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They coalesced as a party during the EU referendum, much like how the SNP did during the independence referendum. Backlash against the Tories - mostly for the economic downturn that takes place in this wikibox's future combined with unpopular spending cuts - helped them along the rest of the way.
The turnout was depressed because there was a strong urge to kick out the Conservative Party, but no opposition party had a plausible chance of winning a parliamentary majority according to the polls and the papers. Many middle class, Middle England voters who voted Conservative in the last election didn't find Labour, UKIP, or the Liberal Democrats to be a credible alternative, and thus simply didn't show up.
Why not? They have the "social" in their name so they're definitely left-wing.
Just google the Social Credit Party, spend a few minutes reading about them and come back to us
And the CSU. And the SDP of Brazil. And the SCP of Brazil. All totally left wing outfits.
I thought they were like centrist, being Labour's right and all?
Though that does not necessarily mean they were leftist.
That's what we were talking about, weren't we? Non-left-wing parties.
Of course, the SDP is a confusing name in itself, with social democracy a general term for moderate democratic socialism.
Hey buddy, you ever heard of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazis? Yep. They weren't left-wing.
Their economic policy sure was. These -wing labels mean little and as the Nazis demonstrate, one can be very economically left-wing and very racist and nationalist (right-wing stuff).
They weren't really economically left-wing, the Nazis used whatever economic ideas worked for a time period, they used left and right ideas; they didn't care.
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