influences on gov

Question 1

insider/ outsider groups

Answer 1

• insider groups regularly asked for their opinions and as are experts in their field and have direct access to those in power
• outsider groups like Greenpeace are outlawed and using tactics like spray painting to campaign, it hinders their cause
• shows insider groups are more successful at influencing gov than outsider
• like in 2016, BMA disagreed on working doctor conditions, held a strike, gov started phasing in new contract

Question 2

role of the media

Answer 2

• newspaper daily sales down 12mil in 2001 to 6.5mi in 2016
• question time on bbc 4 has 7million daily listeners
• Levenson inquiry DC met with his news`Corp executives 26 times in this first 15 months
• shoes perhaps we don’t get told the whole truth and the gov is really in control of what the media reports

Question 3

e petitions and social media

Answer 3

• Sturgeon has almost 1mil followed, Rees Mogg has 18000
• it enables more people to be informed on political action and get involved sharing their views and interacting with politicians online

-e-petitions need 100,000 signatures before an MP chooses to debate in parliament

• recent petition in 2015 to prevent trump entering UK after his racist anti-muslim comments reached 565000 signatures
• shows the vast amount of people that now get involved in petitions due to media
• 7 petitions past in 2017 became legislation
• ban on tampon tax came from petition, 38 degrees
• 6 mil votes banning Brexit but no action