What political parties are there in your country?

[Petrolheadia]

What political parties are there in your country? What ideologies do they have? What positions do they hold? What offices are they in?

In Poland, you have, in order of descending current support:

- Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS; Law and Justice) - Christian Democrats. Supports religious societal positions (no abortions, contraceptives, gay marriage, etc.) and liberal economic ones (baby bonus, increasing welfare and the minimum wage, high infrastructure spending and corporate tax). Has the President, 234 out of 460 MPs and 61 out of 100 senators.

- Platforma Obywatelska (PO; Citizens' Platform) - libertarianism light. Supports mildly pro-business policies, but is in favor of increasing taxation, instead of austerity. Also wants to keep the societal status quo. Has 136 out of 460 MPs and 34 out of100 senators.

- Kukiz '15 - Named after its founder, Paweł Kukiz. It groups a lot of different politicians, often single-issue, from legal marijuana advocates to nationalists, so its position can be described as "independent", although they strongly support single-member constituencies and an increased number of referendums. Has 32 out of 460 MPs.

-.Nowoczesna (.Modern) - mainly libertarian. Supports pro-business policies and a limited government. Seems to mainly be for keeping the societal status quo. Has 27 out of 460 MPs,

- Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (PSL; Polish People's Party) - agrarian. Supports pro-rural policies, like increasing farming subsidies. Has 15 out of 100 MPs and 1 out of 100 senators.

- Razem (Together) - social democratic. Has both liberal economic (increased minimal wage, higher taxation of the rich, higher welfare, etc.) and social (abortions on demand, legal homosexual marriages, legal marijuana, etc.) policies.

- Wolność (Freedom) - alt-right minarchist. Supports highly libertarian economic (secession from the EU, no minimum wage, taxes as low as possible, etc.) policies, but has both far-libertarian (legalization of all drugs, abortion, etc.) and far-right (e.g. ban on Muslim immigration, undemocratic rule) policies.

- Kongres Nowej Prawicy (KNP, New Right's Congress) - the previous party founded by Janusz Korwin-Mikke,,before he left to make Wolność. Essentially the same positions as above.

- Prawica (The Right) - a spin-off of Wolność,,with mostly the same positions.

- Twój Ruch (TR; Your Move) - centre-leftist. Supports many liberal social policies, like legalization of marijuana and homosexual marriages, and anticlericalism.

- Ruch Narodowy (Nationalist Movement) - nationalist. Supports heavily limiting immigration.

- Wolni i Solidarni (WiS; Free and Together) - social democratic. A spin-off of Kukiz '15. Supports increased taxation of the wealthy, reforming the justice system and increasing healthcare and welfare spending. Has 3 out of 460 MPs, taken from Kukiz '15.

- Unia Europejskich Demokratów (UED; Union of European Democrats) - centre-leftist. Supports increasing welfare funding, secularism and social unions. Has 4 out of 460 MPs, taken from PO.

- Republikanie (The Republicans) - centrist. Basically the same positions as Kukiz '15, plus business deregulation and simplification of the tax code. Has 3 out of 460 MPs, taken from Kukiz '15.


And how does it look in your country?

[Liberated Territories]

You have the Republicans and the Democrats. Both parties believe in expanding the power of the state over your lives. You cannot vote for anyone else, otherwise that is "wasting your vote," so you are forced to gulp down the same dogshit every four years.

[Tinhampton]

The United Kingdom? Well, there's 650 seats in the House of Commons, and you need 326 for a majority. Here's who we have:

• the Conservative Party (318 seats) - right-wing. Largest party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May; has formed a minority government with the backing of the DUP (see below) - the controversial confidence-and-supply agreement.
• the Labour Party (262 seats) - left-wing. Second-largest party, led by Jeremy Corbyn. According to them, would have won the General Election if it had been held a week earlier.
• the Scottish National Party (35 seats) - left-wing, and - big surprise here - Scottish nationalist. Led by Nicola Sturgeon in the Scottish Parliament and Ian Blackford in the Westminster Parliament. Has ridden off a wave of post-IndyRef support, even despite waning this time around.
• the Liberal Democrats (14 seats) - centrist. Formerly led by Tim Farron before his resignation; they have literally just "elected" Sir Vince Cable as leader (I say elected, he was the only willing candidate). Has gone from the old "Stronger Economy, Fairer Society" of the Conservative coalition days (where a U-turn on tuition fees saw them lose craptons of their seats) to "keeping Britain open, tolerant and united". They want us to stay in the EU somehow, or at least guarantee a second Brexit referendum.
• Plaid Cymru (4 seats) - also left-wing and Welsh nationalist. Led by Leanne Wood (almost elected First Minister by AMs) in the Assembly and Liz Saville Roberts in Westminster. Don't support an independent Wales, but sure as heck want more government funding.
• the Green Party (1 seat, that of Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavillion) - yet another left-leaning party, but this time environmentalists as well. Have two leaders (Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley), the only party to have such an arrangement. Or at least the only big one.
• Northern Ireland (17 seats): Divvied up between two parties (there are more, but they were rejected by the voters) - Sinn Fein (7 seats) are nationalists who refuse to take their seats in Parliament, whilst the Democratic Unionist Party (10 seats) are conservative unionists backing up Theresa May's government. The shit gets much deeper in Stormont...
• Until recently, UKIP used to have Douglas Carswell as an MP (and Mark Ruthless for a while), but both lost their seats (and Carswell only as an Independent). They are now seatless in Parliament, seatless in many councils (only one gain in Lancashire), and have now become a shitfest (especially leadership) now that Brexit's been voted for.
• There are also several English regional parties which support devolution for their area (and then a bit more) - Yorkshire First and Mebyon Kernow (the latter of which did not stand, citing funding concerns and their expectation that there would be no snap election) the two foremost.
• Other parties - like the British National Party, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition, and of course the Official Monster Raving Loony Party - have seen little success so far (I say little, they've still got a few councillors in, whether now or in the past). The Women's Equality Party, however, is one to watch out for in the future.

[The Sygian]

You have the Republicans and the Democrats. Both parties believe in expanding the power of the state over your lives. You cannot vote for anyone else, otherwise that is "wasting your vote," so you are forced to gulp down the same dogshit every four years.

It's quite disappointing actually. The US has a good number "parties" but we are ruled by a two party system where the two most immature, uncooperative parties are the majority. Gary Johnson, a candidate of the libertarian party, ran for presidential office this year. Some would argue that him running is a good idea and the start of proving that the two party system is bad, and others will argue the opposite. That is beside the point.

In a theoretical election in a swing state (a state that could reasonably be won by either of the two main parties' presidential candidate) where you have a "good" candidate in one party, and a "bad" candidate in the other, voting for a third party will only take votes away from the "good" candidate. Voting for a third party candidate in a "safe" state (a state where a candidate of a particular party has a vast majority of voters for his/her party regularly, so he/she can safely assume the favorable outcome of that state's vote) serves less consequences unless the third party candidate can pull a significant amount of voters that outnumber the "safe" candidate. My state is a safe state, and I do know many people that voted for a third party candidate and of course there was no outcome other than what we had expected, though he did end up getting a considerable percentage of votes in the state.

[Cetacea]

NZ Parliament has a 120 seat mixed member proportional system which means that coalitions are usually required to form the government. Those outside the coalition thus form the opposition. I've listed the seat totals for each party in the current Parliament

Government
National Party 59 seats A centre-right, conservative, classical-liberal party It supports a mixed economy market, and lower taxation particularly as a stimulus for private enterprise. Likes foreign investment and TTPA
Māori Party 2 seats A center-left party that promotes what it sees as "the rights and interests of New Zealand's indigenous people". It promotes what it sees as "the rights and interests of Māori" although for the 2017 elections it has feilded candidates from Pacific Islands and Asia. The party has a confidence and supply arrangement with the National-led government.
ACT 1 seat A classical-liberal party that promotes free market economics, low taxation, reduced government expenditure, and increased punishments for crime. The party has a confidence and supply arrangement with the National-led government.
United Future 1 seat A centrist party, formerly with a strong Christian background: it describes its platform as "common sense" and has a particular focus on the 'Traditional' family and social issues. The party has a confidence and supply arrangement with the National-led government.

Opposition
Labour Party 32 seats A centre-left, social-democratic party. It supports a mixed economy market, with taxation levied to fund particularly its social programmes.
Green Party 14 seats it supports social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence, and environmentalism.
New Zealand First 12 seats A conservative, populist party. It aims "To put New Zealand and New Zealanders First". It is strongly anti-immigration, supports benefits for senior citizens, and advocates buying back former state owned enterprises.

there are also seven parties outside of Parliament including the Legalize Cannabis Party, Conservative Party, Internet Party and the newly formed The Opportunities Party (TOP) founded by social philanthropist Gareth Morgan to contest the next elections

[Sanctissima]

I live in Canada. There's many registered federal parties, but only three main ones, them being the Conservative Party, Liberal Party and New Democratic Party. The first two's political ideologies are self-explanatory, and the latter is mostly composed of Democratic Socialists. There's also a fairly sizable Green Party and the Bloc Québécois. The former being mostly composed of Left-leaning environmentalists and the latter of separatists.

[Kennlind]

I live in Scotland so we have a few

SNP - centre-left bourgeois enabling Scottish separatists that hate Catholics and good education
the Tories - (allegedly) conservatives, like their puppetmasters in Westminster they endorsing the killing of Catholics, and they hate poor people
Labour - once dominated Scottish politics, they're a meme now. centre-left social democrats that keep taking major Ls
Liberal Democrats - always been a minor party in Scottish politics, and like in Westminster, they're irrelevant
Scottish Greens - left-wing, environmentalist nationalists. I'd probably vote for them since I agree with their economic and environmental policies and the Scottish Socialist Party doesnt stand a chance
Solidarity - once held a few seats as the Scottish Socialist Party, led by the infamous Tommy Sheridan they're a good minor party. Euroskeptic socialists, shame theyre trotskyists
RISE - Ecosocialist Republicans, they're alright, not as relevant as the already irrelevant Solidarity. I volunteered for them in 2016

[Diopolis]

We have two major parties. They are:
The democrats, an alliance between minorities they pretend to care about by pandering, and rich white people who want poor white people kept in their place. Favors economic policies that are very, very good for overeducated, middle class, and young people, slightly better for the urban poor, pretty bad for the rural dwellers, and irrelevantly different from the republicans for everyone else. Socially pretty far to the left on pelvic and gender issues, as long as there's a minimum amount of effort the government has to go to, and moderately left wing on every other social issue.
The republicans, an alliance between poor white people their policies are slightly less harmful to than the democrats, and the more sociopathic breed of rich white people, and poor minorities who didn't get there by being celebrities. Economics are very, very good for rich white people, at least not actively harmful for rural dwellers, and pretty bad for the urban poor. Socially talks about being right wing, but it can't seem to follow through on it.
Both parties are identical about foreign policy, but the republicans will raise the military budget while they invade a foreign country, while the democrats will pretend they're going to cut it.
We also have three major small parties. They are:
Constitutionalists are an alliance of moderate traditionalist Catholics, the more extreme sort of protestant fundamentalists, and old fashioned old right conservatives. Socially pretty far to the right, but not ultraconservative enough for most of their traddy base and about half of their protestant supporters. They talk about being committed to capitalism, but it's hard to tell what their actual economic policy is beyond isolationism. Big, big fans of isolationism. The last bastion of big-C Conservatism in the US.
Libertarians are marijuana obsessed and loveable. Their social policy is generally pretty libertarian, their economics likewise with the odd paleoconservative influence.
Greens run the gamut from reasonable European center left types to enviro-nutjobs and moonbats. Unfortunately, the latter control the party. They support left wing pseudoscience, and left wing policies in general. Often comes off as being run by delusional hippies.

[Kennlind]

The Women's Equality Party, however, is one to watch out for in the future.[/list]

lol they got like 5k votes nationwide, most they got in a single constituency was 1k, even in SCOTLAND they only got 300 in a constituency.

[United Muscovite Nations]

Democrats and Republicans.

Former is undergoing a shift, hard to tell how far socially liberal they will go, but, in 20 years, they've gone from being against gay marriage and anti-illegal immigration, to being universally pro-LGBT, against abortion restrictions, and for open-borders.

Latter are a bunch of Reaganites.

Both are awful.

[Al Hiwariyya al oula]

I live in Lebanon, a country known for its sectorial diversity and sect based system. Political parties are mainly based on sects and/or religions:

We have two alliances: 14 March and 8 March
I'm going to list the main parties

14 March alliance (closer to Saudi Arabia, US/NATO)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14_Alliance

Future Movement (Tayyar Al Mustaqbal): Right wing political party believes in strong privatization and has been responsible of the strongly controversial privatization of the center of Beirut to Solidere (a corporation that was created for this end) and other utilities (mobile phones and public works). Although the party claims to be secular, more than 90% of its members are Sunni Muslims.
The party revolves around the Hariri family (a Sunni family with huge assets). The leader of the party is Saad el Hariri who is the head of the government.

Lebanese Force (Al Kouwat Al Loubnaniyya): Right-wing / Christian democracy / Lebanese nationalism political party that is known for its call to demilitarize Hezbollah (will be mentioned later) and a strongly christian (maronite) party. It has stemmed from Kataeb during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). The leades is Samir Geagea, who was imprisoned during the civil war and came out years after.

Kataeb Party (Phalangists): Right-wing/Lebanese nationalism/national conservatism Christian party that existed before the civil war and also calls for the demilitarization of Hezbollah. The party revolves around the Gemayyel family.

8 March Alliance (closer to Syria, Iran and Russia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8_Alliance

Free patriotic movement (AlTayyar AlWatani AlHorr): Center-right part with over 90% of members being Christians. Most of the top seats in the party are taken by the 'Oon family and General Michel 'Oon who became the president of the republic.

Amal Movement (Haraket Amal): The party which claims to be secular is center-right with over 90% of its members being Muslim Shias. The party revolves around and is lead by Nabih Berry who is the head of parliament.

Hezbollah (The party of God): An Islamic party with leftist tendencies with over 90% of members being Shia Muslims. Heavily armed party that fought Israel since its foundation in 1982.

*** Not part of any alliance now ***
The progressive socialist party (El hizb el takaddoumi el echtiraki): Although officially secular, 90% of members are Druze. It is a center-left party that revolves around the Jumblatt family with its leader Taymur Jumblatt after being Walid Jumblatt who was preceded by Kamal Jumblatt.

You can find more information on Wikipedia

[Liriena]

Oh, gawd, Argentine political parties are a clustercuss... but I'll give this a shot.

First of all, there's the Cambiemos (Let's Change) coalition, which is the government's coalition and the largest minority in the Chamber of Deputies, but only has 15 seats in the 72-seat Senate. It's somewhere between center and center-right in the political spectrum. They won the 2015 elections, largely because they presented themselves as a technocratic alternative to the past twelve years of Kirchnerism, at a time when much of the public opinion had turned against Kirchnerism in the face of widespread corruption scandals and an ailing economy. Over the past year and a half, however, public confidence in them has started to wane as the economy has worsened, they have failed to deliver on some of their bigger promises, and have gotten into fights with labor unions. Many on the left criticize the Cambiemos government as incompetent, thinly veiled reactionary and authoritarian. Three parties comprise it:

- The Radical Civic Union, a century-old social liberal/social democratic party. They were a major party throughout the 20th century, repeatedly winning the presidency and usually having a decent amount of representation in Congress and on the provincial level. The party's overall political leaning has never really been set in stone, and its members have historically ranged from constitutional conservatives to progressive populists. They've been losing ground for years, to the point that they didn't even make second place in the 2011 presidential elections despite having the son of a fairly revered president as their candidate. It's a pretty common cliché to say that they are a well-meaning bunch, but utterly incapable of holding onto power (as demonstrated by the fact that only one of their presidents ever got to fulfill their term in office).

- The Republican Proposal, a relatively new center-right party, being only twelve years old. It's incumbent president Mauricio Macri's party and has been the ruling party in the city of Buenos Aires for a decade. They made a lot of gains over the years, largely because of their very effective "modern" campaigning style, but their core support is still pretty much concentrated in the urban upper and upper-middle classes.

- The Civic Coalition, a nominally center-left party that's now mostly a vehicle for Lilita Carrió, an anti-corruption advocate. They were actually a major opposition party in the first half of the Kirchner years, but their popular support collapsed in 2011, when Carrió got less than 2% of the vote in the presidential elections.

Then you have the Front for Victory, the fourteen-year-old center-left coalition that gave us the two Kirchner presidents (Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner), and currently holds 72 deputies, half of the Senate and half of the country's governorships. The coalition is mostly comprised of people from the Justicialist Party (that is, the Peronists), but also includes the Communist Party and members of the Radical Civic Union and the Socialist Party. Where Cambiemos is conservative or neoliberal (supporting free market policies, cuts to public spending, labor deregulation, social conservatism and financing state projects with foreign credit), the Front for Victory is progressive (supporting protectionist trade policies, a strong welfare state to boost domestic consumption, strong labor laws, social liberalism and financing state projects with the state's own reserves). The coalition is very popular among the poor and working class, and benefits a lot from the Peronist political power structure, specially in the provinces of the Interior (that is, outside of Buenos Aires' sphere of influence) and the Buenos Aires suburban areas. Their popularity often suffered because of repeated corruption scandals, inflation, crime, and many perceiving that they had authoritarian tendencies.

UNA is a new center-right party, led by Sergio Massa, deputy for the province of Buenos Aires, former mayor of Tigre and former Chief of Cabinet during the Kirchner years, and José Manuel de la Sota, governor of Córdoba. They are essentially a union of dissident Peronists and center-right parties. They are widely seen as the third major force national politics, with two governors, three senators and thirty-seven deputies, with the power to swing elections and legislative fights between the Kirchnerists and Cambiemos. Recently, UNA formed a coalition with some center-left anti-Kirchnerist parties for the upcoming midterm elections.

The Justicialist Party, which I already mentioned before, is not entirely under the umbrella of the Front for Victory. In fact, several there are several members of the party, along with provincial parties aligned with it, who work outside of both the Front for Victory and UNA. These non-Kirchnerist Peronists mostly belong to the old guard of the Peronist movement; that is, they are staunch defenders of the labor movement and the welfare state, but they've stayed away from the more distinctly progressive, "pink tide" rhetoric and policies of the Kirchnerists. To this day, these Peronists haven't really been able to challenge the Kirchnerists' political supremacy on a large scale, but they have managed to maintain several footholds. The Justicialist Party as a whole, much like the Radical Civic Union, has never really had its political leanings set in stone, at least beyond following the example set by Juan Domingo Perón himself. Like the Radical Civic Union, it has repeatedly dominated Argentine politics throughout much of the 20th century, and during that time the party has been laborist, crypto-fascist, revolutionary socialist, neoliberal and progressive.

The Socialist Party by itself only holds four deputies and one governorship right now, but throughout its history it has been a fairly significant presence in our politics, specially before the rise of Peronism. Right now, the party is part of the Progressives coalition led by Margarita Stolbizer, currently a deputy for the province of Buenos Aires, adding up to eight deputies and one senator. The Progressives are pretty much your standard social democrats, with the distinction that Stolbizer herself is, much like Carrió, a staunch anti-corruption advocate. For the upcoming midterm elections, the Progressives formed an alliance with UNA.

Finally, there's the Worker's Left Front, a coalition of Trotskyist parties who oppose both the Kirchnerists and the anti-Kirchnerists. They currently have four deputies. They began to make small gains during the Cristina Fernandez presidency, going as far as actually surpassing the Civic Coalition in the 2011 elections, and the Progressives and dissident Peronists in the 2015 elections, in their share of the popular vote for the presidency.

There are many other minor parties with some representation in our National Congress, but all of them are aligned one way or another. For instance, Pino Solanas' Proyecto Sur, a progressive environmentalist party, has usually been aligned with the Civic Coalition and the Radical Civic Union.

Our politics have repeatedly become polarized over the past century, but only in rare occasions has this translated into an actual two-party system. While there's currently a marked polarization between Kirchnerists and anti-Kirchnerists, neither side has consolidated into a single unified movement. Cristina Fernandez herself, for instance, is now competing with her former Minister of Interior in the province of Buenos Aires, and Cambiemos competes with the alliance between UNA and the Progressives for the anti-Kirchnerist vote.

Despite arguably being a conservative country in many respects, with serious problems in terms of racism, machismo and authoritarianism, we Argies don't really have any significant far right parties. The only far right party that's ever in the news is Bandera Vecinal (Neighbourly Flag), an ultranationalist party led by actual neo-nazi Alejandro Biondini (yes, that's a real picture). Biondini formerly led the Nuevo Triunfo (New Triumph) party, which was explicitly, unironically neo-nazi and got rightfully banned for it in 2009. Then, in 2014, he founded Neighbourly Flag, this time without an explicitly neo-nazi platform, instead presenting the party as nationalist, anti-communist and anti-capitalist. This time around the party didn't get banned, and it was actually allowed to participate in the 2015 elections (with the slogan "Argentina first!", because of course). They went on to get only a little over twenty thousand votes in the compulsory open primaries, and thus got disqualified from participating in the first round of the actual elections.

With the upcoming midterm elections, Biondini is campaigning again... and this time around he's gotten involved in some ridiculously evil shenanigans. See, the thing about the compulsory, simultaneous open primaries is that the national state has to pay for every party's primary ballots. Meaning that, if a party presents five different lists of candidates for a province's Senate seats, the state has to pay for the millions of ballots for each of those lists, even if the party as a whole is polling below 1% and is doomed to be disqualified in the primaries.

So what did Biondini and his party do? Well, he presented himself as Neighbourly Flag's one and only candidate for deputy in the province of Buenos Aires... and presented six lists of candidates for the province's Senate seats. That means that the party was technically entitled to print over eighty million ballots and receive almost twenty million Argentine pesos (well over a million American dollars) of national state funds to do so. All this despite the fact that Neighbourly Flag is so unpopular it doesn't even get to show up in polls.

The good news is that the courts almost immediately called them out on the obvious cash-grabbing dick move and denied them the funds.

[MERIZoC]

The Democrats and *Bill Maher voice* the Republicaaannns.

[Liriena]

I must say, given the things two-party systems do to other countries, I've come to appreciate our own current clustercuss.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

The only two we deserve, but not the ones we need right now.

[Minoa]

The United Kingdom? Well, there's 650 seats in the House of Commons, and you need 326 for a majority. Here's who we have:

• the Conservative Party (318 seats) - right-wing. Largest party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May; has formed a minority government with the backing of the DUP (see below) - the controversial confidence-and-supply agreement.
• the Labour Party (262 seats) - left-wing. Second-largest party, led by Jeremy Corbyn. According to them, would have won the General Election if it had been held a week earlier.
• the Scottish National Party (35 seats) - left-wing, and - big surprise here - Scottish nationalist. Led by Nicola Sturgeon in the Scottish Parliament and Ian Blackford in the Westminster Parliament. Has ridden off a wave of post-IndyRef support, even despite waning this time around.
• the Liberal Democrats (14 seats) - centrist. Formerly led by Tim Farron before his resignation; they have literally just "elected" Sir Vince Cable as leader (I say elected, he was the only willing candidate). Has gone from the old "Stronger Economy, Fairer Society" of the Conservative coalition days (where a U-turn on tuition fees saw them lose craptons of their seats) to "keeping Britain open, tolerant and united". They want us to stay in the EU somehow, or at least guarantee a second Brexit referendum.
• Plaid Cymru (4 seats) - also left-wing and Welsh nationalist. Led by Leanne Wood (almost elected First Minister by AMs) in the Assembly and Liz Saville Roberts in Westminster. Don't support an independent Wales, but sure as heck want more government funding.
• the Green Party (1 seat, that of Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavillion) - yet another left-leaning party, but this time environmentalists as well. Have two leaders (Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley), the only party to have such an arrangement. Or at least the only big one.
• Northern Ireland (17 seats): Divvied up between two parties (there are more, but they were rejected by the voters) - Sinn Fein (7 seats) are nationalists who refuse to take their seats in Parliament, whilst the Democratic Unionist Party (10 seats) are conservative unionists backing up Theresa May's government. The shit gets much deeper in Stormont...
• Until recently, UKIP used to have Douglas Carswell as an MP (and Mark Ruthless for a while), but both lost their seats (and Carswell only as an Independent). They are now seatless in Parliament, seatless in many councils (only one gain in Lancashire), and have now become a shitfest (especially leadership) now that Brexit's been voted for.
• There are also several English regional parties which support devolution for their area (and then a bit more) - Yorkshire First and Mebyon Kernow (the latter of which did not stand, citing funding concerns and their expectation that there would be no snap election) the two foremost.
• Other parties - like the British National Party, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition, and of course the Official Monster Raving Loony Party - have seen little success so far (I say little, they've still got a few councillors in, whether now or in the past). The Women's Equality Party, however, is one to watch out for in the future.

There is also the notorious Britain First party, where its leader turned back against the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan when he delivered his acceptance speech because Khan was also the first Muslim to hold the post. Britain First is notoriously anti-Islam, and posts misleading stories using footage from unrelated events. The comments by Britain First's followers of their Facebook page are so extremely vile that I cannot describe it in detail without breaking the rules here (e.g. racist nicknaming, gloating in response to the Finsbury Park attack).

[Sovaal]

You have the Republicans and the Democrats. Both parties believe in expanding the power of the state over your lives. You cannot vote for anyone else, otherwise that is "wasting your vote," so you are forced to gulp down the same dogshit every four years.

^

And everything is political nowadays.

[States of Glory]

What political parties are in the UK? All the bad ones.

[Darussalam]

Indonesia has political parties of various colors and stripes that largely serve as the tools of the wealthy and the powerful to become even wealthier and more powerful by milking the state's coffers. Generally they have similar platform and policies: populist nationalism, authoritarian developmentalism, economic protectionism, conservative religious rhetorics, and the expansion of subsidies and privileges to the country's political elite at all cost.

[Galloism]

Democrats, who are against the 2nd amendment of the constitution, and Republicans, who are against all the rest of the amendments.

Then there's the irrelevant ones.

[New haven america]

The shitty ones.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Democrats, who are against the 2nd amendment of the constitution, and Republicans, who are against all the rest of the amendments.

Then there's the irrelevant ones.

Not many of the Dems seem very on board with the 4th amendment either.

[New haven america]

Democrats, who are against the 2nd amendment of the constitution, and Republicans, who are against all the rest of the amendments.

Then there's the irrelevant ones.

Not many of the Dems seem very on board with the 4th amendment either.

Since when have Democrats said they're against search warrants? Aren't they the ones who want to be tougher on police? (Bodycams, regulations, etc...)

[Washington Resistance Army]

Not many of the Dems seem very on board with the 4th amendment either.

Since when have Democrats said they're against search warrants? Aren't they the ones who want to be tougher on police? (Bodycams, regulations, etc...)

Since a great many of them supported the PATRIOT Act, it passed the Senate 98-1.

[Kennlind]

The United Kingdom? Well, there's 650 seats in the House of Commons, and you need 326 for a majority. Here's who we have:

• the Conservative Party (318 seats) - right-wing. Largest party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May; has formed a minority government with the backing of the DUP (see below) - the controversial confidence-and-supply agreement.
• the Labour Party (262 seats) - left-wing. Second-largest party, led by Jeremy Corbyn. According to them, would have won the General Election if it had been held a week earlier.
• the Scottish National Party (35 seats) - left-wing, and - big surprise here - Scottish nationalist. Led by Nicola Sturgeon in the Scottish Parliament and Ian Blackford in the Westminster Parliament. Has ridden off a wave of post-IndyRef support, even despite waning this time around.
• the Liberal Democrats (14 seats) - centrist. Formerly led by Tim Farron before his resignation; they have literally just "elected" Sir Vince Cable as leader (I say elected, he was the only willing candidate). Has gone from the old "Stronger Economy, Fairer Society" of the Conservative coalition days (where a U-turn on tuition fees saw them lose craptons of their seats) to "keeping Britain open, tolerant and united". They want us to stay in the EU somehow, or at least guarantee a second Brexit referendum.
• Plaid Cymru (4 seats) - also left-wing and Welsh nationalist. Led by Leanne Wood (almost elected First Minister by AMs) in the Assembly and Liz Saville Roberts in Westminster. Don't support an independent Wales, but sure as heck want more government funding.
• the Green Party (1 seat, that of Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavillion) - yet another left-leaning party, but this time environmentalists as well. Have two leaders (Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley), the only party to have such an arrangement. Or at least the only big one.
• Northern Ireland (17 seats): Divvied up between two parties (there are more, but they were rejected by the voters) - Sinn Fein (7 seats) are nationalists who refuse to take their seats in Parliament, whilst the Democratic Unionist Party (10 seats) are conservative unionists backing up Theresa May's government. The shit gets much deeper in Stormont...
• Until recently, UKIP used to have Douglas Carswell as an MP (and Mark Ruthless for a while), but both lost their seats (and Carswell only as an Independent). They are now seatless in Parliament, seatless in many councils (only one gain in Lancashire), and have now become a shitfest (especially leadership) now that Brexit's been voted for.
• There are also several English regional parties which support devolution for their area (and then a bit more) - Yorkshire First and Mebyon Kernow (the latter of which did not stand, citing funding concerns and their expectation that there would be no snap election) the two foremost.
• Other parties - like the British National Party, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition, and of course the Official Monster Raving Loony Party - have seen little success so far (I say little, they've still got a few councillors in, whether now or in the past). The Women's Equality Party, however, is one to watch out for in the future.

There is also the notorious Britain First party, where its leader turned back against the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan when he delivered his acceptance speech because Khan was also the first Muslim to hold the post. Britain First is notoriously anti-Islam, and posts misleading stories using footage from unrelated events. The comments by Britain First's followers of their Facebook page are so extremely vile that I cannot describe it in detail without breaking the rules here (e.g. racist nicknaming, gloating in response to the Finsbury Park attack).

The most votes they had is 1.2%, they are NOT notorious in any way. they're irrelevant.