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• the parliament consists of the house of lords, the house of commons and the sovereign (king)
• the house of commons is ellected, it has 650 members
• the house of lords consists of a non-specific amount of members. It has 3 groups: 1. the clergy (=geestelijkheid), 24 bishops and archbishops of the Church of England. 2. law lords (= rechtelijke macht) +-20 senior judges. 3. aristocracy (=adel), heraditary and life peers
• A heraditary peer passes their title onto their children
• a life peer is appointed by the sovereign
• the sovereign is the king or queen of Great Britain
• an MP is a member of parliament who represents a constituency (=kiesdistrict)
• the prime minister lives at 10 downing street
• backbenchers are MPs who do not hold important posts. they sit in the back benches in the House of Commons
• the Dutch equivalent of the white hall is het binnenhof
• the labour party is leftwing, socialist and comparable to PVDA
• the tories are conservative, rightwing and comparable to CDA
• the liberal democrats are liberal and comparable to VVD
• with the devolution of Scotland and Wales it is meant that they now have their own parliament, so they make their own choices on political manners (except on: defence, foreign affairs, overall economic policy, social security and taxation)
• the home office = ministerie van binnenlandse zaken
• home secretary = minster van binnenlandse zaken, James Cleverly
• foreign affairs = buitenlandse zaken
• the chancellor of the exchequer = minister van financiën, jeremy hunt
• the early occupants of GB were the Celts
• the Roman occupation in GB was from 55 BC until 600 BC
• the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians invaded Britain from 400 to 700 AD
• the vikings invaded britain between 700 and 900
• in 1066 the battle of hastings was fought. William the conqueror beat Harald Godwinson. William was French, so French influences became strong in England.
• magna carta limits the power of the king
• Henry VIII is famous because he had six wives and founded the Anglican Church because he couldn't divorce
• queen elisabeth I reigned from 1558 till 1602
• william shakespeare lived from 1564 till 1616
• the commonwealth is the only time in history when Britain was not a monarchy, between 1642 and 1660, oliver cromwell was the president
• william of orange was asked to become king, because Britain didn't want a catholic king
• Britain lost the American colonies in 1783
• queen victoria reigned from 1837 till 1901, this period is called the victorian age
• ireland becomes independent in 1921, after the war between eire (catholic) and Ulster (protestant)
• margaret thatcher was the first female prime minister of the UK
• the current ruling party are the conservatives, their leader is Rishi Sunak
• great britain = england, wales and scotland
• the UK = england, wales, scotland and northern ireland
• british isles = UK and all of their islands
• the fight between catholics (want their own country) and protestants. the protestants celebrate winning the battle of Boyne, which often results in fights
• the IRA (irish republican army) is catholic