From pirates to a pub landlord, the fringe parties looking for votes in the UK general election — mashable.com

LONDON — Pirates, anti-feminists and a mock-xenophobic pub landlord who wants to exile London Mayor Boris Johnson to his own island are just some of the choices that await British voters when they head to the polls in May. Since they backed a Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in 2010, voters have shown they were willing to look past the decades of two-party, two-horse campaigns. In the years since that election we've seen parties, such as the Greens and UKIP, which were previously described as being in the fringes, come in from the cold to take their places alongside the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats for the televised seven-way leaders' debate.

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