THE AGE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IS OVER

[stalwart]

The age of political parties is over. They once represented their electorate, but the people no longer matter. Politicians’ only concern now is serving a single totalitarian agenda and ensuring its complete political supremacy. Their pretence at democracy is purposefully to deceive us until the EU finally abolishes Westminster, when Britain’s destruction will be complete.



Any party fighting for or promising an EU referendum is a deliberate EU distraction as no such consultation can ever be permitted. Do not be fooled. Immaculate suits and Queen’s English do not bring truth or sincerity. Only the theatre of vanity and damned lies.



But the people have a right to self governance. We need only take it back. We should stop believing the lies, sack the political parties for independent representation that reflects our true wishes and retake control of our country for our purposes, not others’.



It is not difficult. But we should use our will to take back the country that is ours.

[Sid]

Well you are right to some degree, but it's not just the UK that is behaving like this, what you must understand is that we are very close to WW3 and governments in Europe are heavily preparing for that to start early in 2013.
The last thing heads of state want to care for are the public, we are all cannon fodder mate.

[kris914]

For more than twenty years Michael F. Holt has been considered one of the leading specialists in the political history of the United States. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln is a collection of some of his more important shorter studies on the politics of nineteenth-century America. The collection focuses on the mass political parties that emerged in the 1820s and their role in broader political developments from that decade to 1865. Holt includes essays on the Democratic, Antimasonic, Whig, and Know Nothing parties, as well as one on Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the congressional wing of the Republican party during the Civil War. Almost all the essays touch on the broad question of the role of partisan politics in explaining the outbreak of the war. Individual essays address the following questions as well: What explains the birth and death of powerful third parties? What was the relationship among economic conditions, party performance in office (especially legislative performance), and the mobilization of an unprecedented number of voters between 1836 and 1840? Why did the Whigs find it necessary to nominate military hero Zachary Taylor as their presidential candidate in 1848? What explains the death of the Whig party? What role did ethnoreligious issues and the Know Nothing party play in the realignment of the 1850s and the ultimate triumph of the Republican party "Walkera"? In what ways did the continuation of two-party competition after 1860 help the North win the Civil War? Most of the essays have been published previously over a twenty-year span, but there are also two new pieces. "The Mysterious Disappearance of the American Whig Party," originally delivered as the Commonwealth Fund Lecture at University College London in February, 1990, seeks to explain why the Whig party died in the 1850s. This essay contrasts the fate of the Whig party with the fates of the Republican party in the 1930s and 1970s and the British Conservative party in the 1840s and 1850s--parties that survived similar, indeed graver, challenges than those to which the Whigs succumbed. In addition, Holt has written an excellent introduction in which he explains how he came to write the essays and reflects upon them in light of the current state of political history as a discipline. Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln offers provocative insights into both the history of nineteenth-century politics and the way it is studied.

[patsy]

Welcome to the forum, and a very good first post too, please keep it up, always good to read those type of posts on here, enjoy the forum.
Patsy
Surrey.