The Labour Party
C. the features of the Labour Party
• relatively poor and underprivileged • strong in the heavily-populated industrial
areas and particularly associated with the working class • nationwide organization, few resources and heavily depends on the trade unions • conference for making the party policy
in 1833.
The Conservative Party
B. the nature of the Conservative Party It is the party of the right because the Conservatives are opposed to great changes in society and have a belief in private enterprise and freedom from state control.
Lord John Russell (1865–1868 )
• Liberal Leaders in the House of Lords
• As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party
American Political Parties
The Conservative Party
C. the features of the Conservative Party
• relatively rich and privileged • maintenance of the existing institutions
as its policy • last word in deciding policy by its leader • conference for the leaders’ guidance but
The Labour Party
Tony Blair The Resignation Speech
• the mid 19th century
• Labor Party in the 1920s
• a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988
• merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats.
The Liberal Democratic Party
• A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, continued under the old name of "the Liberal Party". This was legally a new organization but its constitution asserts it to be the same Liberal party. The party retains minor influence in some local councils .
Democratic Party Republican Party
• Its origin can be traced to the coalition formed behind Thomas Jefferson in the 1790s to resist the policies of George Washington’s administration.
a device for making the party’s policy
• Winston Churchill
– PM 1940-1945 & – 1951-1955
• Margret Thatcher
– PM 1979-1990
• David Cameron
– PM 2010 - present
• In Civil War, the democratic supported slavery and represented the interest of plantation owners.
Political parties in Britain
The Conservative Party 保 守党
The Labourocratic Party 自由党
A. the origin of its name
Due to the religious difference of opinion, the nonPuritan Anglicans were the supports of the King and the Church. They were called “Tories” by their opponents, a term of abuse used to describe the dispossessed Irish outlaws who plundered and killed English settlers, but gradually began to stand for Loyalists (or Cavaliers) whose political instrument was the king and whose strength was drawn from the conservative landowning class. Its name was changed from Tory to Conservative