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What a delightful post!

It is a little sad that the Blue Revolution defines working people as 'people who live partially off benefits instead of off their work'.

If £100bn is the wrong amount of money to give to Ukraine, what's the right amount? (Personally I'm be more intrested in a party saying they're going to build some ammunition factories and start shipping serious quantities of shells and bullets to Ukraine than in any specific sum, but then I always prefer plans to targets.)

The Fairer Voting Party's system is original and elegant (at least, the bit where their vote in parliament depends on the number of people who voted for them is. Everything else about their system including the 'more than double the number of MPs part' I'm not so keen on). I think the whips could handle the different vote sizes with a simple spreadsheet though.

Freedom Party: what are social credit scores and does anyone other than China use them at the moment?

The Save Us Now party has some seriously odd choices about which words deserve capital letters. My favourite is the 'And' midsentence.

I had no idea there were so many people worried about 5G. I wonder what has set them all off, and if it was on YouTube.

Corrections:

"deposite" has a bonus e.

"they stand for far more interesting than that" is missing something :-)

"as’part of the problem’" is missing a space after 'as'.

"Plus, we often care as much about what we want not to happen as to how we do." 'how' should probably be 'what'.

bid od -> bit odd

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Thank you for the corrections!

I'm not aware of any country other than China that uses social credit scores.

Though they don't say it outright, the Fairer Voting Party appears to have halved the number of constituencies (they have 64 'independent' constituencies, each covering 4 ordinary constituencies; if each elects 2 MPs that would be 660 MPs, so only a little more than now).

I agree that building factories with lots of ammunition to send to Ukraine would be more compelling than a number. No strong views on the number, but given we're giving about £3bn a year currently, and our entire defence budget is only £50bn, £100bn feels a just a little unrealistic. Still, I'm here for any party whose 'out there idea' is 'let's massively up our support for Ukraine' rather than 'let's destroy all the 5G masts'.

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