Spill the Tea
What does PM stand for?
Prime Minister
Conservative PM who commanded a majority in the Commons during the 1980s.
Margaret Thatcher
Civil society:
Organized life outside of the state; people meeting to associate around common interests, values, etc.
Head of State:
True or False: Britain has a single codified constitution.
False!
What does MP stand for?
Member of Parliament
Prime Minister who reinvented Labour in the 1990s.
Tony Blair
Solutions to an election that does NOT produce a majority.
Coalition or minority government.
Head of Government:
Keir Starmer, PM
True or False: The House of Lords can debate and amend legisliation.
True
Modernization Theory suggests:
As regimes modernize, they tend to become more democratic in nature.
Current PM.
The idea that upper classes are responsible for the well-being of lower classes.
Noblesse Oblige
QUANGOS stands for:
Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organization
Legislature that has two houses.
Bicameral
What does SMD stand for?
Single Member District
The 2010 election witnessed a coalition government form between which two political parties?
Conservatives and Liberal-Democrat.
UK Supreme Court functions:
Vote of No Confidence
The Fixed Terms Parliament Act:
Created a five year interval that is stationary for elections UNLESS: vote of no confidence is passed or 2/3 legislature agrees to earlier election.
What is an advantage of using FPTP/SMD elections?
Voters have a direct line to someone who represents them specifically.
Technically speaking, who appoints the PM to their position? (Think about tradition).
Monarch.
This political party is all about economic liberalization, nationalism, and attracts a great deal of "Euroskeptics."
Currently Reform, used to be UKIP!
The idea that a PM's cabinet is responsible for ruling together; can function as a check on their power when assembling support. (Encourages party-line voting).
Collective Consensus
Tony Blair's changes to Labour can be identified by two names/phrases. What are they?
New Labour and Third Way