Europe is of course made up of many countries each with their own political system . Some countries allow you to vote for multiple groups meaning you can support your favourite party without risking the party you dislike winning because of you . However , I ' m British and we use first past the post like the US but we still have multiple parties by tradition . If you wanted to read moreThe main two are the Conservatives and Labour . They control the vast majority of seats between them but the other parties still have influence . The Conservatives like to present themselves as the probusiness party while Labour says it is the party for the working man . The third most important party has been the Liberal Democrats who have been seen as a middle ground . However , they suffered catastrophically in the last election due to some compromises they made with the Conservative party . They have been overtaken by the Scottish Nationalists who want Scottish independence and are quite leftwing . There is also the United Kingdom Independence Party who don ' t like the EU who get a decent proportion of the votes but due to firstpast the post only have one seat . There are also a handful of Irish parties and of course the Green party has one seat . I ' m quite leftwing and I think the conservatives are wrong about a lot of things but I can respect that most of them are decent people who are doing what they think is best . It was during a Conservative government that we got gay marriage . I don ' t respect the US republican party though I think they ' ve been taken over by religious nuts and are working for their voters rather than the good of the country as a whole .