The Straight Choice

What just happened?

The electoral commission doesn’t publish it’s own breakdown of the data by sub-constituency, but just links to the BBC webpage of election results.

Well, that’s great. Now we have Nick Griffin going out and representing my region for the next five years. As you should know, I was rooting for the Green Party. (Unless I am in a party, how would I know anything about election leafleting? They don’t teach it in school, you know.)

Here’s the breakdown:

Tits! Missed by 0.3% of the vote, a marginal value that was garnered by the small parties known as English Democrats, Arthur Scargill Labour Party, No2EU, Jury Team, and Libertas.

I’ve already commented on Libertas and Jury Team (in my personal no-holds-barred blog).

Today we have a look at The Christian Party (UK) and the Christian People’s Alliance who told people to put their cross by the cross.

Ain’t Wikipedia great! Under the Christian Party, the Welsh flag will be banned because it’s the sign of the devil.

That’s a single issue for you people of Wales.

Hey, dude, it’s only a flag. What’s the fuss? It’s hardly the most serious matter.

Here’s their party political broadcast by the leaders of the two parties. Get your heads out of the sand and watch it. They’ve got an elephant in the room.

The Christian Party is a bible-believing faith-based Conservative Party, that believes in small government, greater labourly(sp?) responsibility, low taxes based on an economy driven by thrift and enterprise rather than debt and consumerism.

The Christian Peoples Alliance is a christian democratic party linked to christians in politics right across Europe. We exist to challenge the secular agenda of the big parties, and we’ve carried the support of church leaders right the way from Anglicans, Roman Catholics, and evangelicals.

What unites us is our Christian faith and the values that flow from it. Judeo-Christian values that have carved out a heritage and our history and provide the foundations for our hope in the future.

Together [we] have set out a manifesto of practical measures based on biblical principles that, if adopted, will make a better Britain for us all.

We call our manifesto A Time of Jubilee.

Sounds a bit like the Republican party under George W. Bush — who, along with Tony Blair, I understand, was a Christian. They also explain (on their aptly named www.wastedvote.info page) that a vote for the Christian Party will keep the BNP out.

Well, it didn’t, did it? That’s another thing the Electoral Commission could do for us: conduct opinions poll a week before the election and publish them in the public interest so we can all see where we stand, tactical-voting-wise. People need to know.

As I am collecting videos explaining the d’Holt method of voting, here’s their public information effort (which is still better than the Electoral Commission’s)

I’m a single issue man myself. It’s not so much that Iraq War is the most important issue to me — it’s that it’s a very measurable benchmark in relation to the claim that biblical belief prevents undesirable consequences in politics in the modern age.

Google search on site:www.christianparty.org.uk/ iraq yields nothing.

But the Christian Peoples Alliance gets articles like this:

Speaking tomorrow at an anti-Iraq war rally in Newham, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, the Leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance party, Councillor Alan Craig, will say that grassroots Christian activists in Britain must demonstrate their passion for peace and justice and show that politically active Christians are not only on the Religious Right. Having addressed 500 people outside BBC Television Centre in protest against blasphemy, Alan Craig will now call on the 50,000 people who complained to the BBC over ‘Jerry Springer – the Opera’ to campaign with equal enthusiasm on wider ethical issues such as peace-making, the ‘Make Poverty History campaign’, tackling economic and environmental exploitation and pressure for international trade justice.

Aha! I remember something about that Jerry Springer: The Opera campaign.

Turns out they got very annoyed with people taking the mickey out of their mythological world-view, and got out and did something.

One thing led to another, and now several years later it’s morphed into a political party with 1.7% of the vote.

Politics will continue to be strange until normal people start getting more involved.

Here’s one of their leaflets: