VY_32_INOVACE_14 -06 POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE UK Government

VY_32_INOVACE_14 -06 POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE UK Government Political Parties Policy of the UK

1. Parliament The government of the United Kingdom is devided into 3 main branches: legislative, executive and judicial § the supreme legislative authority = parliament § law – making body, one of the oldest parliaments, established in 1295 § seat: Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London § includes: a) the Queen and b) Chambers q The House of Lords – aristocracy, peers = Lords Temporal / life 650, hereditery 89/, Lords Spiritual = 26 bishops, red and gold, limited power /delays laws for 6 months/ q The Lord Speaker – head of H. of L. q q The House of Commons – 650 elected MPs /523 Engl, 38 Wal, 72 Scot, 17 N. Ir. /, more power, green and brown, Speaker, debates laws, taxes, passes laws, revises Governm. work a proposed law = a bill –> H. of Com. –> H. of L. –> Queen –> signs = law = Act of Parliament

Houses of Parliament Autor: Darina Sikorová

House of Lords Chamber Autor: UK Parliament, Název: House of Lords chamber - toward throne. jpg Zdroj: http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File: House_of_Lords_chamber__toward_throne. jpg House of Commons Chamber Autor: UK Parliament, Název: House of Commons. jpg Zdroj: http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File: House_of_Commons. jpg

2. Government § the supreme executive authority, responsible to parliament § a single party govern. , leader - Prime Minister (PM) - elected from the winning party, 90 -100 people - H. of L. or H. of Com. § PM - appoints 15 -20 ministers = Cabinet, meet once a week seat: 10 Downing St. , responsible for all govern. decisions, runs the country § Opposition = Shadow Cabinet § Departments: Foreign Office /F. Secretary/ Home Office / H. Secr. / Minister of Defence, Education. , Agric. , the Chancellor of the Exchequer § General elections - ev. 5 years, winn. party= governm. , to choose PM voting – polling day

10 Downing Street Autor: Prime Minister`s Office, Název: 2010 Official Downing Street pic. jpg Zdroj: http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: 2010_Official_Downing_Stree t_pic. jpg

3. Courts § the judicial authority – Supreme Court of the United Kingdom the highest court to appeal except Scottish criminal cases => Scottland – High Court of Justiciary 12 Law Lords, no Minister of Justice, imprisonment = life sentence = the highest punishment X US – death penalty 65% people support reintroduction of death penalty for murder

Political Parties § Conservative – right, rich, capitalists, no changes § Labour – left, working class + inteligentsia, reformist party, socialists § Liberal Democrats – centre, EU, all classes § other - Communist, Green, nationalists, the Catholic Social Democratic, … § Plaid Cymru – Wales, Unionists - N. I. , Scottish National Party – Scotland § history: Whigs and Tories

UK and policy § Member of: NATO UNESCO EU - 1973, laws related to economic and social matters X driving on the left, old measuring units, its own currency § Changes: Scotland – its own parliament 1999 Welsh Assembly, N. I. Assembly

Scottish Parliament Building Autor: D. Sikorová

Thank you for your attention. Autor DUM: Mgr. Darina Sikorová