Political Parties examples Flashcards
3 ways party members can play a role in one of the main political parties + examples
- Can donate to parties to help further cause
- Lord Sainsbury has continuosly funded the tories eg. £25,000 to scottish tories in 2018 - Influence the direction of political parties
- Labour party conference 2019 = party’s position regarding brexit was voted on by members (remain neutral)
- allows representation = engagement in politics - Some parties can vote on party leader
- BoJo won on a vote of 0.15% of the population = 100,000 members
- thereby also elected the PM as conservatives
3 reasons why minor parties are important + examples
Governing part can use a minority party to reach an agreement and form a government
- Conservative and democratic unionist part made a pact in 2017
A minority that wins a large no. of votes may influence a party out of fear
- Conservative party was influenced by UKIP and so promised a referendum on EU withdrawal
If a minority part wins a large number of votes it can be influential in the house of commons
- SNP since 2015
3 main things in 2019 conservative party manifesto
- No rises in income tax
- Get brexit done
- 20.5bn funding for the nhs by 2024
3 main things in 2019 labour party manifesto
- 10 minimum wage for all workers
- hold another Brexit referendum
- 400bn transformation fund eg. housing
2 main things in libdem party manifesto
- stop Brexit = money spent on public services
- 1p rise in income tax
2 advantages of state funding for parties
2 disadvantages of state funding for parties
- hard to determine how much support a party needs to get for funding
- Unfair on apathetic tax payers
- Would curb the possibility of corruption
-would remove the disparity available to different sized parties
3 ways the UK can be seen as having a multi party system
- Growing support of alternative parties
eg. 2019 Brexit part got 30.52% of votes
Growth of coalitions ans hung parliaments
- coalitions and hung parliaments are becoming a more regular feature in Westminster,
eg. 2010 coalition = no party achieved the 326 seats needed for a majority. The Conservatives, led by David Cameron, won the most votes and seats, but still fell 20 seats short.
defection of MPs from Labour and Conservatives
- Tory MP Christian Wakeford defected to join the Labour party = as a result of pm parties
Conservative party
3 features of one nation conservatism
- A keynesian economy ( gov. should publicly spend to stimulate demand) with significant state intervention
- evolution not revolution
- pragmatism and paternalism
Conservative party
3 features of Thatcherism
- '’rolling back the frontiers of the state’’ - deregulation and privatisation of publicly owned businesses (neo liberalism)
- neo conservatism - eg. banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools
- individuals over society as a whole
The Labour Party
Old labour vs new labour
Dogmatic vs. Pragmatism
Interventionist state vs favours a market economy
Universal welfare vs Targeted welfare
Conservative party under David Cameron
compassionate conservatism - liberal conservatism
- coalition made it difficult for them to achieve anything
Liberal Democrats
Orange book (classical liberalism) vs Social liberals (progressive liberalism
Orange book
- classical liberalism - minimal state intervention , equality and self reliance
- thatcherite / neo liberal economics
- Nick Clegg
Social liberals
- Progressive liberalism - some regulation of the market (Keynesian) + basic targeted welfare
- reject thatcherite economics
- Tim Farron
Conservative party local level structure
+ policy making systems
- local conservative associations with ward branches
- organises the grass roots of a party
labour party local level structure
+ policy making systems
- Each constituency has a constituency labour party - CLP and branch labour party
- leads local campaigns
libdem party local level structure
+ policy making systems
- local branches
- run constituency level campaigns