There are loads of other parties out there, so if none of the top three takes your fancy, shop around. Here are some websites for other political parties:

The Green Party: Click Here For Website
The Green Party was established in 1973, and its current leader is Caroline Lucas. The Green Party is dedicated not only to protecting the environment, but also to promoting peace, nonviolence and social justice. What started as a party with policies only concerning environmental campaigning has spread to a more formally organized party with policies ranging from education to health to public services.

RESPECT Party: Click Here For Website
RESPECT Party: RESPECT – The Unity Coalition is a left wing political party founded in 2004. Its name stands for Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community, and Trade Unionism. The Respect party used the issue of the war in Iraq to mobilise the vote, but also promise to ‘provide a broad-based and inclusive alternative to the parties of privatisation, war, and occupation’.

Free England Party: Click Here For Website
The Free England party was formed in 2008 as an English Nationalist party with the aim of securing England’s independence from the United Kingdom and England’s withdrawal from the EU. The main policies of the Free England party include the immediate withdrawal from the EU whilst maintaining the free trade deals; an independent England with its own government; a heavily controlled immigration policy with a points system and a maximum number of immigrants and a tougher justice system.

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP): Click Here For Website
UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party): Founded in 1993, UKIP’s main aim is to withdraw the UK from the European Union and believes that the United Kingdom ‘shall again be governed by laws made to suit its own needs by its own Parliament’. UKIP’s other policies also include a wider system of nuclear power and an overhaul of the national curriculum to give schools more power.

Veritas: Click Here For Website
Formed by Robert Kilroy-Silk after he left UKIP in 2005, Veritas’s primary policy is opposition to immigration in the UK. Having developed few other policies, Veritas is often described as a ‘single issue party.

Countryside Alliance: Click Here For Website
The Countryside Alliance is a minor political party founded in 2000. The party was formed because its members perceived a lack of understanding or care about rural issues by the mainstream political parties. The party’s policies are based around rural issues, such as opposition to the fox hunting ban.

Other Parties: Click Here For Website
The BBC have a comprehensive list of all other political parties.

 

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