After resigning, Thatcher continued
After resigning, Thatcher continued
When George Orwell 's epic novel 1984 was published in 1949 it opened the public 's imagination to a future world, where privacy and freedom had no meaning. The year 1984 has come and gone and recent advances in technology have emerged. These new developments have empowered the government, and help to highlight the similarities between the American government and the government in 1984. Although many cannot even begin to accept the disturbing similarities shared between America 's government today and that of George Orwell 's 1984, they do exist. Today 's American government mirrors the government in 1984, because in both societies the government violates one 's basic right to privacy, and misleads their citizens into supporting their war efforts.…
In the UK, we have been using the First Past The Post system as our electoral system since we became a democracy. Whilst this system works for us, there are many systems that we could use, these being: Closed Party List, AMS, STV and Supplementary Vote. All these have various strengths and weaknesses to them.…
Garb, Margaret. Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration (U of Chicago, 1910-1960 Press). In the book written by Margaret Garb, she mainly focuses in on the Great Migration and the impact it had on the city as a whole. This book was rich with information that zeroed in on African Americans and their role in the Great Migration. Giving specific dates dating from 1910-1960 and specific areas of where these Immigrants settled really helped get an idea of what time and place the population grew. African American came from the south and settled in Chicago where they became an urban population. Building communities and implementing businesses, music, and literature, on the South Side…
Thatcher remained victorious after the General Election in 1987 with 42.9% of the popular vote which meant she was up half a point from the General Election in 1983 which shows that she was continuing her success with the electorate and was continuing to be seen to be a strong…
When Harold Macmillan said in 1957 that Britain had “never had it so good” it was easy to see why he spoke with such optimism. The period of Conservative dominance brought many benefits to the British people including the end of rationing, full employment and a boom in the economy. However, in labour’s 1964 manifesto they described this period as “thirteen wasted years”. It seems difficult to believe that both could be true and in this essay I will be assessing the successes and failures of the Conservative government during this time.…
Do you agree with the view that, in the years 1964-70, the Labour Government's failures outweighed its successes?…
PART B: DO YOU AGREE WITH THE VIEW THAT, AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WINNING THE VOTE FOR WOMEN SEEMED TO BE 'FURTHER AWAY THAN EVER '?…
Born in 1885 in New Jersey, Alice Paul was raised into an intellectual and religious family. She was the leader of American woman suffrage who introduced the first equal rights amendment campaign in the United States. Paul planned marches, White House protests, and rallies which resulted in her detention three times before the approval of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. In 1923, Paul drafted and had introduced into Congress the first equal rights amendment to the Constitution, but the Congress didn’t approve it. Since her amendment failed to pass she turned her concentration on international forum and she got the support of League of Nations then she got a place in the Woman’s Research Foundation. In 1938 she created and represented the World…
How successful was Edward Heath as leader of the Conservative Party between 1965 and 1974?…
Since 1997 with the labour government in charge, the UK have adopted various electoral systems. However, there are a number of problems with each systems and some systems are more proportional than others, for example the List System has a higher degree of proportional representation than the First Past The Post system which is used in UK general elections. In spite of this, there are good systems in Northern Ireland, like AMS which is very proportional and provides a simple outcome.…
‘The Conservatives’ inability to economically modernise Britain was the main reason why Labour won the 1964 election.’ Assess the validity of this statement (45)…
Assess the Claim that the Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929-31 were unable to achieve anything…
A short story of Margaret Thatcher’s life is she was a controversial figurehead of conservative ideology during her time as the first female prime minister of Britain. She was born in Grantham, England on October 13, 1925 and became Britain’s Conservative Party leader. She was selected the prime minister of Britain in 1979 and became the first woman to hold that position. She cut social welfare programs, reduced trade union power, and denationalized certain industries during her three terms as Britain’s prime minister. Due to unpopular policy and power conflicts in her party, Thatcher resigned as Britain’s prime minister in 1991. Thatcher later died at the age of 87 on April 8th, 2013 (Biography.com…
As with every type of elections across the world there are some negative and positive elements. Amongst these is theUK as well. Elections are the principle way in which governments in the UK are formed. They therefore serve to transfer power from one government to the next.…
In the process of creating our country Canada much reform had to be taken by both the British, the founders of this land, and the inhabitants of Canada. One such example is seen through how women had to go through lots of struggle to gain their proper rights and freedom from the opposite gender. At times like the 1800s women were seen as ornaments less human than men. They strived to get by the terrible and abusive labour conditions of textile factories, having no say in their pay, housing and job. Women then decided to put an end to this century long abuse and formed a union against the government in order to get what they truly desired; independence.…