A comparison of the contemporary labour and conservative parties in britain

The long history of administrational contest in Great Britain has always been between the traditionalist and bray Parties. bailiwick leaders who were representative of both come and go in the same(p) way as the popularity of both parties rise and fall all over decades.Labor callers Tony Blair was able to bring keystone the party into the limelight where it was previously before 1970s. Its close rival party, the Conservatives has enjoyed the prestige during the seventies when the undertaking companionship made countless mistakes, or shall we say unsound decisions on apprehend slues and policies.CNN News called that particular labor issue as the partys tailspin which includes Labor-spending policies, which brought Britain to an economic situation where it shamefully needs to seek for the attention of the World Bank through a bailout loan (Blystone, Richard). A family called wintertime of Discontent which ran from 1978 to 1979 turned the popularity of the Labour societ y upside d consume. The strap thing that could ever happen as a consequence of the yearlong dissatisfy was to lose the seat in the next election.The Labour Party was losing concur as more(prenominal) and more people go to the streets and merge rallies. That year, there were about 4.6 million workers to go on strike make the British economy around 29 million workdays. Part of the protests against the Labour brass was to let their garbage remain un self-collected in the streets which orient that no one would want to go out work during those days.In 1980, the Labour Partys fear of losing the election came as had never been judge after rumblings of discontent with William Hagues leadership. Margaret Thatcher of the Conservative Party beat the Labours representative in the national elections. It was also important to mention that the Conservative Party won a majority of 33 seats in the Parliament. After Thatchers victory, the Labour Party did not gestate any chance of winnin g over the Conservatives for 18 years.Thatcher was the first woman in the British political party who work roll in hand with John Powell to bring the Conservative Party into a strong political party after losing in the 1974 elections. Conservatives have also undergone erratic relationships deep d admit the party, members come and go and move to and from other parties especially on cases where there are major disagreements in its member. With Powell and Thatcher, things got better this time. Their strategy to bring cover charge the popularity of the Conservatives was to take the opportunity to win the hearts and trust of the people during the Winter of Discontent.They made use of the media to make people believe that the government should not in any way have an involvement in the social and economic matters. Thatcher constructed a new social base of support for her party that came less from the traditional conservatives backers, the upper classes and landed gentry, than from the m iddle classes and experient workers who felt increasingly discontent and unrepresented by the traditional policies and orientations of the two major political parties (Rasmussen, et.al. 1995).Thatchers gained popularity through the Conservative Party enabled her to win the 1979 elections first, because of the discontent of the people on labor issues the year before the elections. Second, it might have been because the people wanted another leader outside the Labour government since the latter was not able to make labour concerns a antecedence in running their government. Lastly, the British have cognize Thatcher as like a shot opposed to the labour ideas of the Labour government and of course a be given have promised the people to have such labor disputes a antecedence in the next elections which they won.Thatcher was a witty leader in his hold right. She won the 1983 elections after having it scheduled at the time when victory over Falkland Islands against Argentina was stil l fresh. Timely with the British economic growth, Thatcher still move the 1987 elections which let her stay in power until 1990. But Thatcher failed to bring the Conservatives back in power in the 1990 elections. Although Thatcher was undoubtedly popular at that time, and that Thatcher was known for her sound leadership in dealing with the internal conflicts within her own party, John Major brought her down this time.There were issues which attributed Thatchers lost of support from her own party because of her hesitation to support European integration. In this regard, Thatcher compromised her political sic when she directly opposed to the general opinion of the British people towards the integration.One more thing was the Thatchers poll tax which taxed registered voters to replace property taxes collected by local councils and which was widely viewed as regressive by impose the lower income strata more heavily than the upper classes. With the leadership of John Major, the issue of poll tax was little by little eradicated.