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Political Parties - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Can be seen as a failure as in 2017 and 2019 there was still large discrepancies in how much each party spent. (Labour-5.4m, Lib Dems-1.3m, Tory-19.4m)
    - - For
        
        Parties play an important role in representing democracy and therefore deserve state funding.
        
        Public funding removes the disparity in resources available to different sized parties.
        
        State matched donations by party members might encourage participation.
        
        Would stop possible corruption and influence of private backers.
      - Against
        
        Increased state funding could call for greater state regulation, possibly reducing the parties independence.
        
        Hard to decide how much support to give or who qualifies for funding.
    - - Conservative=buisnesses
      - Labour=Trade unions/buisness
- - - - In 2010 they had 57 seats but in 2015 they had just 8. That year they also lost the title as the 'Third biggest party' to the SNP.
      - In 2017 they became the Third biggest party but only had 12 seats and in 2019 this dropped to 11.
      - Recently seen more success - Chesam and Amersham 2021, Conservative safe seat lost 35.5% of votes whilst the Lib Dems vote share went up by 30% and they won.
    - - Draw from liberal and socialist ideology and commonly sit on the left-centre of political ideologies.
      - In the 2019 manifesto they wanted to increase education funding by 10.6 billion and the NHS budget by 26 billion a year for 4 years.
- - - - Smaller parties have become highly influential in recent general elections. In 2010 the conservatives established a coalition with the Lib Dems and in 2017 the DUP supported them with a confidence and supply.
      - The last large majority was won by Tony Blair in 2005 election, since then neither of the two main parties have won by a large majority.
      - SNP plays a significant role in Scotland