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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: November 28, 2009, 05:14:39 PM »

We seem to have one of these threads every few months. And they're always accidentally amusing, probably because the easily available information about political parties on the internet is so consistently dreadful.
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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2009, 05:18:10 PM »


I love the fact that at no point in that article does it mention that the SLP is, to all intents and purposes, a Stalinist organisation.
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2009, 02:11:47 PM »


Yes, I read that. What I was getting at is that all of the factions in the SLP (whether still in it or not) are, in practice, Stalinist. While the article gives a very different impression (not that it would be a problem for anyone British and over a certain age - the name "Arthur Scargill" is more than enough).
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2009, 08:11:59 AM »

Not sure if this is a good idea as I'll just end up looking like something of an SI hack (and as being a hack goes, how utterly unsexy is that?) but, eh. Why not. Using ag's list of countries because it's the longest:

US: DSA, which means voting for the Democrats (as less-than-great as they are) most of the time. Occasional votes for random fringe nutters when appropriate.
UK: Labour
France: Plural Left (if that term is still used) but no loyalty to any party, because I have serious issues with the PS and, obviously, there are a different set of issues with the other Left parties.
Germany: SPD
Italy: I would vote for the PD, but... sigh. In the First Republic Italy would have been pretty much the only place where I'd have supported the Commies.
Spain: PSOE
Catalunya: PSC
Israel: I have a sentimental liking for Labour, despite everything. I'll leave it at that.
South Korea: they're all awful. None of the right-wing parties and not the Democrats either. The smaller leftish parties look a little crazed as well, but probably one of those...
Japan: SDP. Which, of course, means voting DPJ in most single-member constituencies.
Canada: NDP
Australia: ALP
South Africa: ANC
India: not for any of the parties in the BJP-led coalition. Beyond that, mostly a case of looking carefully at individual candidates...
Poland: I don't know, probably SDPL.
Chile: Socialists
Brazil: I can never remember enough about the various parties to comment for sure. Would have voted for Lula though.
Denmark: Social Democrats
Netherlands: PvdA
Mexico: PRD but would not have voted for AMLO.

...of course in countries where you have to vote for individual candidates, there will always be people in parties I support that I could never vote for.

More interesting, perhaps, is where people would stand on internal divisions within given parties Grin
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2009, 09:19:24 AM »


Don't know what SDA is or was, but the LiD electoral coalition fell apart in 2008.
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« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2010, 05:56:46 PM »

As mentioned previously, the Libertarian Party ran a grand total of two candidates at the last General Election and is led by an internet troll.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2010, 11:15:06 AM »

FDP? You? Doesn't feel right, tbh.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2010, 11:34:07 AM »

Style issue or a policy one? Or both?
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