Single Issue Political Parties?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

What's your opinion of them? Are they completely redundant or does it depend on the issue / campaign?
Thinking of these guys in partcular:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18077009

Can 'Save NHS' party make an impact at the ballot box?

Doctors and other medics opposed to the NHS reforms are setting up a political party. What are they hoping to achieve?
Dr Richard Taylor still has the appetite for a political scrap.
The hospital doctor turned-independent-MP has just agreed to become co-leader of the National Health Action Party.
He is one of a number of senior medical figures who believe the health service is heading in the wrong direction and are prepared to enter the political fray to try and do something about it.

[nomad05273k]

This is ridiculous, do they actually expect people other than doctors to vote for them? What are their other policies?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

This is ridiculous, do they actually expect people other than doctors to vote for them? What are their other policies?

Having trouble finding a site or some resource to elaborate on what their other policies are...if there are any.
Might be similiar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Kidderminster_Hospital_and_Health_Conc ern
but again their non-NHS policies are not forth coming

[Blanquist]

i think its a good idea to create several single issue parties, and have them under the control of the real socialist party

single issues like housing for all, or, free education for all, etc. use those parties to lure people into accepting socialist positions

this only works if the parties are under direct control of a socialist party

like 'front' organizations, so to speak

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

i think its a good idea to create several single issue parties, and have them under the control of the real socialist party

single issues like housing for all, or, free education for all, etc. use those parties to lure people into accepting socialist positions

this only works if the parties are under direct control of a socialist party

like 'front' organizations, so to speak

So, you're not really in favour of single-parties, only 'front' organisations for a socialist party...
A little dishonest or deceptive, no?

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

So, you're not really in favour of single-parties, only 'front' organisations for a socialist party...
A little dishonest or deceptive, no?
Electoral politics tend to be just that. Not that I´m particularly fond of "front" tactics.

[Angry Young Man]

Single-issue electoral campaigns are particularly redundant in the UK because of its electoral system.

As for single-issue campaign groups, they're a bit of a waste as well. If you take one campaign, say enironmentalism, in isolation, you lose sight of everything else and thereby miss the very cause of your own campaigning issue. Much better to join an anti-capitalist organisation with a particular interest in the environment where you learn to understand the cause of environmental destruction in relation to the other dangers of capitalism and also ensure that your group's environmental campaigns are up-to-date.

[Angry Young Man]

So, you're not really in favour of single-parties, only 'front' organisations for a socialist party...
A little dishonest or deceptive, no?

The truth outs eventually. YFJE has been accused as a Socialist Party front (well, an SWP front, because Chris Grayling's an ignorant cretin) because it was set up by Socialist Party members. Yes, the majority of the YFJE are SP, yes we use it to recruit, but the primary purpose is to encourage activism after a long era of apathy.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

I agree that single-issue parties stand no chance with first-past-the-post..and in any case, if they have no other policies or ideas, if they gained a reasonable number of seats under a diff system, who knows what they would do, if anything.

I know every political party wants to recruit and engage by any means it can (as a former SP member, there was many a Saturday morning stall with papers to sell and leaflets to hand out). So long as they're not using 'front' single issue groups as an underhand way of getting support (like the fucking BNP using a group called 'Mums Against Pedophiles' to recruit and drum up support for them)