Comment by foldr
18 hours ago
You can’t seriously be suggesting that a political party that most Brits haven’t even heard of has any chance of winning the next election.
18 hours ago
You can’t seriously be suggesting that a political party that most Brits haven’t even heard of has any chance of winning the next election.
"an election" (what you wrote first time) != "the next election" (what you write now).
Next-but-one, perhaps. Although even for the next one, everyone's so weak I'd only put mild odds against them.
I don't want them to win ever*, but failing to plan is planning to fail, and there's big money getting involved here, and the UK political system still hasn't caught up with the impact of social networks and foreign influence through them at all.
And one of those social networks is run by someone who sees no problem calling for civil war in the UK, though he's currently supporting one of the other "I wish it was a joke party" parties.
* Although I can also say that about Reform, where, if I still lived in the UK, if my options were them or the actual literal Monster Raving Loony Party, I'd pick the latter. Then again, that doesn't say much as I'd pick the Monster Raving Loony Party over the Conservatives, too.
I think it goes without saying that things can change unexpectedly in the longer run, but this party simply isn’t a factor in national politics at present.