Politically Disenfranchised

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I'm so fed up with all these totally shit options. I really like some policies which have been floated across the political spectrum, but I don't feel like I can vote for anyone who will legislate me out of existence as a woman.

What, realistically, would happen if we formed our own GC political party?

Being realistic, it's extremely likely to go the way of the Green party and Reform (lots of ideas, strong pitch, no big momentum). Add to that, the main parties wouldn't even need to do anything, the TRAs would immediately launch a smear campaign.

But I'm starting to think that this is the only way we will get heard and be able to bring what is happening properly into the light. Women working from within doesn't seem to be going anywhere in any of the left-leaning parties. Has anyone else thought about this? Have I missed a previous thread on it somewhere?

but when that minority party is in a coalition they wield a disproportionate amount of power.

Although in real life the amount of power they have is still in the hand of their bigger partner.

Look at the Lib Dems. Sold out their promise on tuitiont fees for the promise of PR, which never happened.

And as a result, although they were the junior group, get the blame for tuition fees when clearly it was the power of the larger group (the Tories) who were the culprits.

Some very good points to consider here. I thought it was £10,000 so £500 feels much more doable. From my point of view, the ideal would be seeing a raft of independent candidates across the UK drawing attention to the cause everywhere and turning up for results night (and hopefully, some actually getting in and being able to do something about the whole situation).

Really? Did you notice the power the Liberal Democrats wielded 2010 - 15? Me neither. They claim to have stopped Austerity being even worse . Perhaps they did but mainly they were used as a sort of mudguard by the Tories. Coalition is the norm here - we haven't had a single party government elected since 77. Thank heavens.

Because of this parties have their red lines before they go into partnership. The Libdems were flying blind. Some say coalitions lead to weak government. Looking at Trump and Johnson I say ' bring it on then!'

I was thinking of the Scottish Greens and their threats to break the coalition with the SNP if the GRR didn't go through.

Comment on this and other Green-SNP disagreements:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/snp-coalition-scottish-greens-leaves-29972118

She has been rejected again. It is looking very suspicious now, given that the monster raving loony party never has a problem.
The SDP has no representation in my area and neither do either of the communist parties. (I can never figure out which is which.)