UK Political Parties
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- Created on: 25-01-22 08:39
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- Political Parties
- Origins and development of the parties
- Conservative: low tax, maintaining stability tradition and authority. Stayed mostly the same over time.
- Labour: higher tax, social progression, welfare, cooperation. Big shifts over time (Blair).
- Lib Dems: prioritizing individual liberty, low tax, low intervention. Changed between neoliberalism and old liberalism.
- Party structures
- Conservatives least democratic, top down structure with little grassroots participation. Vote between two chosen leader candidates.
- Labour: mid-level democratic, party members consulted on policy and AV system used for electing leaders.
- Lib Dems: most democratic, any member can suggest policy and vote on policy chosen by the federal committee and AV also used for electing leaders.
- Party funding debates
- Arguments for state funding: increasing public trust, decreasing reliance on donors, making campaigns more democratic.
- Arguments against state funding: would increase two party system, would sever Labours trade union link, taxpayers don't want their money going to extremists
- Short money for opposition
- Relations with media
- Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation have endorsed every PM since Thatcher
- Lib Dems in televised debate helped them win the 2010 coalition.
- Online data and targeted ads can change peoples opinions.
- Affecting election outcomes
- Primacy factors
- Income, race, gender, sexuality, region, culture
- Recency factors
- Past performance in office, media, current news events, party leaders, scandals
- Primacy factors
- Minor party policy
- The Green Party: Social and environmental justice, promoting sustainability and extension of human rights and a proportional electoral system.
- UKIP: full & hard Brexit, net zero immigration, civil service reform, electoral reform and decentralization of power to local governments.
- Minor parties work like pressure groups and tend to fail in parliament due to the wide spread nature of their supporters - why many support electoral reform to PR.
- Development towards a multi-party system
- Arguments towards a multi-party system: 2010 coalition government, multiple parties in the commons, governing party has less than 50% of vote.
- Arguments away from a multi-party system: minor parties have very few seats and little influence due to the FPTP electoral system and winners bonus.
- Origins and development of the parties
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