How Is Power Distributed In The United Kingdom?

The Judiciary forms another part of the system in the UK. The Judiciary is the court system within the UK. Juries within courts are made up of Citizens picked at random. Whereas Judges are usually highly educated officials who are paid a salary as it is their job. They preside over court cases including criminal cases. The judiciary is related to the government and the highest court of appeal in the UK is the House of Lords (Until next year when the Supreme Court is introduced). The Judiciary system obviously ties in closely with the government, as the system has power but must stick to the laws created by the government.

The last section in the system is the Monarchy. The Monarch is technically still very important in the UK as the system in place is a constitutional monarchy. One of the queen or king's jobs is to appoint the Prime minister. They also have the power to veto any law that is being passed through government as they are required to approve any law before it comes legal, so technically a great amount of power lies within the monarchy however in modern years this power has been somewhat diminished and although the rules regarding the monarchy remain the same, The queen would not veto any law for possible risk of the consequences. However technically the monarchy still possesses this power.

The European parliament could also be seen to have power within the UK system, even if their influence is less direct and not quite as obvious as some of the above mentioned ones. For example the European parliament can bring up topics called directives which are then debated in parliament. Members of European parliament are also elected in a similar method to that of normal parliament, so although the Eu doesn't have any direct power over the UK system they do have a certain amount of influence.

Overall I can conclude that power in the UK comes from a number of sources. From all the above mentioned sections/columns, a number of them are interlinking and can influence each other and most of the power comes from the Prime minister and government and technically the monarch. However as the UK is a democracy the power really lies with the electorate as they cast the votes which overall distribute power to the government and although each individual only holds a small amount of power, the entire electorate's voting gives the power the government have legitimacy which is vital to the entire UK system. So power can be seen to have been distributed widely in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that on the face of it, it may seem that the power belongs to only a few people.