Make The Far Right And Far Left Viable

How would it be possible to make the far right and far left into viable parties in the UK? I mean possibly like UKIP/Liberal Democrats, having seats at the very least.

POD is 1950.
 
Depending on your definition, they already do in the form of the DUP on the far right and Sinn Féin and Respect on the far left.
 
Well, its already happened in the United States.

Its called the Tea Party.

I am thinking of the UK here.

What makes UKIP far-right? Euro-scepticism isn't a hallmark of the far-right only.

I meant far right and far left as in BNP and communists, that direction.

I think he meant make extremist parties get at least as large as UKIP or the LibDems, I guess.

With seats in Parliament as well.
 
What about having Enoch Powell start a party ( yes I know he was acctually quite liberal) Maybe it could be called the Britian First party. He leaves the Conservatives makes his own Party and wins back his seat
 
I was thinking BNP and Communists to be honest, that direction really.

Well the Communist had seats in 1950, although lost both in the General Election that year. If they focused on holding their existing seats rather than extending their outreach (they stood five times as many candidates than in 1945) they might have been able to hold west fife, but it would have been close at best. The beginning of the Cold War really crippled the party.

In terms of racists, the NF was doing well in the seventies for a brief time. Had they prevented entryism by the Greater Britain Movement (out and out Nazis) they would have been more preferable to the electorate, especially if they had a popular figure behind them.

Although I can't see either ever taking power, or even coming close to the level of the Liberal Democrats barring some national economic disaster. The best is successful entryism into the Conservatives or Labour, such as the League of Empire Loyalists or Militant Tendency respectively.
 
IMO the UKs been pretty far right for the past few decades (thanks Mr Murdoch). Perhaps if the fringe parties could consolidate themselves into larger parties that might help. For example at the last election (I think it might have been the Scottish parlaiment, I'm not sure) there were 3 different parties on my ballot with socialist in their titles. Not very sensible and I don't think any of them got more than a couple of votes :rolleyes:. If there'd been only one I'd have considered it instead of SNP.
The problem is these types of less mainstream parties tend to argue about things like how many angels can dance on a pinhead and then fragment. They'd be better off lobbying the big fish or better still joining them and bringing some change from within.
 
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