ThePoliticalPartiesoftheUnitedKingdom材料.ppt

David Cameron The Labor Party Leader Edward Miliband Founded February 27 ,1900 Headquarters 16 Old Queen Street London, SW1H 9HP Political Position Centre-left（左翼） Official Color Red Logo Loubor Political beliefs Democratic socialism/Social democracy 英国工党旧党徽 The Labour Party A. the origin of its name Before 1922, the policies were controlled by the rich. The working class became more and more unwilling to follow them. They wanted to have their own party. So the Labour Party was formed by the trade unions, the Independent Labour Party and the Fabian Society 费边社（英国社会改良主义团体） in 1900. It gradually replaced the Liberal Party to become one of the two major parties in the UK. B. the nature of the Labour Party It is the party of the reformist（改革主义者）, non-revolutionary left because it believes in the pursuit of greater social and economic equality, aims at the nationalization as the means of production and distribution（旨在国有化作为生产和分配的方式）. C. the features of the Labour Party relatively poor and underprivileged（相对贫困和弱势） strong in the heavily-populated industrial areas and particularly associated with the working class nationwide organization, few resources and heavily depends on the trade unions conference for making the party policy Now, the Labour Party ’s chieftain is Edward Miliband. For the Labour Party ,some person we should know, like Gordon Brown, David Miliband and Tony Blair. 戈登·布朗 大卫·米利班德 布莱尔 Great People The Liberal Democrats Leader Nick Clegg Founded 1988 Political Position Neutrality（中立） Logo Political Belief Liberalism and social liberalism Liberal Democrats The History of the Liberal Democrat Party The Liberal Democrats are a British political party founded in 1988 through a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. In the middle ground between the dominant the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats occupy a centre-left, libertarian view point. Logo of Libe