Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

And Rosta wrote:
>
> Christophe Grandsire:
> > > What? You have the Natural Law Party too? I thought we had it only
> > > in France. In France it never does more than 1% in any elections we
> > > have, which is still a lot in my opinion for a group which is
> > > registered in France as a "dangerous sectarian group", that's to
> > > say as a sect.
>
> My mother stood for parliament in the last general election as a
> candidate for the Natural Law Party. IIRC, she got less than 1% of
> the votes in her constituency, but at any rate, she certainly isn't
> dangerous; she is wholly safe & presents no risk to society.
>
> As I recall, the anglosaxon countries were the least fazed by the
> Natural Law Party, and the most hostile was Germany.
I'd have to agree with this. In Canada the Natural Law party is seen as
more of a joke than anything else by the general public.

I've noticed, looking at the election platforms of all the parties that
have absolutely no chance of ever getting a seat in parliament, that
they all way proportional representation for Parliament in Canada - 1%
of the vote for the whole country means 1% of the seats in parliament. I
can't help but think that the only want this because that's the only way
they have a chance of winning a seat - with 301 seats in Parliament, and
around 30,000,000 people in Canada, you only need about 100,000 votes to
win a seat.

I'm opposed to that idea, for reasons I won't go into right now...
unless you want me to.

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Robert