Emerging minor parties

• SNP policies for 2019 general election:

  • referendum on Scottish independence in 2020
  • keep Scotland in the EU
  • greater powers for Scottish parliament
  • end austerity
  • introduce an NHS Protection Bill to block UK gigs from using the NHS in trade talks
• SNP: won enough seats in the 2007 Scottish parliamentary election to form a government. In 2015 general election, won 56 of the 59 west minster seats on offer in Scotland
• SNP: persuaded Cameron to allow a referendum on Scottish independence in 2014 and acquired greater levels of devolved responsibilities in the Scotland Act of 2016
• UKIP policies for 2019 general election:

  • leave EU immediately with no deal
  • cut immigration to low sustainable levels
  • £5.4 billion a year for 30,000 more doctors and 40,000 more nurses
  • education in schools to focus on making the UK self sufficient
• UKIP: made its great electoral breakthrough in the 2015 general election (won 12.6% of the vote however its support was so dispersed so converted into only one parliamentary seat)
• UKIP: sank to 0.1% of the vote in 2019, continues to exist as a party but with Brexit being complete it not longer appears to have a role in British politics
• Green party policies for 2019 general election:

  • £100 bullion a year for a decade to tackle climate change
  • net zero carbon emissions by 2030
  • create more than 1 million jobs (green investment)
  • introduce a People’s Vote Bill to implement another referendum on Brexit (campaign to remain)
• Green party: have failed to make an electoral breakthrough
• Green Party: has a left-wing stance: uni tuition fees should be abolished, supports legalisation of cannibis, opposes the use of nuclear power, investments into public transport, constitutional reform to make the UK more democratic and large numbers of new, low cost environmentally friendly homes should be built
• Brexit/Reform UK policies for 2019 general election:

  • leave all institutions of the EU
  • negotiate a free trade agreement with the EU
  • leave the EU and move to World Trade Organisation trading rules of a free trade agreement = unsuccessful
  • £200 billion on infrastructure and wifi services for pith
• Brexit/Reform UK: established to put pressure on the Conservative gov to achieve Brexit.
• UKIP share a similar policy with the conservative party of cutting immigration levels
• Brexit’s idea of a free market also aligns with the conservative party
• The green party are keen for a second referendum on Brexit (campaigning to remain) like the Labour party at the time
• UKIP and Brexit both wish for the UK to leave all institutions of the EU