The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again. Labour first surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s.
Since then, the party has had several spells in government, at first in minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931, then as a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940-1945 and ultimately forming majority governments under Clement Attlee in 1945-1951 and under Harold Wilson in 1964-1970. Labour was in government again in 1974-1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan, though with a precarious and declining majority.
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The Labour Party won a majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair, its first general election victory since October 1974 and the first general election since 1970 in which it had exceeded 40% of the popular vote. The party’s large majority in the House of Commons was slightly reduced to 167 in the 2001 general election and more substantially reduced to 66 in 2005. Labour is the leading partner in the coalition Welsh government and the main opposition party in the Scottish Parliament. It has 13 members in the European Parliament and is also a member of the Socialist International. The party’s current leader is Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_%28UK%29
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Please use the comment form below to describe why you will or will not be voting Labour Party at the next General Election.
labour will get us out of debt the recession JESUS gordon browns already doing it its just you morons are all lib dems its like the public are children in a sweet shop and leb dems are giving the sweet out for free when there not sweets there vegetables there coning you you idiots
gordon brown is just trying to do right and david camaron cocking it up when lib dems get in dont be crying when they raise taxes and make everything expensive and youd have wish youd of voted for labour!!
Labour Government Will Get Us Out Of Debt
Labour’s policy of ID cards, increased police powers, draconian terrorism laws, DNA database, increased monitoring of its citizens through internet, mail, social networking sites is leading this country into a Stasi future.
This alone is the reason not to vote Labour, but of course there are many more
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I think the British political campaigns are all very parochial. Argument about free eye tests etc. The argument is largely on small variations on how to divide the expenditure. It is only the Tories who have talked about being more competitive in global markets.Where are teh policies of increasing productivity and making Britain productive and combating the very real threats faced by most western countries in their continual lack of real productivity.
Banking contribute some 17 % of GDP – How did the labour party ensure that this huge sector was correctly administrated to protect this large and precious contribution to the UK? Their plans going forward have also showed no insight in how to adquately address the risk aspects of the financial institutions. There seems to be little insight into how a government can very effectively manage these risks. All the focus is on how to protect the hand outs to ensure they will be paid back. This is not addressing the cause and lack of diligence by the government of the day.
The debates I have heard have been about petty issues when I believe that the Western economies are under serious threat Do I sense the onset of the poverty of western nations because of the apathetic political policies in times when someone really brave is required to seriously take the bull by the horns and make the changes required to lead Britain into a successful future.
Or do we put our head in the sand and measure ourselves against all the other failing economies around us?
The only person Ive heard alluding to these issues is Mr Cameron.
I have not studied economics nor politics so can someone please agree with em or point out the error of my thinking?
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