I guess the "any party ..." construction is used by all parties to mean "us and anybody bigger". Because smaller parties really ought to be ignored anyway.
Labour and the Tories do it to us, we do it to the Greens, the Greens do it to a thousand other parties. It's not meant to be fair, just competitive.
Re: "Any party," my arse ;-)
Labour and the Tories do it to us, we do it to the Greens, the Greens do it to a thousand other parties. It's not meant to be fair, just competitive.