2006-11-08 09:21:17 · 19 answers · asked by catt 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
No republicans like conservatives and democrats like labour
mind you new labour is more like conservatives that is why Bush and Blair are such good friends
2006-11-08 09:24:06 · answer #1 · answered by toietmoi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
In the past, the UK Labour Party did not parallel any US Party. The Tories were left of the Republicans.
Following the common adoption of neo-Conservatism by Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s, ideological links appeared between the UK Tories and the US Republicans. This included use of ideas from similar think tanks. It appears increasingly to include contacts such as the exchange of observers at Conferences and Conventions, employment of specialist election advisers and the exchange of unpaid research assistants. I believe that such temporary positions are actualy facilitated by grants. I think it wrong that legislators should prefer assistants from any other country to people with a stake in their own nation.
There have been relationships between Labour and the Democrats because US Trades Unions, whilst not having anything like the relationship of British Trades Unions with the Labour Party, have tended to support the Democrats rather than the Republicans (historically, some of this support was not very nice). More recently, this relationship appears to have become more marked, perhaps by reaction to the Tories/Republicans, and similar in nature. In particular, Clinton has addressed several recent Labour Conferences.
The Labour/Democrat informal link is one reason Blair's relationship with Bush has been so surprising, and why it is even more surprising the Labour Party and Labour MPs have let it go on.
It is difficult to understand how Cameron's image movement of the Tories to the centre can be reconciled with informal Tory links with the Republicans. Given what happened with Bush and Blair, I think that Tory policies in office likely revert to the right not least because of US influence.
I suspect that the widespread development of informal between US and UK Parties is a major reason why Labour and the Tories are losing touch. US Parties are much looser influence coalitions and less ideological (to the extent that they have crossed over - in the 1920s the Republicans were more radical than the Democrats) than those in the US. I don't think UK voters have any wish for their Parties to become like those in the USA, which is what is happening.
A final point. UK and European Parties work together formally because of groupings in the European Parliament and the consequent need for common manifestos in European Elections. The people in effect agreed this in the 1975 UK Referendum. For obvious reasons, I cannot envisage a UK referendum setting up common parliamentary arrangements with the US anytime soon (although come to think of it they might solve quite a few problems).
2006-11-09 13:12:56 · answer #2 · answered by Philosophical Fred 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Republican Party has traditionally had close ties to the British Conservative Party (although not exclusively). They were both free-market, anti-Communist, somewhat inward looking.
The Democrats and the old Liberal Party (now the LibDems) had close ties to the Democrats.
Labour never really had close links with either because, until Tony Blair came along, Labour did not believe in a free-market (as a Socialist party it believed in State management of the economy). However as the Democrats became more internationalist under Bill Clinton and Labour moved to the political centre-ground, the two partes forged close links.
Many Conservatives are appalled at the neo-conservative social policies of the Bush Administration (particularly on issues such as abortion). This was evidenced by a large number of Conservative MPs volunteering to help the John Kerry campaign in 2004.
2006-11-08 18:02:20 · answer #3 · answered by Timothy M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the Democrats are to the left, like Labour. But I would say Labour is as corrupt as the Republicans, although Blair obviously has more brains than Bush
2006-11-08 17:26:10 · answer #4 · answered by km 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently, the Republicans are an extreme right party (a centimeter short of religio/fascist).
There is no party on the left, so "progressives" tend to be Democrats, though some are Greens.
US politics runs the full political continuum from far right to center-right.
More's the pity.
2006-11-08 22:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I'd say the current Democrat party is most like the Liberal Democrates in Britain. The Republicans are right wing religious nuts that try to make people as scared as possible and then prey off that fear.
2006-11-08 17:39:02 · answer #6 · answered by MATTHEW A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Republicans are more like the Tories. Democrats would be the Labor party.
2006-11-08 17:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by datamonkey0031 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Republicans are like the Labour party who are like the democrats who are like the conservatives who are just like the liberals. Please wake up. There is only one set up for these countries. Any difference is too slim to register. What difference scientists call "negligible"
2006-11-08 17:27:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. We don't really have a party that supports labor unions anymore. That was formerly the Democrats, but they have sold out too.
2006-11-08 17:23:33 · answer #9 · answered by Edward 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No they are the baddies - the Conservatives!
democrats - left wing
republicans - right wing
2006-11-08 17:29:07 · answer #10 · answered by Druantia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋