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Originally Posted by SuperiorSteve
I just wanted for people to work together. I was thinking of a coalition so if we get enough votes between us we can take control a Council
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That's the general idea with coalitions and alliances - to get some people elected and so push forward those policies the allies have in common!
Now it has more policies, UKIP is no longer just a single issue party, but the downside is that its policies position it pretty firmly in what was formerly right wing Tory territory. Therefore some people (me for instance) won't support it because while we agree with UKIP's approach to the EU we find some of the other stuff too right wing. However, we can support the Liberals or the Greens. Therefore an alliance of those three parties could unite eurosceptics from across the political spectrum from the centre left all the way over to the right including Thatcherites, Libertarians and traditionalist Tories. As well as euroscepticism, the parties all agree on opposing ID cards and other security-state legislation. On other issues they differ, and the voter can take his/her choice.
To see several parties squabbling over those voters who are more rightwing than the Tories isn't going to worry Labour or the LibDems at all and isn't really a huge problem for Cameron. But the sort of alliance that Steve is talking about could seriously scare all the mainstream parties.