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Democracy Flashcards

1
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select committees example

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Yvette Cooper vs Priti Patel - home affairs select committee, number of people entering the UK with covid

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bill committees example

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Police, crime, sentencing and courts act amended by committees in both houses before being passed

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PMQs + and - examples

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Boris questioned on ‘partygate’
Boris accusing Keir of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile during time as director of public prosecutions

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Lords example

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Evgeny Lebedev appointment

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Backbench MPs example

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1922 committee of backbench MPs - ousted Boris and Liz

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lib dems 2019

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12% votes 2% seats

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UKIP 2015

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13% votes 0.15% seats

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SNP 2015

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95% scottish seats
50% scottish votes

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conservatives 2021

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22.8% votes 24% seats

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AMS accuracy

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± 4%

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2022 councils SNP

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34% first preference votes
37% seats

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Independent and green councillors

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152 independent and 35 greens

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WAK

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42.7% elected Andrew Bowie
no green candidate

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North East Scotland region

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4 conservatives, 1 green, 2 labour

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2019 Conservatives

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44% votes 56% seats
80 seat majority

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Stonehaven and lower deeside ward

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2 conservatives, 1 SNP, 1 Lib Dem
Dawn Black, Dennis Robertson

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Lib dems in Lab/Lib coallition

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abolished tuition fees and introduced STV for council elections with only 14% of support

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2022 female representation (FPTP)

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225/650 MPs female - 34.6%

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Labour ‘zipped’ lists

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10/22 MSPs female - 45.4%

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2022 female representation (AMS)

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58/129 female - 44.9%

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2022 female representation (STV)

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29% female

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Green/SNP power sharing

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2 green junior ministers with only 4.7% votes

23
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SNP minority

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introduced free prescriptions and MUP

24
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UKIP 2015 votes

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almost 4 million

25
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social class

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Ipsos Mori 2015 GE:
AB - 45% cons, 26% lab
DE - 27% cons, 41% lab

26
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turnout (age)

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2017 YouGov:
18-19: 57%
70+ : 84%

27
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brexit

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18-24 - 73% remain
65+ - 60% leave

28
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BME

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2019 GE 3x more likely to vote Lab. than Cons. (Ipsos Mori)

29
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cons. improving representation

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Rishi sunak first non-white PM, Sajid Javid first non-white Home sec.

30
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deprivation and race

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2019: Pakistani ethnics over 3x more likely to be in most deprived 10% of UK than whites

31
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PPBs

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Labour’s directed by Ken Loach reached over 4 million when broadcast on TV

32
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televised leaders’ debates introduced in…

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2010

33
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2010 leaders’ debate

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Lib Dem support increased from 21% to 32% after first debate

34
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lib dems - 2010

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vote increased by 1% to 23%

35
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the sun supports…

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the winning/governing party

36
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bad covers

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‘save our bacon’, Daily Mail anti-immigration covers and headlines

37
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newspaper circulation…

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has declined for all major newspapers since 2010

38
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the sun circulation

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stop declaring circulation figures in 2020

39
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vote leave FB ads

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spent over £2.7 million on targeted FB ads, being viewed over 169 million times in total

40
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FB ads in 2019

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only 48 political ads were viewed over 1 million times - 24 of which were labour’s

41
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BMA advised on…

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the abolition of prescription charges

42
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countryside alliance

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weren’t insiders during labour as lab. was trying to abolish fox hunting

now with the cons. they are insiders

43
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trade unions example

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unite and UNISON have a lot of members

44
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striking unions

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2022/23: CWU for Royal Mail, EIS & SSTA for teachers and RMT for rail workers

45
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teachers pay agreement

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march 2023: scottish gov. and COSLA agreed to a 14.6% paylift for teachers over the course of 28 months

46
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2023 RMT

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voted to stop working overtime

47
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BLM

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protests took place across the UK
in Glasgow they protested streets named after slave traders
↳ names were then changed

48
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people’s vote march

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2019 london - one million people protested for a new brexit referendum

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