UK 2005 Election numbers

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Yes. The lost deposits in Wales were both in Blaenau Gwent, where Lib Dem and Conservative voters voted strategically against Labour and for Independent Peter Law. The Lib Dems won 4.3% and the Conservatives 2.4%. (Blaenau Gwent is historically the strongest Labour seat in the country; Peter Law won a large majority, died in 2006 and was replaced in a by-election by another socialist Independent, Dai Davies.) The Conservative lost deposit in Scotland was Na h-Eileanan an Iar, where the Christian Vote Party outperformed the Conservatives, winning 7.6% to the Conservatives' 4.4%. The lost deposits in NI were because the Conservatives have this delusion that they can still be competitive there.

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Well, maybe some of the more rational Kippers (UKIP) can form a party with that POV.

Granted. The UKIP isn't for local control, and the BNP wants to reunify with Ireland.

But there might be 20 or so "local control" conservatives out there.

I think PC and SNP are also both liberal parties.

The SNP is an interesting case; it's definitely left-wing, but it tends to churn a lot with the Conservatives (which makes no sense to me, given that they're polar opposites). In 2003 and 2005, they were forced to run a bit further to the left than usual because of the Scottish Socialist Party, but the SSP has imploded and is unlikely to win more than one seat in 2007 Scottish election and be irrelevant by the next Westminster election.

Plaid Cymru basically just runs in opposition to whatever Labour advocates, but usually by being further to the left than Labour.

I've never encountered a right-wing separatist party in Europe. They all seem to be social democrats or farther left.

The lost deposits in NI were because the Conservatives have this delusion that they can still be competitive there.

Whatever you can blame the Tories for. I don't think any Conservative is under the delusion that they can be a competitive electoral force in NI.

Probably not, but they certainly seem determined to run candidates there. Couldn't they just endorse the UUP like the LDs endorse the Alliance?