The faces of British politics by celinlo https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m Famous politicians and why we know them en-us 2017-09-19 11:09:12 UTC 2024-07-18 20:07:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Gruppe 1 https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189643952 2017-09-21 08:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189643952 Gruppe 2: Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher fannyhasnaouih https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644005 Signe, Hanna, Victoria, Fanny ]]> 2017-09-21 08:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644005 Gruppe 3 - Winston Churchill https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644024 Emilie, Sofie, Irene og Regine 

]]> 2017-09-21 08:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644024 Gruppe 4 https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644138 Nicola Sturgeon:
-First female leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), and the First Minister of Scotland.
-An advocate for Scottish independence. She was overseeing the referendum for Scottish independence in 2014- essentially being in charge of SNP's referendum campaign. Sturgeon is still calling out on a second independence referendum, after the Brexit. 
- Sturgeon is against Great Britain leaving the EU. Across Scotland, 62 % of voters backed Great Britain staying in the EU, which is why Sturgeon claimes that it is unacceptable that Scotland is being taken out of the EU "against its will".
-She has also been a spokesperson for justice, health and education for the SNP party.
- Sturgeon's repeated calls for Scottish independence makes her relationship with Theresa May and Boris Johnson strained. This has created a sort of "us vs. them" rhetoric.      

]]> 2017-09-21 08:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644138 Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644234 1. Both Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn are from the Labour party.
2. Both were leaders of the Labour party, and Tony Blair was the prime minister of the UK.
3. Blair's key event might have been the Iraq-war. The war has defined much of his legacy. Jeremy Corbyn has long campaigned on a more radical left-wing platform. Although Corbyn and Blair are from the same party, there are vast differences between their visions for the Labour party and the UK. Blair introduced the "New Labour," opening for more free-market solutions and embracing many of Thatcher's policies while smoothing out the edges. Corbyn is a reactionary, and has reversed many of Blair's reforms and changes within the Labour party.
4. Blair had an immense impact on the UK. He continued many of Thatcher's policies, introduced the "New Labour," and went to war alongside the U.S. in Iraq. Corbyn's impact has been immense, and he surged in popularity during the 2017 general election, almost unseating Theresa May and her current government. His left-wing populism has gained momentum in the UK, much like Bernie's populism gained momentum in the States.
5. In the general election in 1997, the year Tony Blair won, the voter turnout was 71.5%. In 2017 the voter turnout was at its highest level since 1997. 
6. Why did Blair gain popularity?
- The people liked his way of dealing with Princess Dianas death in 1997. 
- He was very charismatic and likeable. 
- Blair changed the Labor party, and voters from both sides of the political scale were more willing to vote for him. 
7. Why did Coryn gain popularity? 
- supports higher taxation for the wealthiest people in society 
- Appeals to the younger generation (similar to Bernie Sanders) 
- Advocates state-funded acadamies and "free schools"]]> 2017-09-21 08:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644234 Nigel Farage and Arlene Foster: Group 5 https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644868 Nigel Farage:
- Member of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)
- Was the leader of UKIP until June 2016, he has also been a member of the European parliament since 1999
- Farage left the Tories after disagreements within the party, and became a founding member of UKIP
- He was elected as a member of European Parliament, the parliamentary institution of the EU, in 1999 as a representative for South East England. He has become notorious for controversial speaches and campaigning for UKIP
- He has has spent nearly 20 years campaigning for leaving the EU with the slogan "I want my country back". He was undoubtedly a key part of persuading 17 million people to vote in favour of a brexit.
- Critics claim he deserves some blaim in pushing the political climate more towards conservative nationalism.
 

Arlene Foster:
- Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party since December 2015, and is member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Conservative).
- Foster told the Guardian: “I would not want abortion to be as freely available here as it is in England and don’t support the extension of the 1967 act.” However, she did agree to carefully consider court ruling on rape. (The Abortion Act 1967 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom legalising abortions.)
Gay marriage: The party (Northern Ireland Unionists) opposes same-sex marriage, believing in what they call the “traditional” definition of the union, and has vetoed several attempts to pass new legislation.
-The aftermath of her more extreme policies was that none of them were enstated
-These policies made her unpopular with a lot of people, especially the younger generations
 

]]> 2017-09-21 08:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644868 Group 2- Theresa May https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644946 - Current Prime Minister of the UK, after David Cameron (50% votes)
-  Leader of the Conservative Party, right wing 
- Fight against modern slavery, granted 150 million pounds 
- Strict immigration politics
- Pro Brexit, "strong and stable leadership"
- Lost snap election, 2017, --> Democratic Unionist Party

]]> 2017-09-21 08:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189644946 https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189652958 2017-09-21 08:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189652958 Margaret Thatcher fannyhasnaouih https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189653776 -          Hardworking, determined and didn’t let anyone step on her toes
-          This made her the first woman Prime minister in Britain.
-          Called the “iron lady” associated to her leadership and uncompromising politics 
-          Very conservative, privatising the Cole mines, focusing more on    the wealthy population
-          Was in office under the Falklands War, she wanted to keep the colonies, never declared war but it was a warzone.
-          She implemented policies in her time which is now called Thatcherism.

- Margaret Thatcher was born October 1925 in Grantham, England.
- Her father, Alfred Roberts and mother Beatrice Ethel.
- The father owned two  grocery shops, alderman and Methodist local preacher and major of Grantham from 1945-46 
- Thatcher worked hard in school and won a scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School
- Head girl from 1942- 43
- Arrived at Oxford in 43, graduated 1947 with Second-Class Honours
- Science degree

 
 
]]> 2017-09-21 09:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189653776 Boris Johnson https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189656757  
-          Current Secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs 
-          Member of the Conservative party 
-          The former mayor of London, and an MP in one of the “safe seats” 
-          He is one of the higher-ups in the Conservative Party 
-          Pro Brexit, was a candidate to take over after David Cameron’s resignation 
o   He might have been using Brexit to gain popularity, but didn’t anticipate the outcome of the referendum. The reason for his withdrawal from the media after the referendum might have been due to conflicts within his party on who was to take over as Prime Minister. 
-          Since Britain decided to leave the EU, Johnson has been blamed for a possible economic crisis following Brexit due to his involvement in the leave-campaign. 

]]> 2017-09-21 09:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189656757 sofiefougner https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189656928 Winston Churchill was a member of the conservative party, but between 1904 to 1925 he was a member of the Liberal. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955.                                                                                                                He was elected Conservative MP for Oldham but in 1904, but left the Conservative Party and joined the Liberal Party, which, he believed, better represented his economic views on free trade. 

He served as these positions for the Liberal party 

1906-1908: Liberal MP for Northwester Manchester 

1908-1910: President of the Board Trade

1910: He was promoted to Home Secretary

1911-1915: First Lord of the Admiralty (political lead of the royal navy) 

1915-1916:  He re-joined the army (WWI)

1917-1918: Minister of Munitions  

1919-1920: Minister of War and Air.

In 1921-1922, he was appointed Colonial Secretary – a post he held until he lost his seat for Dundee in the 1922 election.

1922-1924: Left the Liberal Party and became MP for Epping as a “constitutional anti-socialist”

1924-1929: Chancellor of the Exchequer (he also re-joined the Conservative party in 1925)

On September 3rd,1939, Winston Churchill was back in the government when Chamberlain appointed him First Lord of the Admiralty.

After the British government failed to help Norway when Hitler occupied the country in 1940, meant that criticism of the current Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain became more and more robust. On May 10th, 1940 Winston Churchill became Prime Minister and during the war, he was the most dominant figure in British politics – a role that received huge praise once the war was over.

]]> 2017-09-21 09:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189656928 https://padlet.com/celinelonne/aantsxrrcf9m/wish/189657930 ·         Versatility: a gifted journalist, a biographer and historian of classic proportions, an amateur painter of talent, an orator of rare power, a soldier of courage and distinction. 
·         But it was as a wartime leader that he left his indelible imprint on the history of Britain and on the world. 
·         During the Second World War, he became a symbol of victory among the oppressed and conquered people. He had previously fought as a soldier in the frontline in the First World War and didn’t wish for the British people to experience such pain and suffering. 
--> He gave People hope and prosperity. Because of his impeccable ability of speaking and his rhetorical skills, people felt secure. 
·         He is considered a national hero. Symbol of unity during the Second World War. 
·         the Order of the Garter in 1953: The most prestigious British orders of chivalry. 

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