The Labour Party (工党)
• Believes in the supervision of industry by the government, even distribution of wealth, and equal opportunity. • After world war II, establishing welfare state to provide people with social security, unemployment insurance, and national healthy service . • Because of the decline of trade union membership and influence. In 1995,gives up commitment to socialism and the nationalisation.
Civil servant (公务员）
• There are about 500,000 civil servants in the UK today.
Advantages
• Work regular
• Little extra work • High social position • Good salary
Conservative Party
• Supports private enterprise and minimal state regulation, and accepts the mixed economy (involves private ownership of businesses with some government control).
Political Parties

the Conservative Party

the Labour Party

the Liberal Democrats
Group Members
• • • • • Ivy Cindy Zoe Cathy Andrea No .4 No .5 No .6 No .8 No .9
The Whigs (辉格党)
1.The great aristocratic families 2.non-Anglicans ter industrial interests and wealthy merchants
The Tories (托利党)
Anglican church
The landed gentry The Crown
The Features of the Labour Party
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relatively poor and underprivileged strong in the heaviand particularly associated with the working class nationwide organization, few resources and heavily depends on the trade unions conference for making the party policy
• Stable
• Medical treatment at public expense
• Education subsidy(补 贴）
• The same treatment after retirement
Political Party System In The UK
200 or so years before the mid-19th century
• Believe in a governing class with a natural right and special privileges.
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 a device for making the party’s policy
After 1815
• The Tories
• The Whigs
the Conservative Party
the Liberal Party
In 1922,the liberals and conservatives alternated office .
• Since 1945 ,The Conservative party and The Labour Party have been in power by turns. • In 1900,the Independent Labour Party (独立工 党) and the Fabian Society formed the New Labour Party. • In 1988,Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party are found the Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党).
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Civil Service Political Parties
Civil Service
(P47)
UK government departments are staffed by the civil service, consisting of career administrators called civil servants. Responsibility: minister their department for the implementation of government policies. The classic method of controlling the civil service: the doctrine of Ministerial responsibility.