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Holden Caulfield
1st July 2008, 22:28
any info on these chaps?

Sugar Hill Kevis
1st July 2008, 22:31
If they're the ones I'm thinking of, they're slightly more centrist than the other nationalist parties... In terms of economics anyway.

They obviously take quite right wing/nationalist stances on europe, immigration and such. But in terms of economics they're probably on par with the lib dems - unlike other far right groups such as UKIP who promote laissez faire capitalism or the BNP/NF whose economic policy actually draws slightly upon socialism in terms of workers cooperatives and union rights.

I think they have a handful of councillors, but aren't well represented, even for a fringe party.

Demogorgon
1st July 2008, 22:33
Conservative party with mild English-Nationalism. Want to give England a Parliament equivalent to the Scottish Parliament. Entirely irrelevant.

Kurt Crover
1st July 2008, 22:37
I've never heard of them and I'm in England...where did you hear about them? Sounds a load of old tweed clad moustached Earl Grey drinking jizzheads to me. And I'm just going on the name!

Holden Caulfield
1st July 2008, 22:37
one stood in a recent election up here apparently, didnt know myself til i got the election details e-mailed to me

so not fash? more like Tories?

bloody_capitalist_sham
1st July 2008, 22:38
They are split into two factions. A centre right and a centre left. The centre right is a tory party which isn't quite so conservative on social issues, but really hates social welfare. The centre left is from the old social democratic party in the 80's. It meant the labour party had to shift to the right and transform into New Labour.

Colonello Buendia
2nd July 2008, 16:08
a quick google search leads directly to their site and Wiki page, from what I read they advocate recognition of the traditional counties(unifiying Yorkshire, more independence for Cornwall etc) and they advocate governments on a Swiss model. they do have nationalist tendencies and I don't think they're fans of Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland. unsurprisingly they also hate the EU. I wouldn't be too concerned though they seem like a break off bunch of Tories pushing "Little england" to new extremes. They're definitely not allies of the workers but having said that nor do they try to be.