What is your constituency?

@@sebastianmooresdp Tiverton and Minehead

@@DorotheaAntonio Sorry, not much outside of Bristol in the south west. You could join the party.

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 KZfaq 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.

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.

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.

Yes, reform, not abolition.

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.

Everyone has to start somewhere. We are gaining more members. We have councillors in Leeds.