essay Flashcards
Evaluate the view that the UK constitution requires major change for
- Reforms incomplete
- Blair’s reforms to the Lords had two phases, but the second one was incomplete and aimed to rid of hereditary entirely and have 550 members
e.g. Harry Mount, Peter Cruddas, rise of Lords to 783
- No entrenched human rights
- parliament is sovereign and can repeal HRA
e.g. Retained Eu Law Bill 2023 commits to repeal 4000 bills from time in EU membership, Dominic Raab plan to repeal HRA in Queen’s speech 2023
- Reform to voting
- FPTP is undemocratic and creates an elective dictatorship whereby a party with a majority can accomplish anything
e.g. Johnson elected on 44% vote got 56% seats suffered only 4 defeats in his tenure, Blair’s first defeat came in 2003 over detention
Evaluate the view that the UK constitution requires major change against
- Lords does function
- expertise advice with the appointment of proper lords
e.g. Lord Cameron, Lord Boateng who was chief secretary to the Treasury
- Parliamentary sovereignty
- large role in protection and expansion of rights as no other party can overrule parliament
e.g 2010 Equality Act, 2013 Marriage Act
- FPTP makes government stronger
- FPTP delivers sure majorities which allows a government to deliver upon their mandate and promises
e.g. over half of 2019 Conservative manifestos were complete or in 2021
“Evaluate the view that individual and collective ministerial responsibility give the Prime Minister
enough power over their Cabinet”. FOR
- Accountability
- PM holds enough power as ministers are required to be accountable for their failings
e.g. Amber Rudd 2018, Priti Patel. 2017 secret meetings with Israel
- Unity
- Ministers are required to toe the line
Rishi Sunak Sajid Javid over Covvid free lateral flow 2021, Steve Barclay disagreed with Sunak on not giving NHS pay rises in 2023 but continued his support
- Professionalism
- ministers are required to be professional
e.g. Matt Hancock 2021, Chris Pincher June 2022
“Evaluate the view that individual and collective ministerial responsibility give the Prime Minister
enough power over their Cabinet”.
AGAINST
- Accountability
- ministers refuse to resign as it is only convention
e.g. Gavin Williamson 2021 failure to resign, Nadine Dorries 2023 refused to resign until she found out reason for not getting knighthood
- Unity
- unifies the cabinet under convention to allow for mandate to be fuliflled
e.g. May unable to force Johnson resignation, May cabinet leaks
- Professionalism
e.g. Matt Hancock 2021, Jeremy Hunt bullying 2016
TWE do feminists disagree on the problems women face in society? AGREE
- Patriarchy
- Patriarchy is the as it gives primacy to men
- radical feminists think it is necessary to overhaul society as the patriarchy was deep rooted Kate Millet (Sexual Politics 1970) describes it as the ‘rule of men’
- socialist feminists believe that the patriarchy in society is supported by man’s domination of capitalism
- Gender Roles
- Radical and socialists agree as radicals argue for androgynous personhood and socialists argue that capitalism enforces gender roles of a nuclear family to allow a continuation of undisturbed labour
Thinker Sheila Rowbotham family
- Intersectionality
- the problem women as a whole face is the lack of minority recognition and the struggle of the minority.
- Socialist feminists agree that an intersectional view needs to be had as the first view just on discrimination is not expansive enough
bell hooks intersectionality challenged that gender was the most important feature in a womans life
TWE do feminists disagree on the problems women face in society? DISAGREE
- Patriarchy
- Liberals prefer to use discrimination as they believe the state can be used to reform
- Gender Roles
- Liberals believe that it is not anti feminist to embrace traditional gender roles as they seek to give choice
- Intersectionality
- Liberals do not engage with intersectionality their belief in universality of vote and rationality of women does not engage with minority issues
- De Beauvoir engages as a humanist which provides a broader view of thee feminist struggle than BH
