Vote SDP - for long overdue reform of Britain's constitution and political system
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- "The main parties are out of touch, and there is a chasm between the electorate and those who represent us."
Sebastian Moore, SDP candidate for Manchester Central, outlines three changes the SDP would implement right away to strengthen democracy in our political system.
The SDP is a patriotic, economically left-leaning, and culturally traditional political party.
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Fantastic. Vote SDP on the fourth of July.
Priorities for this election
1. Get EVERYONE out to vote - even if they spoil their ballots
2. Get candidates in the press to start educating the public & countering the narrative
3. Start uniting
This our last chance & these are the bricks that we will use over the next 5 years to build a real resistance to rewrite our future for the following election.
Hope SDP will be in London next Saturday.
I'd so vote SDP if there's a candidate.
What is your constituency?
@@sebastianmooresdp Tiverton and Minehead
@@DorotheaAntonio Sorry, not much outside of Bristol in the south west. You could join the party.
Well put together video.
Yes, yes and yes! This is a breath of fresh air, especially at the moment with the usual suspects promising us the world if we vote for them again. I really hope to see the SDP gain significant ground at this general election. Good luck to all who stand
Awesome stuff.
Please field more candidates for Scottish constituencies.
Nice city centre there
Bravo Sebastian. Well presented and engaging. I'm an SDP member but living in a constituency without an SDP candidate. Unfortunately I'm not free to stand myself...
Agree with the three mentioned. Here's three more:
1. Make polling day a national holiday/make voting mandatory.
2. Vote for policies not people/parties. Then the best candidates that can fulfil those policies are put in place. (How's an education minister then become the health minister for example, surely no correlation).
3. Public funds should be visible to the public live so we can see where our money is spent ourselves.
No mention of immigration, no mention of tackling the shortcomings of the open market and free trade absolutism. Nothing about nationalising essential utilities or reforming the education system to prioritise education over ideological proselytising.
You can't mention everything in one short video.
@ullscarf but those are the things that seem to matter most, from the many people I've spoken too and I would have thought, to the SDP, given the comments by William and other members.
Where then, does this soft touch. Safe play, come from?
If the SDP wants to be taken seriously, they need to tackle the serious issues upfront and foremost.
This is not a winning platform upon which to run their campaign.
The issues you list are all addressed in the party's policy document, The End of Indifference.
@danielw5850 how many people have read the policy document for the SDP? I have. But most haven't and will not. Hell, most people wont have read the policy documents for the big two. If you are relying on people going out of their way to read such, you dont understand people.
If you want to reach people, if you want to hook them, you have to lead with something that matters more than... this.
Lest it seems like indifference is all you have. I think the SDP are afraid to seem too radical and too reactionary in mainstream media and so that is why we are getting this benign drivel about fringe concerns. There is too much risk in bolder statements.
Pretty poor show. Just look at the lack of reach and engagement this video has achieved compared to other fringe parties. I love the SDP but they seriously need to learn how to play politics and focus their finite resources on things that people really care about, things that would make a difference to their lives. Election campaigns have begun and as a subscriber to this channel, this is the only video that has been presented to me to like and share. Amy Gallagher's TH-cam campaign for London mayor was brilliant and really raised the profile of the SDP and highlighted the different priorities of the SDP compared to other parties. More like these please.
Bit niche. Don’t disagree but this ain’t it guys.
Listen the last thing we need is more bureaucratic layers & that’s all an English Parliament would be. Plus the Internal Market Act hamstrung devolved assemblies out of any relevancy so it’s really just an unnecessary gimmick.
The only sensible compromise would be to have a project to rebalance the country away from London & have a roving Parliament that sat & conducted business in each Nation on rotation, including in an English one.
Everyone agrees that reform of the infrastructure & culture of how politcal business needs to he done but not how.
Labour in any case have a plan to complete their vandalising constitutional rewrite when they get it.
We will need a very considered restoration campaign once we get them out again.
What kind of PR is the SDP in favour of. It would seem some of the more reasonable voting systems available such as AMS (MMP) keeping the constituency link are not fully proportional. As someone who will probably vote SDP, I still think its reasonable that a party on 45% and well ahead of its rivals can form a small majority, as long as all the parties aren't deprived of any seats by FTP
I wish I could vote SDP, I've heard nothing about a candidate standing in my constituency, want to vote for you so bad, as well as multiple others I know who do too.
Is this a serious election campaign launch? Are these really things that the average voter is interested in? Nice presentation but I would question the choice of policy items to focus on.
Here are my 3 ways:
1. Make education in critical thinking, rhetoric and philosophy compulsory in schools for over 11s
2. Implement a system of proportional representation
3. End mass migration to the United Kingdom
Upon reflection, what this is saying, is that the SDP want to turn the UK into a European Union writ small?
I prefer first past the post though. I don't like the kind of back room dealing that PR entails.
Yes PR always gives the same coalition government with minor shifts & compromise between the composite parties.
& PR will give legitimacy to an explicitly Islamic party & given the outcome of PR always being Coalition Governments will make them kingmakers extracting concessions each & every round as they continue to grow their demographic & political power.
It would have been a good idea to have a PR level of government back before the demographic change impact of mass immigration but until that's reversed it is folly to make this change.
Has SDP policy changed on the House of Lords? I thought SDP policy was to abolish the Lords?
Yes, reform, not abolition.
The only other country in Europe to use FPTP is Belarus....and some countries which use a form of PR for their legislatures are Iran, Iraq and China. If enough people vote for a party in any democracy, they'll win the election. Stop trying to jerrymander the system into giving you more power and try winning it democratically, like Labour did.
Yes, it's an outrage that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have parliaments and England doesn't but I'm not sure the answer is more b****y politicians. Why not just exclude 'foreign' MPs from Westminster when purely English matters are being discussed?
Wanted to like this but the ideas aren't great and the presenter's arguments are even worse ("lol just look at Belarus bro")
Proportional representation might be a good idea, but you’re not seriously going to make that the centrepiece of your offering to the British people at this election, are you?
An English Parliament is a good idea if you support English independence.But it’s not a good idea if you support the union, which I think the SDP does. Anyone can see that an English parliament will lead to the break up of the UK in about five minutes. What keeps the UK in existence is the fact that most English people have a dual identity - English and British. Create an English parliament and that will become the focus of the English peoples loyalty.
Agreed. I think the goal should be reversing devolution and reforming the UK overall.
Proportional Representation has to be one of the central ideas for any party that's not Labour or Conservative. The smaller parties are all hurt very badly by FPTP and simply cannot get any power without first having PR implemented.
@J1mston the desire for meaningful alternatives is rife. The number of people that will vote for Labour in the coming election, not because Labour has winning policies or personalities but because they aren't the Tories is substantial.
The other parties need to present meaningfully different alternatives to the big two, which have become a pseudo uni-party in terms of policy.
It is for the likes of the SDP and Reform, et al, to really demonstrate that they are different from the establishment parties and to seek by all means, to breakthrough. Never has the time been more apt for an upsetting of the duopoly that Labour and the Conservatives hold over Westminster.
Reform are making some headway, I'm no fan of their economic policies but they are making noise. The SDP on the other hand... not so much.
@@toffeecrisp2146 The SDP have a much smaller budget and platform than Reform and yet they’ve made some headways particularly in Leeds with councillors. They also managed to double their number of votes in S.Yorkshires mayoral election again, that’s in spite of such a small platform. What we are seeing is that once people learn about the SDP they like what they hear and they support them.
The trouble is that on the main platform, the House of Commons, because of FPTP it is near impossible for a party the size of the SDP to get a foot in the door and as such it’s impossible to spread their message on the platform.
To be frank as well, Reform have their platform in part for being/inheriting a look of an unserious party who exists purely to be a protest vote on the right. SDP does not want to give off an air of unseriousness, they want to maintain their position as a sensible party with sensible policy and sensible ideals.
@J1mston and I can appreciate that the SDP is operating with much smaller budgets and resources. Which is why it is so important that they focus those resources into the right concerns. Lest they cast too wide a net, with too ephemeral an appeal and squander the opportunity the moment presents and the resources they do have.
An English parliament is making of the UK, a mini EU, with England playing the role of France and Germany both. With a PR voting system that would be decidedly continental.
That is the position they wish to take? The words "Crash and Burn" come to mind.
Your party is irrelevant
Everyone has to start somewhere. We are gaining more members. We have councillors in Leeds.