UK Politics

Political organisations and information

There's a General Election due on 1 May 1997. There are now a number of sites dealing with it including:

• the General Election '97 Web site (independent),
• the Financial Times' Election '97 Site
• the Guardian and Observer General Election Site and
• the BBC's 4,000 page British General Election 1997 web site, even including your own customisable "virtual swingometer"

The three main UK parties now all have web sites. You can see:

• the Conservative Party Home Page, Main Menu page and the Scottish Conservatives Home Page;
• the Labour Party Home Page and Labour Party Election Web Site; and
• the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Liberal Democrats Home Pages.

The main Nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales also have sites:

• the Scottish National Party Home Page, and a site for SNP Ayr Constituency Association and
• the Plaid Cymru Home Page (English) (also available at their New URL).

The Northern Ireland parties in particular seem to have taken to the Internet, with sites from:

• the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, which starts their page with a quote from TheWeb magazine, February 1996 - "Easily the best UK political party site so far";
• the Democratic Unionist Party;
• Labour in Northern Ireland;
• the Progressive Unionist Party;
• Sinn Féin;
• the Social Democratic and Labour Party;
• Ulster Democratic Party;
• the Ulster Unionist Party; and
• the Workers Party of Ireland.

Many of the other political parties, not represented in Parliament, also have web sites, including:

• the Green Party of England and Wales and a site for North East England Green Party;
• the Natural Law Party of the United Kingdom;
• The Official Monster Raving Loony Party;
• The Liberal Party, not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats;
• The Referendum Party; and
• The UK Independence Party.

There is a complete list of all Members of the House of Commons.

The UK Central Office of Information Home Page has non-political government information and from December 1996 Number 10 Downing Street, the office and home of the British Prime Minister also has a site offering political and other information. Even The Royal Family are now on line.

The UK Houses of Parliament's Public WWW Service, which has online access to Hansard House of Commons Reports and House of Lords Reports.

This site in Holland maintained by the Partij van de Arbeid (the Dutch Labour Party) has links to many other sources of political information, and for links to other parties try:

• Political Resources on the Net (Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world);
• Political Parties and Youth Organizations Around the World; or
• Political parties, interest groups, and other movements.

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