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POLITICAL PARTIES Flashcards

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COMMUNISM?

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FAR LEFT
Rule by people in committees
Collectivism
e.g. Russia, China etc.

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SOCIALISM?

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left week
traditionally focuses on the working class
values: 
- collectivism (part of a group)
- nationalised industry (belonging to everyone), 
- social welfare and benefits, 
- negociable social rules, 
- distriubution of wealth
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conservatism

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centre right
representing the bourgeoisie 
traditional gender roles
free trade and enterprise 
accumulation of personal wealth
strong law and order
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Fascism

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  • rule by unelected leader
  • cult of individuals - hitler, mussolini, stalin
  • far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by:
  • —>dictatorial power,
  • —>forcible suppression of opposition
  • —>strong regimentation of society and of the economy,
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when was the Tory party created?

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1678

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when was the conservative party created?

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1832

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when was the labour party formed ?

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1900

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when was the labour party formed ?

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1900

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Liberal democrats formed?

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1988

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who was in power between 1979 and 1997?

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the conservatives

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who was in power between 1997 and 2010?

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The labour party

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birth of conservatism party?

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  • originally tory royalist party
  • defended interests of land gentry and merchants
  • main right wing party of the UK
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formation of the liberal democrats?

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formed in 1988: result of merging and political evolution
supported free trade, religious tolerance, power of parliament over monarch
until ww1, second major party but declined with emergence of labour party.

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formation of labour party?

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  • born outside parliament in 1990
  • trade unions and socialist groups
  • party aimed to received representation of the working class in parliament.
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conservative ideology:

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- Mixed economy
• Enterprise
• Low taxation
• Limited state intervention
• Limited Welfare State
• Law and order
• Anti-European tendency
• Brexit?
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membership and organisation of conservative party?

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  • 2.5 million members in the 1950s, 124,000 members (March 2018)
    • Constituency associations select local candidates
    • the Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) leads in funding, organisation of elections and drafting of policy.
    • Leadership election :
  • when the leader resigns or there is a motion of no confidence against him/her ( Cameron’s resignation after Brexit)
  • If more than two candidates stand, then MPs first hold a series of
    ballots to reduce the number to two (Theresa May vs Andrea
    Leadsom)
    • On each round, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated.
    When 2 candidates remain, all members are balloted and choose
    between the two (Victory of Theresa May)
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Margaret Thatcher:

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Conservative Party Leader: 1974-1990, UK Prime Minister: 1979-1990.

ideology:
- Individualism
- Self-help
- Free-market
- Anti-inflation
- Home ownership
- Anti nanny-state
- De-taxation

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david cameron years:

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‘Big society’=
- Britain’s centralized state has become too big, too
bureaucratic and just too distant to support many of those
most in need of help, and that it deters people from playing a
more active role in public life
• Passing power to the lowest level possible: radical public
service reform, so that schools, social services, planning and
even prisons are more responsive to the needs of those using
them; and social action, to encourage more people to play a
role in society. Not just charities, but neighbourhood groups,
workers’ co-operatives, social enterprises and, yes, businesses.
• coalition with Lib-Dems (2010-2015)
• Referendum - voting system (5 May 2011)
• Referendum - Scottish Independence: 18 September
2014.
• Fixed-term Parliament Act (2011)
• ‘bedroom tax’
• Welfare cuts/austerity measures
• Gay marriage
• Brexit referendum

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theresa may:

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-longest serving secretary of state before PM.
-stood with cameron in opposing brexit
-became PM in july 2016, but resigned as Conservative Party leader on June 7.
…..Her Brexit plans were rejected three times, survived a no-confidence vote, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators
demanded that another referendum on Brexit be held,“Time’s Up, Theresa” the front page of The Sun newspaper advising May to announce that she would leave office as soon as her plan was approved and Britain was out of the EU.
• Calls for her resignation multiplied.
- Sixteen alternative proposals to May’s plan were advanced by MPs, of which Speaker of the House John Bercow chose eight to put to a vote.
- None of the proposals was able to command a
majority.

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boris johnson:

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  • Became Conservative leader and PM in July 2018
    upon May’s resignation.
    -pledged to “deliver Brexit, unite the country, and defeat
    Jeremy Corbyn”
    -In snap election, the party increased its presence in the House of Commons by 47 seats and recorded its most commanding win in a parliamentary election since 1987 - 80 seat majority.
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labour 1945

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  • The Labour Party won the General Election in 1945 with a
    majority of 146
    -the Attlee Government lay the foundations of what
    became a post-war settlement
  • A lot of Attlee’s legacy still remains, and it was in this
    post-war period that the whole framework for the future
    was set up.
  • The Welfare State began during WW2
  • In 1941, the British government appointed Sir William Beveridge to survey existing social insurance and allied services, and to make recommendations.
    • He published his report in 1942
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beveridge report?

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Beveridge said there were five giants that had to be slain,
and they were:
• want = poverty
• disease = health
• ignorance = education
• squalor = housing
• idleness = unemployment
  • For the first time, a connection was established between
    them to tackle poverty
  • The report proposed a system of social security to be
    operated by the state, to be implemented at war’s end.
  • this security would protect Britons ‘from the cradle to the
    grave’
  • He advocated that all people in work would pay a single
    weekly flat rate contribution into the state insurance fund.
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new labour under blair?

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- removal	of	Clause	IV	of	party	
constitution	
- Changes	to	way	the	party	works:	loosening	ties	with	
the	unions	=OMOV	(One	Man	One	Vote)	
- Changes	in	policies	
- move	to	centre-left	
- New	Labour		
- Third	Way	
- Spin	/media:	Alastair	Campbell
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elements of third way?

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  • A belief in the value of community
  • A commitment to equality of opportunity
  • An emphasis on responsibility
  • A belief in accountability
  • The Third Way is in favour of growth,
    entrepreneurship, enterprise and wealth
    creation but it is also in favour of greater social justice and it sees the state playing a major role in bringing this about.
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corbyn?

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  • Return to more left-wing Labour Party
  • After Brexit, Corbyn accused of having let his party down by not campaigning hard enough for Remain.
  • It led to tensions within the Party, Corbyn being contested as leader, but was reelected.
    • 540,000 members (April 2018)
    • Antisemitism issue (Corbyn excluded and then reinstated within party but cannot be an MP anymore.

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