Talk:Political parties of the United Kingdom

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Since the individual articles on political parties in the UK are a bit inconsistent - some lengthy and good - others short and just slagging off the party, I felt it was high time to have a summary of them. I'll be fiddling with this for a while, and adding the five(?) northern irish parties tonight... and i'll add a new main section for parties who aren't represented in parliament, the european parliament or any local assembly. That way, parties like the Liberal Party and stuff can go in at the bottom, in a section for parties who are only on councils. It ISN'T very snarky at the moment, it's just a nice plain overview of the parties. We can add that over time, but my main reason for this article was that some of the political party pages are a bit more snark than substance. Hope you like! DalekEXTERMINATE 20:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't see why we should have substance at all. We're not an encyclopedia. I propose we make this into a fork page and add suitable commentary/snark/hatchet jobs to the individual articles. Totnesmartin (talk) 22:42, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
"I don't see why we should have substance at all." Oh, come on. Admittedly, a list of political parties in a country with their respective policies, failings and notable people is not directly on mission. However, it is certainly of general interest to anybody who's reading about British politics; and I think that's a significant enough proportion of our target audience to be worth creating content for. In the context of authoritarianism, fundamentalist, pro-science, anti-science, socialist, conservative, liberal, etc, etc... very little will offer a better view of the political landscape than seeing who the main players are, and what they stand for. I don't see the benefit of this becoming a fork page at all... it has the navbox at the bottom, which can be used once someone is on a party's page anyway. Snark can be added, and this is mostly snark + commentary, it is in no way encyclopaedic. I think it's a good resource, or at least the outline for a good resource. DalekEXTERMINATE 23:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Is there any reason the Northern Irish parties were never actually added? Just asking before I do anything myself. --Danfly (talk) 12:23, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
I think we were all leaving it for someone else to do. Real first name and last initialTalk, talk, talk skim my contributions 12:34, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
There you go. Now to put in one last little tidbit about the Alliance Party I think. --Danfly (talk) 13:19, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
I think its appropriate for NI to come after Wales, since that is the usual order. Simply replace my text with what you have for SF and the DUP and it should work out nicely. I'm not going to edit in case the same thing happens again--Danfly (talk) 14:01, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Okay, it's been half an hour now. Guess it's up to me after all. --Danfly (talk) 14:51, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

[edit] BNP

The summary for BNP says they have one Euro MP, but the content says they have two. Two were elected, but has one been expelled, or should it be two? Jgharston (talk) 22:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Additional references

should be made to the Monster Raving Loonies and Bill Boaks. 171.33.197.73 (talk) 18:04, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm constantly looking for ways to work Bill Boaks references into RW. The trouble is he doesn't really fit the mission. There needs to be InterestingWiki for stuff like that. SophieWilderModerator 23:56, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

'Category of persons of non-standard, offbeat and eccentric political views' - and who occasionally are involved in useful things (as BB was). To be distinguished from those who think CP is for sissies, all persons not of their persuasion are doomed and others who fall under Poe's Law. 171.33.197.73 (talk) 18:16, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

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