The voters choose who makes the government. David Cameron is the current Prime Minister. He has set up a coalition government with the Liberal Democrat party and is in charge of selecting a team of ministers and peers to make up his government. The most senior ministers are members of the Cabinet. They meet in private to make decisions about government policy. The government is divided up into departments. Each department is responsible for a different area -employment, agriculture, education, arts, sports, the environment, defence etc. So in the long term run the voters decide what happens in the country. The second point is that the voters get to choose the local and national government in elections.
The next thing I am going to speak about is the local government. I think that the local government is powerful because they collects rates from firms and can use the law to block planning permission for new premises.
I have two bits of evidence to back this up. The first is what the service is that the local council provide. They look after two important areas. These are health and education. I know these are important because they affect us as we are the people who will be using these.
The second is because the local councillors can make decisions to make the area better. One example of this is recycling your old electronics … e-waste. I know this is important because we are responsible for our action yet we don’t show it. We let people in other countries suffer because we don’t recycle our electronics. The local council try to raise awareness about issues like this.
On the one hand the local government might be seen as more powerful more than any other groups because many policies come under their remit and influence. On the other hand the local government might be seen as less powerful than any other groups because they don’t have a say over the most crucial government functions, such as; fiscal policy (tax)
I think the local government is a less powerful than some groups such as, the central government because the most important policy areas are decided by central government politicians.
Now I am writing about the power of the National government. They are very powerful because they decide on very important policies such as, taxes and defences.
I have two bits of evidence to back this up. The first is the work that MP’s do in the House of Commons. Two things that they do are propose, amend and vote on laws and they also hold governments accountable.
I know this is important because they affect us, because we as citizens have to follow the law.
On one hand the National government might be seen as more powerful than any other group because they give out the roles to the local council. On one hand the National government might be seen as less powerful than any other group because without the monarchy’s permeation they can’t pass out a law.
I think that the National government has more power because like I said they make the most important decisions, which affect us the most.
Now I am writing about the power of the monarchy. They are very powerful because for any law to be passed it needs to be agreed upon the monarchy. I have two bits of evidence to back this up. The first is the work Queen is still officially the Head of State. This means the monarch represents the highest authority and is this seen to be more powerful than other groups.
The second is the queen still has to sign off legal documents before they become law. One example of this is for anti Terra legislations. I know this is important because it means the Head of State has a role in determining laws.
In the UK we have a democracy. This means there are 4 things that are important in our country. In a democracy the power is divided between different people. This means that it’s harder for one group to make lots of decisions that take the power away from others. For example in a dictatorship they do not have a democracy. This means in the country the person who holds all the power is the unelected government.
In Britain, we split the power between the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the monarchy, judiciary and thee legislature.
The group who I think are the most powerful are the National government because they make the most important decisions that affect us the most. This is why they are more powerful than all the others.
