C1- Political Parties Flashcards
2023 Conservative Party Funding
£8.8 million
2023 Labour Party Funding
£7.4 million
2023 Green Party Funding
£220,000
2023 Reform UK Funding
£100,000
What are policy development grants?
Allocations of £2 million to all main parties so they can employ policy advisors.
What is short money?
Money allocated to opposition parties for their work in the House of Commons. The leader of the opposition gets £800,000 to fund their office.
What is Cranbourne money?
Subsidies to fund the work of opposition parties in the House of Lords.
How much short money did Labour receive in 2023-24?
£7.6 million
How much short money did the Greens receive in 2023-24?
£200,000
What did the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA2000) do?
Set up the independent Electoral Commission
Set a £54,000 limit per party on spending per constituency
Donations over £11,000 must be declared to the Electoral Commission
Overseas donations are banned
What are big money interests?
Interests of wealthy businesses in seeing favourable policies.
What is ‘quid pro quo’?
A favour for a favour, donors expect favourable policy and legislation in return for their cash.
What was the Tony Blair Formula 1 scandal in 1997?
Bernie Ecclestone donated £1 million to the Labour party before the election.
Exempted Formula 1 from the Tobacco sponsorship ban, to prevent losing F1 in the UK.
Sir Michael Hink incident
Billionaire hedge fund manager
2014 he donated £1.5 million to the Tories
£150 million worth of tax breaks given to hedge funds
Hink was given a peerage
How much funding did Labour receive from the unions under Ed Milliband’s leadership?
75% of all funding
How much would it cost per person if political parties were state funded?
50p
Lord Bamford incident
Donated £100,000 to the Tories in 2010
Received a peerage in 2013
2010 vs 1997 party spending
2010- £30 million total
1997- £28.5 million (Conservatives only)
What is a one-party system?
Where thee a number of different political parties but only one of them has ever held power, or has a chance of holding power.
What is a two-party system?
Where two main parties compete for power, and no other party had any reasonable chance of forming a government.
What is a multi-party system?
A number of parties compete to form the government. These systems often result in coalitions, and are much more likely to happen in systems which use proportional representation.
What is a two-and-a-half party system?
Two major parties dominate politics, while a third party is smaller than the two main parties, but larger than any of the other parties trailing behind.
What is a political party?
A group of people organised for the purpose of winning power by putting candidates up for election.
What are left wing ideas?
Equal and fair society through state intervention
Higher taxation
Extensive welfare provision
Greater role of the state in he economy
