Politics

Politics can be defined as the process by which collective decisions are made by groups of people. This term is administered to the behaviours within civil governments, however, politics are not just used in governments, and they also apply to corporate, academic and religious institutions. Politics are put into place to make and enforce a policy; this is generally done to produce benefit or to make a system fair.

In the United Kingdom a constitutional monarchy makes up the framework of politics. This means that there is a Prime Minister, the Monarch who is the head of state and the head of government. The Prime Ministers has executive power over the UK government. There are two chambers of parliament of which legislative power is settled in; the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

In the UK we have a multi-party system, this means that there are several different political parties that are able to canvas for votes to come to power. From 1920 onwards the competition has been dominated by two political parties, the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. However, in the 2010 general election a coalition government was formed between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrat Party. This coalition was formed because the voters did not make a uniformed decision about who should be in charge of the country. The Prime Minister position was filled with a Conservative Party member and the Deputy Prime Minister slot went to a Liberal Democrat Party member. This type of parliament is also known as a Hung Parliament.