got Green already.

[reverend_kyle]

Liberal Democrats or the Socialist Respect party here......

I'm a dumb american but i took a test here...

http://www.quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=55599

[Stopper]

Hmmm, I'd be a bit worried there, kyle, if that's the result it gave you. This man is the leader of Respect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gall ... rother.jpg

[reverend_kyle]

Well i got Liberal Democrats party... The things it said about the respect party i can get behind.

[Pedronicus]

Who are the BMP? Perhaps you are referring to the British National Party, Max?

The M and N are right next to each other

Who's the dumb one now?

The BMP are the British Motocross Party

I voted for them when I was 14 as their manifesto promised a chrome Mongoose to all 14 year olds and all small rivers to be directed down open oval drains.

I never got the mongoose, but the local Indian Resturant got fire bombed twice.

[TitusFinn]

Who are the BMP? Perhaps you are referring to the British National Party, Max?

The M and N are right next to each other

Who's the dumb one now?

The BMP are the British Motocross Party

I voted for them when I was 14 as their manifesto promised a chrome Mongoose to all 14 year olds and all small rivers to be directed down open oval drains.

I never got the mongoose, but the local Indian Resturant got fire bombed twice.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[vtmarik]

As an American who isn't dumb and is genuinely interested in learning about the British political parties, may I request a link to some info.

Or should I just check wikipedia?

[Machiavelli]

Well if anything intelligent had been said in this thread you could just read that, but without us Americans the thread is just lame.

[Finsdale]

Were they attempting to constitute all Americans as being dumb, or what? I may not consider myself a genius, but I really don't think I'm dumb.

[vtmarik]

Were they attempting to constitute all Americans as being dumb, or what? I may not consider myself a genius, but I really don't think I'm dumb.

Well compared to the brits, we are greatly less cultured.

However, our judges don't stop people from wearing a specific kind of hat just because they were wearing that hat when they robbed someone. Anti-Social Behaviour Orders are about the stupidest thing i've ever heard of, and I've read the Raelians' books.

[Stopper]

I've never been convinced that British people are any more cultured or knowledgable than Americans. A country where The Sun is the best-selling newspaper and everyone is a monoglot can't be all that cultured!

BTW I can't recommend any better links than Wikipedia for British political parties, because not only do they have a page for each party, each page for each party actually contains a box at the bottom with links for all the major and minor parties. And it all seems pretty accurate & comprehensive.

If it was British news you were after, I'd recommend http://www.guardian.co.uk - it has a left-of-centre bias, but it's probably the fairest paper - but then I might just be biased myself!

[reverend_kyle]

Were they attempting to constitute all Americans as being dumb, or what? I may not consider myself a genius, but I really don't think I'm dumb.

Well compared to the brits, we are greatly less cultured.

However, our judges don't stop people from wearing a specific kind of hat just because they were wearing that hat when they robbed someone. Anti-Social Behaviour Orders are about the stupidest thing i've ever heard of, and I've read the Raelians' books.

Yeah we are greatly less cultured.. I had no clue british politics were so different until I took that test.

[reverend_kyle]

I've never been convinced that British people are any more cultured or knowledgable than Americans. A country where The Sun is the best-selling newspaper and everyone is a monoglot can't be all that cultured!

BTW I can't recommend any better links than Wikipedia for British political parties, because not only do they have a page for each party, each page for each party actually contains a box at the bottom with links for all the major and minor parties. And it all seems pretty accurate & comprehensive.

If it was British news you were after, I'd recommend http://www.guardian.co.uk - it has a left-of-centre bias, but it's probably the fairest paper - but then I might just be biased myself!

I learned about the guardian from fark..

and if its canadian news your after since canada is all bascially great britain anyways its http://www.cbc.ca

[Stopper]

I was just wondering, kyle, in what particular way you were surprised to find British politics varied from American?

I have to say, that test you took - I could only plough through about 40 questions myself - it seems to ask questions on the minutiae of the parties' respective positions. That may be enlightening in a factual sort of way, but I doubt it gives much idea of why people in the UK vote the way they do.

Like, I vote (and donate to, and have membership of) Labour, but I agree with little of what the party does. I just feel I have to take a realistic position - and as things stand, the other parties will get my support over my dead body.

[Joe McCarthy]

Yeah we are greatly less cultured.. I had no clue british politics were so different until I took that test.

Whats this we shit though man? You flunked a test, "we" didn't.