No worries, I just (and do mean just) moved the main three political parties news articles to another site, so it was a valid question as an hour or so ago they were hosted on this site.
I moved the political news as it wasn’t generating any debate (I posted them for debating) and as they aren’t generating debate they were taking up space on the menu that made it harder to find posts visitors are commenting on (or new posts they might want to comment on under recent articles).
The reason I didn’t add the BNP news or UKIP and the Green party is two fold.
1st it takes quite a bit of time scouring the news pages of the parties sites, copying and pasting etc… and if I added the BNP news I’d also for fairness have to add UKIP and the Green party (at least double my work load).
As a side note all the political parties have missed a trick on their news RSS feeds, they all have an excerpt of their news rather than the full news articles. Most webmasters prefer to give an excerpt version of their articles so scraper scripts (copying the RSS feeds) can’t copy their entire site automatically. But with a political party that wants their news spread around, having an excerpt RSS feed makes it harder for others to fully syndicate their news. If all the parties had full RSS news feeds I could setup automated posting of news in about 5 minutes.
2nd there’s only three parties (Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems) currently that have any hope next year of being seriously involved in forming a government and if it’s not a hung parliament (or close result) the Lib Dems will be (like right now) powerless to do anything serious.
And so even though the BNP/UKIP/Greens post valuable news items, it’s a lot of work keeping it all up to date and as things stand those three parties won’t have much say after the next general election.
I know some of the BNP supporters here believe the BNP will do really well in the 2010 general election, but history tells us it takes a LONG time for a new political party to work it’s way into power under our first past the post voting system. You just have to look at the Lib Dems with just 60 MPs in 2005 despite gaining 22% of the popular vote!
If proportional representation was in place, with almost 650 parliamentary seats they should have closing on 150 MP’s right now (probably more as more might vote for them if they knew their vote counted, I know I’d consider it).
David
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