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Old 25-04-2008, 07:27 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Agreed! I don't believe in a one issue protest party such as the Referendum Party. Equally I don't believe the route of winning local elections first, the Lib dems are expert at this and they're going nowhere. In my opinion, Yes we have to have policies but not reams of them, (you can't be all things to all men) but the essential thing that must be hammered home is that no party can implement their own policies whilst Britain remains a member of the EU!
On the other hand, if instead of protest party's we pursue something more like a proper party with a full platform is likely to alienate many anti-EU people simply because they don't like the party's other polices. Specifically the left or right leaning people will have problems if the party takes a stand to the left or right. So it is a catch-22 in some ways.

Perhaps the answer is to form powerful lobby and citizen's groups at the grass-level. Or to allow individual candidates to decide upon their other policies depending on where they are standing.
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