The main British political parties, and why they suck.

I have so far gathered this much about the main political parties in England:

Conservative Party (Tories) – A bunch of old, money-loving, socially detached fatcats working in the interests of big business and corporations. Voted for by snooty, middle/upper class white folk and old people.

Labour Party – Left-wing socialist party with ironically biased ‘equality’ regimes. Middle/high-income white men beware. Voted for by the working class and ethnic minorities.

Liberal Democrats – Progressive and idealistic, but without any backbone or a sense of pragmatism. They tend to lie and make false promises. Voted for by young people and the politically ‘enlightened’.

Also:

The Green Party - Eco-freaks and hippies out for a greener, gayer world. Voted for by hippies, tree-huggers, and the good people of Brighton.

British National Party (BNP) - Fourth Reich, anyone? Voted for by skinheads, racists, homophobes, and Neo-Nazies

UK Independence Party (UKIP) - A slightly more cynical conservative party consisting mostly of Tory turncoats who really, really hate the EU. Voted for by closet racists, climate change deniers, and the cynically inclined.

Is that about right? Who do you support?

Do you work for the government by any chance?

I don't mean this offensively, I just see you defend a lot of the Conservative policies on here.

Labour is no longer the 'poor man's' party, as mentioned before. Alas, no respectable mildly socialist party is out there; they'd have my vote.

Your generalisations of the political parties is mostly false. The main reason why mainstream politics "suck" is that it is mainly dominated by two parties who are both quite near to each other on the political spectrum. Your choice is really between one centre-right party and another. Labour have not been socialist for a loooong time and never will be again, they cling onto that identity to score political points from socialists who think they're voting for far more equal economic policies. In truth Labour believe in a free market economy just as much as the tories and were more than complicit in creating the unbalanced economy of the U.K in which money is gravitated to the banking and finance sectors and to London.

Greens are pretty socialist.

I'm vaguely aware of what the Greens want but since their main issue is climate change, I have an issue with that. Indeed, beeing environmentally concerned is a noble cause to be espoused; however I think that their policy to rapidly expand into green energy would be bad for businesses and the public - prices on energy would rise drastically, for example... But that's just my opinion based on my understanding of their aims (however limited)