The most important Secre-laties of State are:

• The most important of the Exchequer (finance)

• The Foreign Secretary (international affairs)

• The House Secretary (international affairs)

• The Lord Chancellor (the legal system)

• The Secretary of State for Education

• The Secretary of State for Transport and the Environment

All this Secretaries for the Cabinet (Official Secretary State and Ministers) and Shadow Cabinet (form by the opposition).

Cabinet-group opposition sconces people alternative to the government.

They criticizes policy and offer to alternative policy.

The main function of Parliament are:

• to pass laws

• to provide by voting for taxation, the means of carrying on the worth at government

• to scrutinize government policy and administration, including proposals for expenditure

• to debate the major issues of the day

Parliament has two Houses (House of Lord and House of Changes).

House of Lords

• Almost 806 members (life peers, hereditary peers, law lords and bishops)

• Members are uncreated and unpaid

• Scrutinize bills approved by the House of Common, review and amends them.

The House of Commons

• Over 600 democratically elected MPs debate and make lows.

• Each MP represents a constituency after gaining most votes.

• Most MPs represent 1 of 3 main political parties.

• May 6, 2010 General Election Results:

Conservative - 36,1% (306 seats)

Labor – 29% (258 seats)

Liberal Democrats – 23% (57 seats)

House of Lords

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The House of Commons.

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Sargent of tan - place for security (House of Lords).

Black root - place for security (House of Commons)

Political parties and general election.

There are 3 major political parties of the UK:

1. Conservatives

2. Labours

3. Liberal democratic

The parliament is now a coalition between 2 parties: conservative and liber democratic.

The Prime Minister is leader of conservative party.

Besides 3 major political, there are:

The Scottish national party, the democratic union party, SinnFein - national party of the Northern Ireland.

General election pass every 5 year.

Only members is the House of Commons are elected.

The candidate elected the major votes and become MPs.

Making laws.

A propose new law is called the bill.

The bill is introduced by a first reading.

The first reading means that MPs prepared the discuss the bill.

Than comes the second reading. The bills examine and analyze by MPs in small groups.

Than comes the thirst reading that bill the debated and voted (for/against).

If major MPs favored the bill, it is pass to the House of Lords.

In the House of Lords again examine and scrutinize the bill.

After passing through the House of Lords the bill came to the Queen for the royal signature.

So 3 reading in the House of Commons – House of Lords – the royal signature.

Lecture 6

The economy of the UK.

1. economic overview

2. the financial sector

3. trade unions

4. industries

5. the economy of England, Scotland, wales and Northerner Ireland

The UK was the first country to industrialize in the 18^th and 19^th centuries and to develop a capitalism economy.

Early in the 20^th century it was overtaken by the USA and Germany.

The principles for the national economy formulated by the great gre-war economist J. M. Keynes: capitalists society could only survive if government controlled managed and planned its economy.

The mid – 1970 the Conservatives decided to break with the old economic formula completely: to lower taxes, to abolish exchange controls, to limit government spending levels and use money seep ply (the amount of money in circulation) to control inflation.