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Introduction to UK Politics

Introduction to UK Politics. HEAD OF STATE – The Queen. House of Commons. PRIME MINISTER – Head of Government – Gordon Brown. House of Lords. Elected MPs (646 members) – of which: Labour (356) Conservative (198) Liberal Democrat (62). 735 members – Hereditary or Life Peers.

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Introduction to UK Politics

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  1. Introduction to UK Politics

  2. HEAD OF STATE – The Queen House of Commons PRIME MINISTER – Head of Government – Gordon Brown House of Lords • Elected MPs (646 members) – of which: • Labour (356) • Conservative (198) • Liberal Democrat (62) 735 members – Hereditary or Life Peers

  3. Leader: Gordon Brown MPDeputy: Harriet Harman MP

  4. Leader: David Cameron MP

  5. Leader: Nick Clegg MP

  6. Leader: Lord Pearson of Rannoch

  7. Leader: Caroline Lucas MEP

  8. Leader: Nick Griffin

  9. Jobs: • All under-25s out of work for a year to be offered work or training • More funding for job centres and sixth-form colleges • Spending/Budget: • Immediate cuts • No cut to Health. Education, Law & Order • ID Cards: • Push ahead with plan but no immediate need to make compulsory • Afghanistan: • No walk-out • Gradual hand-over of power • Troops ‘have adequate equipment’ • Health: • Maintain funding • Find £15bn - £20bn wastage • Data for performance of doctors • Tax: • 50p for earnings over £150,000 • Gradual hand-over of power • Troops ‘have adequate equipment’ • Immigration: • E-borders by 2014 • Clear asylum backlog by 2011 • Tighten entry restrictions • Education: • Save £2bn by axing senior staff • Restructuring of pay • Improve school discipline

  10. Jobs: • Scrap RDA and New Deal • Tax breaks for new and small businesses • Spending/Budget: • Immediate cuts • No cut to Health, International Development • End to subsidised food and alcohol for MPs and cut to salaries • ID Cards: • Scrap plans • Restrict storage of DNA • Health: • Maintain funding with increase by 2012 • Performance tables for every medic • Over-65’s residential costs paid for with one-off £8000 fee • Reform dentistry including school checks • Afghanistan: • Restructure withdrawal • Ensure more helicopters and equipment • Tax: • Keep current system • Some changes to pensions • Increase on alcopops and high strength beer/cider • Immigration: • Place annual limit on numbers admitted • Attract ‘brightest’ and ‘best’ migrants • New border force • Education: • Encourage privately set up schools • Failing schools to be taken over

  11. Jobs: • Guaranteed work or training for all young people out of work for more than 90 days • Spending/Budget: • Immediate cuts to all areas • Save by scrapping new building schemes, compulsory education to 18 • ID Cards: • Scrap – remove all innocent people from DNA database • Strengthen data protection • Health: • Downsize Department of Health • Ward sisters to take control of budgets • Tax breaks for living healthy lifestyles • Afghanistan: • Not ruled out walk-out – will follow US strategy • Tax: • Increase for most wealthy • Raise threshold to £10,000 • Mansion tax • Higher road/flying tax • Immigration: • Earned citizenship for illegal immigrants • New border force • Charge more for work permits and use to retrain British workers • Education: • Scrap 50% higher ed target • End selection • Scrap National Curriculum

  12. Democracy "Democracy is the most valued and also the vaguest of political terms in the modern world." (Daniel Robertson, 1986)

  13. Democracy • Based on the belief that every citizen over a certain age should has the right to vote on political issues and that the majority decision leads to law

  14. Democracy • Every citizen invited to political meetings and able to take part in free discussion

  15. Democracy • Also offers the rights to stand for political office

  16. Democracy • Applies to all regardless of gender, religious belief, race, sexuality, ability etc. • Prisoners excluded – democratic rights suspended (controversial)

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