What is the British equivalent of Sam's Club/Kroger/Walmart?
Asda is the part of the Walmart family, it's pretty much the British version of Walmart. And is one of the most popular ones our here in the UK. And then the other 3 big popular ones are Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsburys and less popular but also big supermarket chains are Co-op, Lidls, Aldi's, Icelands and Waitroses (quite expensive) Waitrose as it's quite expensive, if you looking for cheapness I would go Lidls or Aldis (and they are not bad places, Aldis and Lidls are seen as "bad" by some because the food is not brand but it is but because its imported food from Europe it's just not brand in the UK and are big supermarkets chains in mainland Europe -the guy who owns Aldi's is the 10 richest guys in the world)
Is the Canadian Liberal Party closer to the British Labour or Conservative party?
It is very hard to say given that Britain’s two main parties were both, until Brexit, run by indistinguishable upper class public school/Oxford University nobs. But with the ever-divisive far-left Jeremy Corbyn heading up the Labour Party and the more right-leaning Theresa (‘Don’t call me Margaret Thatcher’) May in the Conservative Party’s driver’s seat, the two parties are likely to become somewhat more differentiated.At its heart, Canada’s Liberal Party aligns with Britain’s Labour Party, but the Liberals are nothing if not pragmatic, so some of their policies now look like Labour policies and some like Tory policies. It would be interesting to see a policy-by-policy comparison.
What's the American republic party equivalent to a British party?
Probably none. The same would be true in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The “right wing” parties of these English speaking countries are quite to the left of the Republicans in the U.S. It is a result of years of two major parties battling for the allegiance of “the middle.” It is democracy as evolution, as it were. The truth is that many left wing parties in these countries are also not as far left as people like Elizabeth Warren. They also have had to fight for the middle. What happens is these parties tend to trade positions to gain votes. When they are in power they do what they want, and the other side resists almost everything. They even resist when the ruling part takes a position the opposition held vehemently just a couple of years prior. It is a fruit of the Westminster Parliamentary system, where government is either winner-take-all or coalition deals are struck with more minor parties in order to gain enough votes to form a government. American government is a bit more direct and has checks and balances that make, among other things, gridlock possible. As a result, American parties tend to define themselves ideologically to a much greater degree and move toward the center much more slowly.
Can you compare American and British political parties?
Not easily.The classic answer is the one given by Peter Cook in the 1960s and it’s still largely true today:“You see, in America you have a two party system. You have the Republicans who are the equivalent of our Conservative party and you have the Democrats who are the equivalent of our Conservative party.”Listing our main parties from right to left:The Conservatives are the party that stretches back to the Tories, supporters of the Court over the Parliament in the days following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. They are business-friendly in way that just skirts outright corruption, believe in authority, lowering taxes especially for people who don’t need it and have a habit of abolishing ‘unnecessary regulation’ in a way that leads to disasters that everybody but them could see coming. See the recent wave of acid attacks as proof.The Liberal Democrats are an amalgam between the descendants of the Whigs who were the opposition to the Tories back in the day and a splinter group of ‘social democrats’ who left the Labour party back in the 1980s because they were too middle class for the middle class revolutionaries who were then trying to run it. The LibDems are split between the two factions and are currently trying to recover from unwisely having gone into coalition with the Tories and failing to get anything out of it.The Labour party was founded at the start of the last century and came to be the second most powerful party after the schism and collapse of the Liberals following WWI. Their original power base was with the trade unions but the Tories screwed the unions over in the 80s and that in turn screwed over the Labour party. They range from people who I can’t distinguish from Tories to full scale revolutionaries. Despite what you may have heard they are not dominated by the second group though they are currently more left-wing than they have been in a generation and possibly a good thing too. There isn’t really an equivalent of them in the US which is a pity.Then there are the nationalist parties from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and behind that the small parties, mostly single issue who aren’t quite as screwed in a parliamentary system as in the US as they do occasionally get to elect MPs.I would say that the Republican party is far to the right of the Conservatives and the Trump wing is in among the UKIP and far right nationalist parties. The Democrats are somewhere between the LibDems and the Labour party.
Are the British National Party (BNP) racist?
- I am an undergrad. I don't expect you to believe me any more fthan you did before, but I am. - Yeah, a lot of students are sheltered politically, hence why I am asking the question. Both sides have good points and I am trying to get a balanced view of popular opinion by asking people outside of my own peer group and family; both of whom have equaly valid and flawed arguments. - For those of you wishing me to listen to my father - if I wasn't listening to him, do you think I would have mentioned that he likes a lot of the BNP policies? I had a conversation with him recently where he showed that he knew even less than I do about them though... I ended up sending him a few links myself; hence why I am cautious about just taking his opinion as the one I should be following. I am asking this because I am unwilling to accept only what one group says - I want to see some diverse opinions. Thankyou to those who are answering without accusing me of stupidity, regardless of your opinions.