Luke Akehurst points to "four or five way fights where the winning party only needs 25% of the vote" in this look at the Greens from a Labour perspective: http://labourlist.org/2014/10/we-must-not-make-the-same-mistake-with-the-greens-that-we-did-with-the-lib-dems/
It is quite likely that Labour will decline to a pressure group party.
It reminds me of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the way the United States became by default the only "superpower".
For all their troubles, post 2015 the Conservatives may well be the only super-party, surrounded by middle-ranking pressure group parties (and Labour is just a coalition of four or five interest groups, as mark Ferguson points out).
It is quite likely that Labour will decline to a pressure group party.
It reminds me of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the way the United States became by default the only "superpower".
For all their troubles, post 2015 the Conservatives may well be the only super-party, surrounded by middle-ranking pressure group parties (and Labour is just a coalition of four or five interest groups, as mark Ferguson points out).
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