Government and institutions
The constitution:
- Forfatning/grundlov
- Unwritten and flexible
- Different sources
Constitutional Monarchy
- Queen Elizabeth II
- The Queen reigns(regerer) but she does not rule(styre)
- At the top of society, but has no real power(informal power)
- Her formal roles are:
- Sign the laws
- Appoint(udnævne) ministers
- Open and close the parliament
- Give a speech on behalf of the Prime Minister
- Head of the executive(police), the judiciary(judges), the legislature(politicians), (svarer til den lovgivende-, den dømmende- og den udøvende magt)
- Commander-in-chief of the armed forces, head of the army
- Head of the church of England
Konstitutionelt monarki: styreform hvor en monarks magt er kraftigt indskrænket af forfatningen
Parliament
- Bi-cameral, two houses
- House of Commons
- 646 members, democratically elected by the people
- Pass/make laws
- Control the state finances
- Scrutinize government(holder øje med regeringen)
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- 725 members called peers, unelected
- Debate current issues
- Gives advices to house of commons, gives ideas for new laws and so on
- Scrutinize bills from the house of commons
- Pass legislation(can only delay, but not veto, a bill)
- How do you get a seat: You can inherit a seat(the nobility), be a bishop, be a judge
The electoral system
- You are elected for five years
- 646 constituencies(valgkredse)
- First-past-the-post system/winner-take-it-all system, only the person who wins/with the most votes, goes into the parliament(so all votes cast on the losers are lost, unlike in Denmark), makes it difficult for small parties to get in to the Parliament
Government and cabinet
- 20-22 ministries
- Each has a senior minister and a number of junior ministers
- Head of government = Prime Minister
- Lives in Downing Street No 10
Political parties
- Two main parties
- The Conservative Party/the Tory Party
- Right-of-centre
- A bit like Venstre
- The Conservative Party/the Tory Party
- The Labour Party
- Left-of-centre
- A bit like Socialdemokratiet
The British School system
The state system
- Free, you don’t have to pay
The private system
- You have to pay
- Also called public school(although it is not public but private)
- Often boarding schools
- Examples: Harrow School, Eton School
Grammar school
Faith School
Secondary School
Primary School
The Skinhead Movement – Text: Under the skin
Typical skinhead clothes:
- Knittet shirt with v-neck, Ben Sherman Shirt
- Knee-high boots
- Flying jackets
- Severely shaved head
- Skinny trousers
Skinheads
- Aggressive attitude
- Working class
- To be a skinhead is like a religion
This is England
Shaun
- Main character
- Mother
- Father(dead)
The group:
Woody
Milky(black)
Lol, Woody’s girlfriend
Gadget
Smell(Michelle)
Puke
The other group:
Combo
Banjo(Combos friend from prison)
Mindmap
Queen Elizabeth in America
- Became queen when she was very young
- When the Queen was young, she liked power, likes being queen
- Likes power = like champaign
- The Queen and Churchill spend a lot of time talking to each other, liked talking to each other
- Most former Prime Ministers say they like talking to her
- Only informal power
- Great personality
Government and Institutions
- Queen Elizabeth II, reigns but does not rule
- Head of the executive
- Commander-in-chief of the armed forces
- Head of the church of England
- Constitutional monarchy
- Parliament, two houses, bicameral
- House of commons, 646 members
- House of lords, 725
- Two main parties
- The conservative party
- The labour party
- You are elected for five years
- 646 constituencies(valgkredse)
- Vote system = winner takes it all
- 20-22 ministries
- Head of government = Prime Minister
- Lives in Downing Street No 10
The uniform approach work
- State schools, low academic standards
- School uniforms as a social leveller
- Competitive sport important as well
- House system, school divided into different houses
- Needed more financial freedom
British public schools top world lists
- Public school = private school
- You pay to go to school, expensive
- Often boarding schools
- High academic standards
- Better teachers that in the state schools
- Best in the world
- 7%
- Big gap between private schools and state schools
Under the skin
- Skinheads
- Aggressive attitude
- Working class
- To be a skinhead is like a religion
- Paki Basher
- Some of them are racist
- Music, Jamaican ska
- Influenced the history
- Influenced the fashion
- Today their style is adopted by some gay as an extreme form of masculinitymen
- Typical skinhead clothes:
- Knittet shirt with v-neck, Ben Sherman Shirt
- Knee-high boots
- Flying jackets
- Severely shaved head
- Skinny trousers
This is England
Shaun
- Main character
- Mother
- Father died in the Falklands(war)
Themes
- Brotherhood, friendship
- Nationalism
- Crime and violence
- Identity, growing up
The group:
- Woody
- Milky(black)
- Lol, Woody’s girlfriend
- Gadget
- Smell(Michelle)
- Puke
The other group:
- Combo
- Banjo(Combos friend from prison)
Plot
- In the beginning Shaun is a lonely boy
- Becomes a part of the Skinhead culture
- Develops