[GOP Progressive]

Would you like to see a US-UK scenario but for Congress? I was thinking of combining the House and Senate together and put RL Senators and Congresspersons as party leaders. What do you guys think?

Ideally I'd like 6 parties at maximum, but I can do 8.

So they would be:

Labour
Conservative
Lib-Dem
UKIP
Green
BNP
(RESPECT)
(Independents)

[GOP Progressive]

here are some good issues:

Abortion
Afghanistan
Deficit
Economic Recovery
Energy
Environment
Free Trade
Gun Control
Healthcare Reform
Immigration
Iran
Jobs
Military
Obama Administration
Same-Sex Marriage
Schools and Universities
Tax Cuts
Unions

[RobertFK]

GOP Progressive, on 05 November 2009 - 05:43 PM, said:

here are some good issues:

Abortion
Afghanistan
Deficit
Economic Recovery
Energy
Environment
Free Trade
Gun Control
Healthcare Reform
Immigration
Iran
Jobs
Military
Obama Administration
Same-Sex Marriage
Schools and Universities
Tax Cuts
Unions

I agree with all of those except "Obama Adminstration". Remember, it's 2008, so it should be "Bush Adminstration".

[Treasurer of the PC]

GOP Progressive, on 05 November 2009 - 03:35 PM, said:

Would you like to see a US-UK scenario but for Congress? I was thinking of combining the House and Senate together and put RL Senators and Congresspersons as party leaders. What do you guys think?

Ideally I'd like 6 parties at maximum, but I can do 8.

So they would be:

Labour
Conservative
Lib-Dem
UKIP
Green
BNP
(RESPECT)
(Independents)

You could be more flexible, say a Libertarian/Constitution candidate representing UKIP or a Reform candidate representing Labour or Lib Dem, but it depends on how you think the UK parties should be tweaked to be more US-friendly and elected senators/congresspersons only. Also, on the topic of how the parties would fare in the states. I agree it can't be realistic, there would be a large swathe of disenchanted Republican voters and nobody would vote Lib Dem, the leftist of the 3. The Conservatives would always win thanks to mainly Democrat voters, Labour would be way behind on even or below UKIP or the BNP. If you tweak the history/culture of the parties, then by all means you can exaggerate it to something on par. Think of the demographics who might vote for the particular tweaked parties? Maybe it would be best to sort out a state by state breakdown roughly of how the parties would fare.

[GOP Progressive]

Ah, well I'm thinking of having RL American politicians lead the parties, unless you guys would want to just make up candidates...

And, I'm thinking the Conservatives will be closer to say the mainstream wing of the Republican Party while the UKIP represents the libertarian wing of the GOP and the BNP represents the Constitution Party, Minutemen, Extreme social conservatives, and Paleoconservatives.

The Labour Party will be the pro-labor Democrats (which includes both progressives and populists) while the Lib-Dems will be the pro-business Democrats (think the "New Democrats"). The Greens would be equivalent to the extreme left-wing of the Progressive caucus and the USA Green, Socialist, Peace and Freedom and other far-left Parties.

Putting in RESPECT would be redundant with the Greens, and I'd rather have 6 instead of 7 parties.