UK Politics

The UK general election is expected on May 6 2010, where around 45 million eligible voters will place a single X against the political party/candidate they want to represent them for up to 5 years. With our current first past the post electoral vote system only the candidate with the most votes in each of […]

Mr Speaker, today’s Pre-Budget Report takes place at a critical time for our economy and for our country. Governments across the world have taken co-ordinated steps to deal with the biggest financial crisis for over half a century. In the UK, our action has reduced the impact of this downturn on families and businesses. But […]

I’ve removed the Political Parties News from this section of the UK General Election 2010 site, it was taking up valuable space (on the menus) and wasn’t generating much interest (just 11 comments). I moved the Political Parties News to another section UK General Election 2010 Party Political News for anyone wanting to read the […]

As requested by users of the UK General Election website this page can be used to post interesting political videos from YouTube. If you know of interesting political videos on YouTube you can embed them into a comment below. If you see a YouTube video as a comment posted on another page and feel others […]

The Queen’s Speech is read by the Queen from the Throne in the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament. The Queen’s Speech is written by the government (2009 is the Labour Party) and outlines government policies and proposed legislation for the new parliamentary session. Queen Speech 2009 TV Broadcast Queen Speech 2009 […]

This page is to discuss comments etc… made by the Conservative MP David Cameron. David Cameron Biography (from the Conservative Party website) David was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005, on a mandate to change the Party and change the country. Since then he has set out plans to rebuild our battered […]

The 2005 General Election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 with the Labour Party with 9,562,122 votes, (down 5.4% on the last general election) of the total 27,110,727 who voted) won its third general election in a row under their leader Tony Blair. The Labour Party failed to gain any new seats, loosing 66 […]

The political pressure group Unite Against Fascism (UAF) was formed in 2003 primarily by the National Assembly Against Racism and the Socialist Workers Party of Britain to campaign against fascist organisations like the British National Party (BNP) which are fascist/racist in nature. The UAF was formed in the wake of growing political support for the […]