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"Evaluate the extent to which minor parties have an impact on UK…
"Evaluate the extent to which minor parties have an impact on UK politics?"
Structure
Breadth - range of parties - success over time [temporary] - what is impact [electoral policy, on bigger parties, etc]
Impact
Electoral success
House of Lords - have great number of seats
regional parliaments - smaller parties have greater representation than the ruling government
impact on large party policy
Fear for large parties
have they got their say?
Impact Policy - Brexit
2-3 Conservative MPs joined the Brexit party
Lib dems drawing conservative and labour towards centralist ideologies and policies
UKIP won many seats in the eu elections in 2014
balance of power - 2017 - DUP - small party in a coalition - 1 billion dollars to prop up the Conservative Party - lib dems passed many reforms by entering coalition with caeron's conservative - last few votes
do not have an impact
two party system - conservative labour - only two parties with prime ministers since 1945, despite coalition - they are never going to win power - electoral success will be limited
DUP is a mathematic anomaly
2017 -
smaller parties have grown consistently - rise of UKIP, SNP, 2017 - the UKIP vote collapses, lib dems from unpopular coalition - over 85% back in labour and conservative - as a caveat, Brexit party 2019 ctahcip up with the lib dems - if it was nt for the Brexit party - Boris may not have won
smaller parties are temporary, unlike the permanent - SDP in 80s - lib dems wiped out in 2015 after coalition, UKIP almost winning eu elections, destroy diner Paul mitten in 2015, 17 - SNP, Greens - have not picked up in electoral system - limited system - transient
the systems of parliament - electoral system - first past the post - LIB DEMS get millions of votes, green parties get millions of votes - they don't win many votes - two party system of parliament - cannot sit on front benches - passed out of select committees - proportional systems accommodate for greater impact for smaller parties but is not present -
Pressure Groups - do they have as much impact as pressure groups - green peace - extinction rebellion - is UKIP a pressure group which grew into a political party -
depends on the various unconsidered factors including the state of major parties [are they divided?] - policies of major parties, 2015 post coalition - UKIP rose as a result - labour was unpopular in 80s, SDP rose - Scottish independence became a solely SNP policy and they garnered votes as a result. when conservative picked up Brexit, UKIP's electoral success declined - electoral system, compare to Scottish system,
Minor Parties
SNP
UKIP
Brexit Party
Green Party
DUP