Someone help me out
1) Does N/ Ireland participate in the UK Parlaiment?
2) If yes, how many seats do they have, and what parties run?
3) What are the approximate positions of the LibDems, Conservatives, and Labour?
4) What parties do well in Wales and Scotland.
Help is appreciated.
1. Yes (although Sinn Fein don't take their seats, although they do take offices so they can do constituency work etc)
2. About 17 IIRC (maybe 18). None of the mainland parties run. Main parties in NI: DUP, SF, UUP, SDLP
3. Labour: Democratic Socialists, lot's of different factions (everything from openly Marxist (although these guys don't have any power within the Party) to Clinton/DLC-like Third Wayers. Tends to be socially moderate (although, again, there are big contrasts).
LibDems: Socially liberal, tend to be somewhat right wing on economics (although there's a lot of variation on that), and there's also a wing of rural centrists.
Tories: Generally speaking socially and economically conservative, although there's a large almost Libertarian wing and (traditionally. Not many of these guys left) a wing which more-or-less translates into "Rockefeller Republicans" (Wet/One Nation Tories).
4. Labour are by far the biggest party in both (especially Wales) because of the large industrial/ex-mining areas in both countries. There are Nationalist parties in both (a lot smaller in Wales than Scotland), the LibDems do well with Sheep Farmers in Wales and Crofters in Scotland... while the Tories have collapsed in both recently.
