British Politics Explained
I recognise that a lot of my readers are American so I'm going to attempt to explain British politics in an article I can reference in the future.
Right now we're at a turning point, the current traditional two parties may occupy the opposition and the leaders of the government, but take up neither second or first in the polls as things stand so how did we get here?
Labour
Labour have a historic majority that has seemingly fallen into the lap of the least competent politicians I have ever seen. I do not say this with a desire to obfuscate any of the many horrific policy decisions as stupidity, a lot of that is a careful well considered evil, but rather to gawk at the sheer awfulness of their political communication. Labour currently sit below the Tories, Green and Reform in 5th in some national polling, which given their majority last year is an unprecedented collapse. More politically savvy people may have seen this coming however, as Labours majority basically fell into their lap after the SNP and the Tories both had leadership scandals, splitting the right wing vote between the Tories and Reform whilst forcing left of centre voters (who make up the majority) in Scotland to vote Labour.
SNP & Plaid Cymru
I'm going to annoy people by putting these two together, but for now all you need to know as a newbie to British politics is that these are Scotland and Wales' left wing pro independence parties that have been picking up steam since the last election. I won't spend too much time on them since definitionally they do not seek control over the government, but separation from it.
The SNP had a leadership collapse before the last election as the husband of leader Nicola Sturgeon was arrested for embezzlement, causing a lot of constituencies to shift to Labour, but historically they exist pretty uncontested in Scotland, which is generally to the left of England and Wales in it's policy and population.
Plaid Cymru are gaining massively in Wales in response to the labour collapse of support.
The Conservatives (Tories)
The Tories had 5 pms over their last 5 years in office in what has to be one of the most insane periods in British politics. The final straw that broke the camel's back was not the scandals and austerity and racism, but the thing the British media cares most about, infighting. Reform quickly took its place however, as the balancing act the Tories were trying to implement by getting it's most discriminatory policy laundered through black and brown leaders was proving ineffective with a hard right that wanted those leaders deported. This split the Tory vote and lead to an unprecedented seat loss at the last election, they still haven't recovered and their leadership is also taking flight to Reform.
The Tories are also an example of failed IDPol, often attempting to launder its anti migrant policies through black and brown MP's only to leave both minority communities and the extremist base unconvinced.
Reform
Farage has been running interference on the far right of UK politics for 30 odd years now, slowly normalising his perspectives and shifting the entire political spectrum along with him. The architect of Brexit, both it's initial suggestion (via pressure from UKIP, his party at the time) and the Leave campaign, he is finally in a position to helm a far right party in a race for PM. Reform currently lead most polls although are starting to lose momentum, but seem to have truly replaced the Tories as the UK's largest right wing party. They are characterised by Farage's brand of anti immigrant populist rhetoric.
The Green Party
The Greens used to be a coalition between conservative conservationists (tree tories) and younger leftists. Since the election of Zack Polanski however, the party has become a much broader coalition across the left, existing in contrast to the anti trans, anti working class and anti migrant policy of Labour. The left of labour has flocked to the greens in droves, who have by far the most momentum in current polling, at times polling in second above Labour. The tree tories are slowly being axed from the party, but are still very much kicking up a fuss about it. It doesn't help that their long standing presence in the party has led to now disproportionate representation in the party's backroom leadership. Also said "tree tories" are TERFs because of course they are its Britain. Luckily though, they have yet to truly influence party policy, which is largely based on member voting. The Greens are still without a doubt the most progressive party on all fronts, including trans issues.
It's worth mentioning that Palestine is a big uniting factor across most of the membership, in the UK it's become a wedge issue as (outside of the obvious reasons) it's often a vessel for/against Islamophobic rhetoric/policy.
Your Party
I'm writing as this project, which initially started by ex Labour leader Corbyn three years too late after Zarah Sultana forced his hand, is completely collapsing. The idea I think was to play the role the Greens have found themselves in after Polanski, but unfortunately a ridiculous level of infighting has been present from the parties conception and it's never really recovered.
Restore Britain
Rupert Lowe left Reform in disgrace, after endorsing even further right thug Tommy Robinson, and formed Restore. It is for people who think the euphemisms of Reform are simply too kind, and prefer a more direct form of fascism. Interestingly though, it differs a lot structurally from other parties, Restore is an umbrella party, with each constituent Restore runs in technically having its own party entirely.
Liberal Democrats
The Lib Dems are centrists, who through Labours lurch to the right, have effectively become left of Labour, at least on social issues. Yes this party is one for the "fiscally conservative socially liberal" types. It did get a lot of traction in the last election as a result of the Tory collapse, but outside of a few privileged places looking for a cosy centrist option, the Lib Dems are looking to lose a lot of power in the next election, as Reform sweep up lost Tory voters.
In Summary:
From Left to Right
Your Party; Greens; Lib Dems; Labour; Reform; Restore