If I move to the UK, which political party would I belong to?

[Judicator]

Labour or the liberal democrat party.

the liberal democrat party being further left.

[JSmith]

Probably liberal democrats.

[Jazzwallah]

Your best bet is the Conservative or Tory Party (Same thing) - the UK Conservatives are a 'centre right' party. They firmly believe in the freedom of the individual to choose for him/herself etc and the free market capitalism etc.

You can find out more about the Conservative Party at the link below.

But before you do that, it was a Conservative MP - William Wilberforce, who managed to get his private members' Bill passed in the House of Commons in 1807 to abolish slavery. It took him his entire political career to achieve this. Now that's what I call never giving up. Also you might like to read up a bit on Winston Churchill, who started out in the House of Commons as a Liberal and then walked across the floor of the House and joined the Conservatives. Not all bad then!

http://www.conservatives.com/

If you go to my Google Search link below you'll be able to click on even more 'conservative' links.

http://www.google.com/search?q=conservat...party%20uk

Like most political parties, the Conservative Party is a bit of a broad church in that it allows for a wide definition of conservatism from the right to the liberal right to the liberal left. In essence it is best seen as a party which believes in a 'liberal democracy' without too many breaks on how people achieve their goals - in some cases, no breaks or stops.

You might like to indulge yourself and have a look at PMQs (Prime Minister's Questions) in the House of Commons - should give you some idea of the kind of 'confrontational' democracy we have here in UK in the House of Commons, where the opposing parties sit facing each other only a sword's length apart - that close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlB555bHtvg

Politically, I'm with William Blake, a Londoner like me, who is probably best described as a 'socialist' with a very small 's'. He lead a rather exciting life - here's just one day's event.

One year into his time at the Royal Academy Blake was walking up Great Queen Street on his way to Basire's shop. He was then swept up by a mob supporting the American Revolution, which rampaged along the street and attacked Newgate Prison. Blake seemed to have no plan to join what later became known as the Gordon Riots, but he seemed to be caught in the passion of the moment, and apparently joined in the riot with great enthusiasm. He hated authority of all kinds, and would have been glad to support a cause such as American independence. Ironically it was in response to the Gordon Riots that a national police force was organised in Britain. So next time you see a policeman walking authoritatively about, you might think of the Gordon Riots in which Blake took part, following his instinctive passion to oppose authority. You could visit the Clink Prison Museum in Southwark, site of the famous Clink Prison, which like Newgate, was stormed during the Gordon Riots.

On the whole, the British people are best described as 'conservative' with a small 'c'. UK is what Margaret Thatcher once described as "The home owning democracy". She was right, because about 70 percent of the pop of UK are home owners.

As a people, I'd say we are a classic case of being a nation of natural born sceptics who are not easily swayed. We are also very slow to change, we like the same old things, a sort of continuity and for this reason we cling on to the monarchy, not because we're a bunch of royalists, but anything to stop such as Tony Blair becoming president. God save us from that.

[Left.]

Rather than look for the old stereotypes, i would suggest you just look at the current policies AND ACTIONS of all the parties, and make your mind up on that basis.

British parties often show a discrepancy between what they believe in, and what they actually do in practice.

[Charles MacAodh]

Sinn Fein!