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on behalf of her majesty queen elizabeth
ii and her loyal subjects we bring to
you the students of Georgetown Bay
School British political history
convinced
you
the Uniting of the United Kingdom the
British Isles are 3,000 miles east of
America you'll find them happily
floating in the Atlantic a safe distance
of 21 miles from France the making of
the modern British state can be traced
all the way back to 1066
back then the axis of evil was the
moments the Romans and of course the
Normans take part
the leader of the Normans and chief bad
guy was William of Normandy he invaded
Britain in 1066 conquered everything in
sight and imposed his rule throughout
the Isles as the centuries passed the
descendants of wicked Willie took
diplomatic steps to unite all parts of
the British Isles into one nation as a
result in the 16th century various acts
of Union led to us English people being
stuck permanently with the Welsh in the
18th century we got stuck permanently
with the Scots and in the 19th century
we also got stuck with the Irish but as
the Irish turned out to be a bit of a
problem we didn't want to be stuck with
them permanently
so in 1922 we got rid of most of Ireland
and just kept the most northern six
counties in other words Northern Ireland
to ourselves so that's how we became us
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland the land of the English
Welsh Scots and Irish was some of the
Irish anyway from Magna Carta to Emily
Pankhurst Britain is a parliamentary
democracy and the roots of our
parliamentary democracy go all the way
back to Magna Carta now it's widely
believed that Magna Carta was a distant
relative of American President Jimmy
Carter not true the Magna Carta was an
English charter issued in 1215 for the
first time ever
it gave rights to feudal land owners and
curtailed the power of the monarchy
in the centuries that followed the
landowners gradually secured more and
more rights for themselves including the
right to vote they formed a lawmaking
body called Parliament in 1832 the
Reform Act expanded voting rights to
include not just the landowners but also
some of the middle class that left one
group of individuals still totally
disenfranchised and you guessed it that
was women but thanks to the efforts of
the first ever women's libber in history
the one and only Emmeline Pankhurst
woman were finally given the votes in
1928 Brits will always remember Magna
Carta and Emily pencast they helped to
define modern British democracy
government of the people for the people
by the people
British style in Britain our government
is called Her Majesty's Government but
the truth of the matter is it's not her
majesty's government at all in fact the
poor woman doesn't have a say in
anything my husband and I like to wish
the British people a way to understand
how British government actually works
you have to understand how our
Parliament works there are two houses of
parliament there's the upper house which
is called the House of Lords no need to
worry about that it's full of boring old
farts who inherited or appointed to
their positions in the lords like mrs.
Thatcher's son mark for example that's
why the Lords have little saying
anything whatsoever the real power in
Britain lies in the lower house which is
known as the House of Commons there are
six hundred and fifty members of the
House of Commons otherwise known as MPs
and they're elected by the British
people elections are held at a maximum
of every five years and come election
day
Britain's in 646 areas of the country go
to vote for their favourite political
person so who are the main political
parties
well there's the Conservative Party
they're a little right-wing
there's the Liberal Democrat Party
they're a bit more left-wing than the
Conservatives and then there's the
Labour Party they're a bit more
left-wing than the Liberal Democrat
party after election day the leader of
the party with the biggest number of
elected MPs becomes the prime minister
he puts his cabinet together and he and
they start to govern it's as simple as
that Great Britain's the political ones
anyway there have been many Great
Britain's over the years but there are
three that any self-respecting
comparative politics student should know
about
first there's Winston Churchill he
became British prime minister in 1940
and was one of the most inspirational
leaders in the history Churchill is
famous for his two-finger victory salute
after the end of the Second World War
and also for actually given the
two-finger salute to Hitler and
Mussolini during the war unfortunately
the British public gave Churchill their
own two finger salute by voting him and
his Conservative Party out of office in
1945 next there's Margaret Thatcher she
became the first-ever woman Prime
Minister and won three consecutive
elections in 1979 in 1983 and in 1987
Margaret Thatcher is most famous in
Britain for reducing the role of
government in the lives of people
selling off and privatizing many of
Britain's state-owned assets
and encouraging business outside Britain
mrs. Thatcher was known for her tough
stance on foreign policy hence her
nickname of the Iron Lady and for
cuddling up to American President Ronald
Reagan at every opportunity
and finally there's Tony Blair Tony
Blair became prime minister in 1997 and
apart from his bad British teeth what we
remembered for two things firstly he
created new labour a party and a
government that would maintain the
British welfare state but would also
encourage and promote business and
secondly he cuddled up to American
President George Bush at every
opportunity including over the Iraq war
pookums as Britain's loved animals it
won't surprise you to know that winston
churchill was known as the British
bulldog Margaret Thatcher was known as a
tiller the hen and Tony Blair was and is
known as George Bush's poodle British
government in terms of Georgetown day
school finally just to underscore your
understanding of British politics here's
how British government relates to the
other venerable institution Georgetown
day school here at GDS
our prime minister is Peter branch he
runs the place Chancellor of the
Exchequer is Kate Lindsey she controls
the money our Home Secretary is Kevin
Barr
he runs home affairs at the high school
Foreign Secretary is Barbara Bergman she
controls all our foreign and therefore
College Relations Secretary of Defense
is Elaine Scott she protects GDS from
any student who really shouldn't be here
and as for the Queen well that's sue I
can breathe she's GDS through and
through a great ambassador for the
school but she has absolutely no say in
anything whatsoever on behalf of her
majesty queen elizabeth ii and her loyal
subjects we thank you for watching and
god save anyone who has to set the AP
comparative politics exam
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