Democracy Flashcards
select committees example
Yvette Cooper vs Priti Patel - home affairs select committee, number of people entering the UK with covid
bill committees example
Police, crime, sentencing and courts act amended by committees in both houses before being passed
PMQs + and - examples
Boris questioned on ‘partygate’
Boris accusing Keir of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile during time as director of public prosecutions
Lords example
Evgeny Lebedev appointment
Backbench MPs example
1922 committee of backbench MPs - ousted Boris and Liz
lib dems 2019
12% votes 2% seats
UKIP 2015
13% votes 0.15% seats
SNP 2015
95% scottish seats
50% scottish votes
conservatives 2021
22.8% votes 24% seats
AMS accuracy
± 4%
2022 councils SNP
34% first preference votes
37% seats
Independent and green councillors
152 independent and 35 greens
WAK
42.7% elected Andrew Bowie
no green candidate
North East Scotland region
4 conservatives, 1 green, 2 labour
2019 Conservatives
44% votes 56% seats
80 seat majority
Stonehaven and lower deeside ward
2 conservatives, 1 SNP, 1 Lib Dem
Dawn Black, Dennis Robertson
Lib dems in Lab/Lib coallition
abolished tuition fees and introduced STV for council elections with only 14% of support
2022 female representation (FPTP)
225/650 MPs female - 34.6%
Labour ‘zipped’ lists
10/22 MSPs female - 45.4%
2022 female representation (AMS)
58/129 female - 44.9%
2022 female representation (STV)
29% female
Green/SNP power sharing
2 green junior ministers with only 4.7% votes
SNP minority
introduced free prescriptions and MUP
UKIP 2015 votes
almost 4 million
social class
Ipsos Mori 2015 GE:
AB - 45% cons, 26% lab
DE - 27% cons, 41% lab
turnout (age)
2017 YouGov:
18-19: 57%
70+ : 84%
brexit
18-24 - 73% remain
65+ - 60% leave
BME
2019 GE 3x more likely to vote Lab. than Cons. (Ipsos Mori)
cons. improving representation
Rishi sunak first non-white PM, Sajid Javid first non-white Home sec.
deprivation and race
2019: Pakistani ethnics over 3x more likely to be in most deprived 10% of UK than whites
PPBs
Labour’s directed by Ken Loach reached over 4 million when broadcast on TV
televised leaders’ debates introduced in…
2010
2010 leaders’ debate
Lib Dem support increased from 21% to 32% after first debate
lib dems - 2010
vote increased by 1% to 23%
the sun supports…
the winning/governing party
bad covers
‘save our bacon’, Daily Mail anti-immigration covers and headlines
newspaper circulation…
has declined for all major newspapers since 2010
the sun circulation
stop declaring circulation figures in 2020
vote leave FB ads
spent over £2.7 million on targeted FB ads, being viewed over 169 million times in total
FB ads in 2019
only 48 political ads were viewed over 1 million times - 24 of which were labour’s
BMA advised on…
the abolition of prescription charges
countryside alliance
weren’t insiders during labour as lab. was trying to abolish fox hunting
now with the cons. they are insiders
trade unions example
unite and UNISON have a lot of members
striking unions
2022/23: CWU for Royal Mail, EIS & SSTA for teachers and RMT for rail workers
teachers pay agreement
march 2023: scottish gov. and COSLA agreed to a 14.6% paylift for teachers over the course of 28 months
2023 RMT
voted to stop working overtime
BLM
protests took place across the UK
in Glasgow they protested streets named after slave traders
↳ names were then changed
people’s vote march
2019 london - one million people protested for a new brexit referendum
