Mitchell Said:

What are the ideological differences between the Libertarian Party UK and the Liberal Democrats (LibDems)?

We Answered:

there are no such differences.

Virginia Said:

What are the main UK party policies in the following:?

We Answered:

Labour into all three. Cons and Libs just the first two. The only one that counts is the last one, the other two are an invasion into peoples life's and therefore should not be on the political agenda.

Vivian Said:

Should the 52 Blue Dog Democrats switch party? They Conservative in a Liberal Party and under fire from them.?

We Answered:

"Blue Dogs" can be easily misunderstood. They are "conservative Democrats" only in the sense that they place a high priority on the goal of balancing the budget. Other than that, most of them are not "conservative." I have studied their voting records thoroughly, especially their approval ratings from the Americans for Democratic Action and the American Conservative Union and nearly all "blue dogs" have a left-of-center voting record; some of them are actually quite liberal. The only common thread among these Democrats is that they are concerned about balancing the budget. As such, I do not think that most of them are candidates for party-switching.

Frederick Said:

What are the pros and cons of the conservatives, labour and the liberal democrats?

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First of all, you need to read between the lines of every answer you get here. Most of them will be by Americans who like to explain everything as being the fault of 'Libs' or 'Cons' when their political parties are in fact extremely closely aligned. Others will simply be a blatant attempt to get you to vote for that poster's preferred political party. For example, we can see that greengiant wants you to vote for the Conservatives.

Also, true 'fiscal', or in more orthodox terms, economic liberals are not in fact those who want higher taxes and social spending but believers in the free market as the most efficient way to allocate resources and promote growth. The politicians who coyote skeleton would call liberals could be more accurately termed socialists or social democrats.

Anyway. Moving on to the upcoming election, lets start with the idea that conservatives only cater for the rich. I think you can dispel this pretty easily by looking at the number of voters they are expected to poll, you can't be a majority party in a democracy if you only support the demands of 5 or 10% of the population. Traditionally, the Tories have been the party of the upper class, and in the last 30 years, of big business. But with New Labour having moved so close to them on economic and social levels you can't really start a class war over their differences any more. The Lib-Dems are also economically similar. It's on civil liberties, environmentalism and such that they offer a difference, what with them being liberals and all.
Similarly to the Tories 30 years ago, Labour shifted from their traditional ground before the 1997 election to start actually appealing to the middle class, and they succeeded massively with their 'Third Way' policies of combining the free market with social justice and so on.

Here's a pretty good comparison of basic policies:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8515961.stm#subject=key&col1=conservative&col2=labour&col3=libdem

Personally I won't give you a biased overview, I agree and disagree with bits of all the parties' agendas, although I'm liking the idea of there actually being a 3rd voice in British politics, as opposed to an American or Whig-Tory style 2-party hold on power. Greengiant it's interesting that you choose to describe PR as the system that brought the Nazis to power, it's also the system used in nearly every other European nation at the moment, and it seems to work alright for them.

Jesus Said:

Which political party should I support in the UK?

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I think you should vote based on the issues not on party ideologies. Even within the same party, the candidates take different positions on the issues. Don't brand yourself and vote because some party says to vote that way. You have a brain, use it to think for yourself.

Regina Said:

WHat is the liberal democrats stance on prohibition?

We Answered:

Libertarian...

Democrats are all for prohibition. Just look at their rhetoric about prohibiting guns. If prohibiting something will get them votes, they'll do it in a heart beat...