Scottish Labour Party

The Scottish National Party was formed in 1934 following the merger of the National Party and the Scottish and has had continuous representation at Westminster since the 1967 Winnie Ewing’s victory at the 1967 Hamilton by-election. When the Scottish Parliament was formed in 1999, the SNP became the second largest party in the Scottish legislature, serving two terms in opposition. Alex Salmond became the leader of the SNP in 1990 and returned as leader in 2004, leading the party to take the majority

ultimately, was responsible for driving Eva smith to suicide. Paragraph 1During the 1930's Priestley became very concerned about the consequences of social inequality in Britain, and in 1942 Priestley and some others set up a new political party, the Common Wealth Party that

“The Labour Party is the party of devolution.” Is this a reasonable statement to make? Devolution is defined as “the transfer of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administrations” (oxforddictionaries.com). It can also be defined as “the transfer of power from a superior sovereign to a subordinate parliament or assembly.” (Tonge 2010). Within a devolved state, the sovereign power retains the technical power to suspend the devolved government. Since Labour

‘New Labour.' With respect to the history of politics, ‘New Labour' is a fairly recent description of a change or shift in the Labour party ideology occurring within the last 12 years. It refers to a gradual shift of Labour from political left to a more conservative right wing approach to various issues and in terms of the political spectrum, Labour now occupy the middle-to-right area, rather than the middle-to-left of the previous Old Labour. The phrase was first coined in a 1994 Labour Party

election swept away eighteen years of Conservative government, replacing it with a Labour majority government - with a majority of 179; their largest majority ever, surpassing even the 145 seat majority won by the party in 1945. Under the Labour landslide, several prominent Tory MPs and frontbenchers were defeated by Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National candidates, such as Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth, Trade Secretary Ian Lang, former Health Secretary

decisions. The role of the central government will be questioned and it is therefore, according to those who are pro constitution, essential to empirically define it, so that the regional assemblies are clear as to what their role is. The Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are the two main groups that are calling for clearer distinction of roles and powers to be made. A major

Previously the UK has been criticised for having a two party system since the 1990s. This means that the voting system of First Past the Post favours two parties, these being Labour and Conservatives. However, it has now been challenged that the two party system is in decline and the UK is moving to a Multi-party system. A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties across the political board run for national election, and all have the capacity to gain control of government

These two political parties have always been rivals. The labour party are more for helping the poor and making everyone equal, whereas the conservatives are take a much more right wing approach to things and always have the rich peoples life’s at heart. The Tories have always disagreed with labour and what they stand for. They hardly ever agree on policies or how the county should be run. This is shown through the characters of Lionel and Gerald in the play. It’s treated with a comedy aspect and

(Disadvantages): For any party to gain majority power is almost impossible without building coalitions and working together. Coalitions can be tenuous, and when they fail the government must reorganize and choose new leaders. Instability makes progress difficult. The direct connection between legislative and executive branches signifies there is efficiently no check on either power in the other. There is a small incentive for bigger parties to disburse some attention to the small party concerns. As a result

features of the Scottish political system, describe the voting