Statistics / Facts Flashcards
EU Referendum Scottish Result
62% to remain, every constituency voted to remain, with the lowest majority being 50.1%
2011 Alternative Vote Result
Rejected by a majority of 67.9% of a turnout of 42%
How many debates did Stormont have over Brexit?
Only 1, due to collapse of government
Which countries use the AV system?
Australia and modified version in Navuru
Climate Change Act (modernisation)
2008
Same Sex Marriage (modernisation)
2013
Ideological roots of Labour party
trade unions, Christian socialists, Fabian society, Marxist socialists, political philosophers like Rousseau
What were Beveridge’s 5 Giants?
want, disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness
Trade union membership statistics (contributed to Labour’s electoral breakthrough)
3.4 million in 1912, 8.3 million in 1920
Welfare state - year Labour won and majority
1945, 47.7%
Labour Party constitution, Clause 4 (1918-1995)
“To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible, upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry and service”
What was the Windsor Framework?
UK - EU agreement to reduce beaurocratic burden on GB - NI goods trade
= fewer checks-restrictions for trade / transit of agrifoods, pets, medications
NI overall vote for EU referendum
56% remain, vote heavily divided based on religious breaks
Internal Market Act
Standardisation attempt of customs unions in the UK, took away competencies (in agriculture etc.) that the EU used to have and gave to UK parliament (fuck-you to the assemblies)
Brexit reasserted the parliamentary sovereignty of Westminster
2017 Miller Supreme Court Case
Government needed act of Parliament to trigger art. 50, did not need devolved permission as this would have undermined parliamentary sovereignty and created constitutional crisis
