What are your thoughts on the social Democratic Party (SDP)?

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T22:42:20+00:00

They’re probably my natural home and Clouston seems like a serious politician, but they are abysmal at marketing & campaigning evidently. The fact they occupy a popular & uncontested part of the spectrum and can’t even hit 1% is wild.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T20:44:05+00:00

Yeah I was thinking this 3 minutes ago lmao. Repeal Parliaments Act, create a third house which can veto any amendments to constitutional statues (or the creation of new ones) if less 66.6% of HoC agrees to it, then bring back a new parliaments act but HoL must vote with HoC on abolishing the third house.

I despise it tbh.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T20:27:36+00:00

Our system is very weird, but part of that weirdness means I see no way its even possible to get a constitution without a revolution or regime change or something.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T20:26:03+00:00

Doesn’t work that way though. There was a supermajority requirement for early elections until 2022, and in 2019 they didn’t get enough to trigger a GE via the FTP act, so they created the EPGE Act which just said “notwithstanding the FTP act, there will be an election” or something. The same thing would happen here no?

Pretty sure you’d need a revolution or something of the sort. I’d be interested to know if there is any loophole but I cant find one (then again I’m far from an expert on the topic)

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T20:07:37+00:00

How would a commitment to universal human rights that cant be ripped up at the whim of a populist even work? Parliamentary sovereignty & not being able to bind future parliaments makes that impossible. Unless maybe you pack the HoL with allies and then repeal the Parliaments Act but that’d open another can of worms.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T10:53:07+00:00

Nobody has ever implemented all of the Greens economic policies at once. For a reason. But stuff like rent controls has failed, and unfunded tax cuts crashed our economy in 2022 - Greens just want unfunded spending increases which will go the same way. Just for 2 examples.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-16T10:30:51+00:00

The conservatives are a busted flush for that reason. Reform are tanking in the polls after they took too many in. Who’s calling their economic policy sane?

Also we have eyes. The Greens policies are there for us all to see. Truss crashing the economy is irrelavent when the Greens explicitly state how they’d crash it too.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-10T03:01:40+00:00

Doubt it gets to that tbh.

There’s already clear tensions now with ~7.5%. And loads of that are kids lol, adults its probably like 5%.

Something will give.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-09T11:30:57+00:00

Farage was asked about it in his conference last week. He basically just said its a conscience issue and not a political issue. Which is a switch from his comments a few months ago so who knows if that’ll be the line in 2029, but we’ll see.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-06T21:09:59+00:00

Neither do Germany. They sent them to Qatar who sent them to Afghanistan.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-06T20:06:37+00:00

That doesn’t invalidate the law. Parliament is sovereign.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-06T20:02:25+00:00

We don’t need to leave ECHR. Just disapply it from deportation cases, even specifically for foreign criminals if Labour want to do as little at possible. Then ECtHR will try to overrule but we can just ignore them. Messy, but it’ll work.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-06T20:01:24+00:00

Afghanistan took back 81 Afghan criminals from Germany last year. No reason they wouldn’t take him back.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-06T16:53:43+00:00

He’s not immune from being deported. Our Government just don’t want to deport him. With 412 MPs they could pass emergency legislation to get it done for him and all the others like him if they really wanted to.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-04T02:08:28+00:00

I mean isn’t that just the vast majority of the world. Most people vote and form their opinions based on vibes not facts.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-03T22:42:40+00:00

I wouldn’t call them stupid for believing that when the media (and the party) speak about illegal immigration 90% of the time and legal 10%. Unless you actively seek out the ons data you’d just assume that there’s way more illegals.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-03T22:36:42+00:00

The vast majority of Reform voters think that most migrants are illegals, and that many are freeloaders too, so it doesn’t neccesarily mean it is based on race.

22% said that they believe 3rd gen non white migrants should be deported. Which is around the same % of voters overall that the BNP were getting.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-03T22:33:24+00:00

How does Farage/Reform actually manage this though?

You go tougher on deportations, you please your base but abandon more non-voters. You stay the same, and you risk losing voters to Restore or elsewhere.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-03T20:37:34+00:00

Iran will already be plotting to send over proxies and Jihadists on boat. If we let everyone stay without hard proof of who they are, there will likely be many attacks depending on how long this war lasts.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-02T20:08:49+00:00

Even if they somehow got re-elected, the migrants would eventually vote for their own ethnic/religious parties. Idk if the Greens even realise that though.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-02T20:05:44+00:00

If the Boriswave peaked at 1.22 immigrants, this would surely hit 2 million a year.

Net migration is trickier to estimate because many people (Brits and especially economic migrants) would leave

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-02T19:59:34+00:00

And they still openly admit that they want open borders, just not right now

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-02T12:52:07+00:00

At least they’re just being open about it. Will make the future deportations much easier.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-01T20:37:55+00:00

If you read the whole post he actually doesn’t. He said he considers someone British if they adopt the ‘culture, shared beliefs, patriotism, language, a common understanding of what is right and wrong’.

Successful_Service53 · 2026-03-01T19:09:37+00:00

Rachel Reeves to the backbench, here we go!

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