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Its amazing how many people don't, some people in this country don't know which party is in charge, how the system works, even who the leader of the opposition is. More worryingly a small percentage don't know who the PM is!
Do you know about the politics of your country, who is in charge, how they got in charge, their cabinet and who the general system works?
Here in the UK we have quite a simple system. In short we have, like every other country in the world three parts to governing.
The Executive (Govt)
The Legislature (House of Commons House of Lords)
The Judiciary (Law Lords)
The government unlike the US system is made up of people from the legislature. The party with the most seats on the Commons becomes the governing party. The seats are decided using an electoral system called First Past the Post. There are 646 different constituencies and all but one (the speakers) is contested. The winner of that constiunecy has a seat!
The House of Lords (now this may scare some of you !) is unelected, it has 92 heritary peers and the remainder are actually nomiated by the Prime Minister!
Do you know about the politics of your country, who is in charge, how they got in charge, their cabinet and who the general system works?
Here in the UK we have quite a simple system. In short we have, like every other country in the world three parts to governing.
The Executive (Govt)
The Legislature (House of Commons House of Lords)
The Judiciary (Law Lords)
The government unlike the US system is made up of people from the legislature. The party with the most seats on the Commons becomes the governing party. The seats are decided using an electoral system called First Past the Post. There are 646 different constituencies and all but one (the speakers) is contested. The winner of that constiunecy has a seat!
The House of Lords (now this may scare some of you !) is unelected, it has 92 heritary peers and the remainder are actually nomiated by the Prime Minister!