did Britain join the EEC: it came into force in 1973 → Conservative PM: Edward Heath (the conservative were pro-European) 1974: general elections: the Labour Party won the elections → 1975: referendum out come a majority of british people wanted to remain in EEC‚ a setback (= revers) for the labour In the 70’s the Labour was anti-European The Bruges speech was a watershed because Thatcher reversed the trend In the 80’s Conservative was eurosceptical and Labour was pro-European M.T believes
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Prof David Marquand’s curriculum vitae is discouraging – Labour MP for 11 years under Harold Wilson‚ and later an adviser to the European Commission. Later still he became a founder member of the Social Democratic Party. He started his academic career as a politics lecturer at Sussex University. Yet Marquand has overcome these disadvantages and become one of the most original political thinkers of his generation. He has a gift for bringing political arguments to life and – unique among Left-wing
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include‚ of course‚ free market‚ monetarist economic policy‚ privatization and policy in taxation. And also her opposition to the trade union posed a vital change in the society. During the time Thatcher governed‚ especially in 1979 she became Conservative Prime Minister; Britain was confronted with many problems. Thatcher introduced monetarist economic policy‚ which means that she used the interest rates to control the money supply‚ to decrease the high inflation. She passed law to restrict trade
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three consecutive terms which was the longest since 1827. Through her extraordinary vision she brought forth radical changes‚ not just in her country but worldwide. She had a profound and permanent impact on politics and even changed her own Conservative Parties outlook. Through challenging all ideas that were commonplace‚ she set a catalyst movement for the end of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking views on monetarism and privatization manifested into one of Britain’s biggest contributions
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been previously mentioned in the essay. "The ’Redneck Agenda’ might also be referring to another favorite punching bag that Armstrong hits in many other songs on the album (most notibly ’Jesus of Suburbia’)‚ the religious right wing of the conservative party." (page 4‚ paragraph 1) An example of word analysis is when you analyzed the word‚ "faggot". "while the word ’faggot’ is a slang‚ derogatory term for a homosexual‚ it has also been used to define anyone who refuses to fight or be ’manly’"
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would not be able to survive another military conflict of such a scale as the world war. In this respect‚ it was vitally important to prevent the growing tension within the society in order to decrease the threat from the part of extremist parties similar to Nazi party in Germany. As a result‚ the socially oriented politics targeting the minimization of tension between different classes and solution of the problem of poverty was one of the major trends in the UK politics of the post-war era. This is why
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convicted of corrupt and certain mentally ill patients don’t take part in voting. There are few political parties in Britain thanks to the British electoral system. The main ones are: the Conservative Party‚ the Labour Party and the Liberal / Social Democratic Alliance. Each political party puts up one candidate for each constituency. The one who wins the most votes is elected MP for that area. The party which wins the most seats in Parliament forms the Government. Its leader becomes the Prime Minister
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system in the UK with the political system in your country of origin. Clearly indicate your home country. The Oxford Dictionary‚ defined politics as ‘the activities associated with the governance of a country or area‚ especially the debate between parties having power’. Therefore political systems are the processes involved in decision making and the governing of nations. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the political system of both the UK and Nigeria‚ what it entails and also critically discuss
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policy‚ such as the injection of funds into the NHS. This was mainly done with the Conservative/Thatcherite toolkit‚ namely the PFI [Private Finance Initiative]‚ a product of John Major’s spell in Number 10; during the New Labour period the PFI accounted for a staggering 75% of the funds for new hospitals. Much in the way that Clement Attlee’s government of ‘45-51 set the economic fundamentals for the Conservative governments to follow‚ by describing Thatcher’s
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Boris Johnson Content: Boris Johnson’s choice of content does not appeal to the general population of London but a select group of individuals within the conservative party. Boris Johnson delivered the speech thinking that it would only be heard by the attendees of the Centre for Policy Studies a neoliberal think-tank. However due to the controversial contents of his speech‚ he is now facing the dilemma of losing supporters. Boris’ ideas are in a way similar to Margaret Thatcher’s. However the
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