Political Party
...onmental principles. It’s essential that we have political parties especially countries such as the United Kingdom, a practising democratical country. This allows the people to have freedom of speech and this intern enables the party to voice the views on national matters such as health and education. There are many political parties in Britain, but throughout Britain as a whole there are three dominant political parties Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats. Anyone is able to form a party, but with these dominant parties having influential role on all major issues e.g. Education, taxes and because of the way our voting system, this makes it difficult for other parties to grow and make themselves known amongst the community. Political parties are not funded by the government, they are funded by the subscription fees from party members, sponsors from particular companies, fund raising activities, donations from supporters etc. The opposition parties who have Mp’s who have won the majority vote from their constituency to win a seat in parliament are given financial support from the short fund (Edward Short) introduced by him in the 1970’s. The opposition party receives this payment on a formula which is based on the amount of seats won an votes received in the most recent general election. For every seat won £3,840, 66 is given to the party and a special ...