Political parties in the UK
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- Created on: 19-05-19 09:09
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- Political Parties in the UK
- Plaid Cymru
- Welsh National Party
- Decentralisation of power
- 'Community socialism'- welfare funding
- Welsh independence = future view
- Liberal Democrats
- Liberalism = personal freedom, toleration and limited government
- Under Nick Clegg
- Constitutional reform - electoral reform
- Protection of civil liberties
- 2017 election manifesto
- 1p in pound tax raise
- Ban sale of diesel cars by 2025
- Invest £7bn in education
- Second EU referendum
- Conservative
- One Nation Tory
- Associated with David Cameron - centrist policies
- Preservation of traditional principles - liberal social policy
- Benefiting 'the common man'
- David Cameron's Marriage (same sex couples) Act 2013
- Slow, gradual change
- eg. current conservative policy - increased NHS and education spending
- Thatcherism
- Roll back frontiers of the state
- Privatisation - small government
- Free market
- Opposition to trade unions
- Property ownership eg. Right to Buy Housing Act 1980
- Deregulation - no state intervention
- 2017 election manifesto
- Increased NHS and education spending
- Cutting net migration
- Scrap free lunches (policy from Thatcher era)
- Increase tax personal allowance
- One Nation Tory
- Labour
- New Labour
- 1997 election - Tony Blair Centrist
- Reduced power of the trade unions
- 'Third Way' - between conventional socialism and capitalism
- Public-private partnerships
- Targeted welfare
- Old Labour
- Clause 4 socialism - nationalisation, regulation and welfare state
- Universal welfare
- High tax for high earners
- 2017 election manifesto
- Under Jeremy Corbyn = Old Labour / traditional left wing principles
- Scrap tuition fees
- 50p tax rate for high earners
- Free childcare
- Higher minimum wage
- End Zero hours contracts
- New Labour
- Green Party
- Environmentalist policies (socialism)
- 2017 manifesto = scrap tuition fees, introduce 'wealth tax' top 1% earners, An Environmental Protection Act
- UKIP
- Party of Brexit
- Key issues = reducing immigration, reduce foreign aid spending, increased NHS spending
- Single Issue party
- 2017 manifesto = reduce net migration to 0 within 5 years
- Role of Political parties
- Policy formation
- However, parties nowadays are more interested in holding power than keeping to an ideology
- Representation
- Responding to public opinion in order to win votes
- Recruitment of leaders
- Organisation of government
- Aim to gain majorities in parliaments to deliver legislation
- Encouragement of participation and mobilisation of members
- Policy formation
- Party Members
- Liberal Democrats
- Party conferences - members play large role in policy formation
- Nominate and vote for party leaders
- Growing tendency for policy formation to come from committees - strengthening of parliamentary leaders and weakening of grass roots
- 99,000 current members
- Labour
- Assigned to local branch - candidate selection for local candidates
- Instrumental in the organisation of the Labour Party at constituency level
- Direct influence over election of party leaders
- Declining in importance since reduction of party conference as policy formation
- 512,000 current members
- Conservatives
- Vote for 2 remaining candidates in leadership contest
- Form the grass roots conservative activists
- However, they have little decision over policy formation
- 125,000 current members
- Liberal Democrats
- Plaid Cymru
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