British Political Parties - Fun Poll!

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Which British political party are you closest to? Why? Read along, decide who you are closer to and then vote in the poll. Also, feel free to comment on any of the stats, policy or leaders!

Conservative Party



Stats
Leader: Prime Minister, David Cameron.
Seats in the House of Commons: 307 out of 650.
Seats in the House of Lords: 186 out of 724.
Seats in the European Union Parliament: 25 out of 73 British seats.
Names You May Recognise: Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher.

Ideology Summary
Regulation and Tax: Less regulation. Less tax. Less public services.
Social: More traditional family values.
Electoral Reform and Democracy: Against reform to the electoral system and the House of Lords.
Stance on the United Kingdom (The Union between Scotland, England and Wales): Staunch Unionists.
War: For the Iraq War. For the war in Afghanistan.
View of European Union: Eurosceptic

Conservative Party Factions
Thatcherites: Radical Capitalists. Believe in much less regulation, tax and public services. They believe in privatisation. "Theres no such thing as society".
One Nation Conservatives: Traditional family values and totally against any kind of radical reform. Their only goal being that they should just run the country and keep it together.


Labour Party



Stats
Leader: Leader of the Official Opposition, Ed Milliband.
Seats in the House of Commons: 258 out of 650.
Seats in the House of Lords: 212 out of 724.
Seats in the European Union Parliament: 13 out of 73 British seats.
Names You May Recognise: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown.

Ideology Summary
Regulation and Tax: More regulation. More tax. More public services.
Social: They want to "help people to help themselves".
Electoral Reform and Democracy: For changes to the electoral system (Alternative Voting System) and the House of Lords.
Stance on the United Kingdom (The Union between Scotland, England and Wales):Unionist but they also introduced legislation to give Scotland its own devolved Scottish Parliament etc.
War: For the Iraq War at the time but many prominent members have since condemned the Iraq War or said that it was the wrong thing to do.
View of European Union: pro-EU

Labour Party Factions
Old Labour: Socialist. Believe in the abolition on the Lords and the Monarchy.
New Labour: Social Democrats. A compromise between socialism and capitalism in an effort to move to the centre ground. "Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" sums this compromise up, between the left and right wing, quite well.


Liberal Democratic Party



Stats
Leader: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Constitutional and Political Reform, Nick Clegg.
Seats in the House of Commons: 57 out of 650.
Seats in the House of Lords: 71 out of 724.
Seats in the European Union Parliament: 12 out of 72 British seats.
Names You May Recognise: None.

Ideology Summary
Regulation and Tax: Tax the rich at a higher rate. Belief in public services, coming somewhere between the Conservatives and Labour.
Social: More socially liberal than the other two in general.
Electoral Reform and Democracy: For electoral reform (Proportional Representation) and for the abolition of the House of Lords to be replaced with a Senate.
Stance on the United Kingdom (The Union between Scotland, England and Wales): Less Unionist than the Conservatives and either the same level of Unionism, or less, than Labour.
War: Were for a timetabled withdrawal from Iraq. Their leader, now Deputy Prime Minister, has recently called the war in Iraq illegal. Against the war in Afghanistan.
View of European Union: Extremely pro-EU.

Liberal Democrats Factions
Liberals: More capitalist.
Social Democrats: More like New Labour.




British politics today

There is currently a Conservative and LibDem Coalition Government with a Labour Opposition.