Poll results including Green Parties

[The Bishop]

Dec 5, 2013 18:30:04 GMT greenchristian said:

Dec 5, 2013 18:13:14 GMT The Bishop said:

I would say the low number of parliamentary by-elections the Greens have contested recently is even more telling.

There really should be an aim to stand a candidate, however token, in every GB vacancy as a matter of principle. When did UKIP last leave one uncontested?

I think that speaks more to our lack of money than anything else. UKIP have a number of very wealthy donors, we don't. Therefore, even before their poll surge, they could easily afford to lose their deposits. And now, with that increased level of base support, their deposit is more likely to be safe. For us, it's £500 we're unlikely to retain, and it might be quite a big drain on the local party in question's resources.

One could maybe propose a fund maintained centrally for that purpose, then? I do think it is a significant factor in your relative lack of visibility.

Pete - not talking about local elections here

[froome]

Thanks for starting this thread Devonian. It has always frustrated me that polling reports rarely mention our proportion. However, it obviously needs to be remembered that regular polls are normally talking about how people will vote in a general election, where our vote is always suppressed by the FPTP system, so cannot necessarily be taken as a measure of how people may vote in other elections.