You can also decide for yourself whether or not these posters are actively misleading!
THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN POSTERS [GUARDIAN]
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| The Tories needed to convince sceptical voters they could be trusted with public services |
Showing posts with label first past the post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first past the post. Show all posts
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
UK Political Parties' posters, past and present
Using some of the links below, you can build a good impression of how party politics have shifted over time, for example the reduction in real difference between Labour and Tories as 'New Labour' moved to the free market, right-wing position of the Conservatives.
You can also decide for yourself whether or not these posters are actively misleading!
THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN POSTERS [GUARDIAN]
You can also decide for yourself whether or not these posters are actively misleading!
THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN POSTERS [GUARDIAN]
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Parliament and UK General Election Process in a Nutshell
You should bookmark this blog, and any other pages/sites you think will be helpful for your Citizenship exam.
Click on this link, close the video pop-up menu once the page loads, and drag and drop the 4 answers, click reveal, and keep going until you go all 4 right. Use this information, and whatever you find by going on to the next step (just click reveal for each question), to write in your own defintion of the 2 main types of voting system on your worksheet.
Click here to go the page you see previewed right, with a 22min video setting out the process of the UK general election, and how our Parliament functions.
You can find many more resources on voting systems in this blog post, and several others in this blog!
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| 1: Close the video list. Try the task until you get all 4 right |
Click on this link, close the video pop-up menu once the page loads, and drag and drop the 4 answers, click reveal, and keep going until you go all 4 right. Use this information, and whatever you find by going on to the next step (just click reveal for each question), to write in your own defintion of the 2 main types of voting system on your worksheet.
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| Simply click each 'reveal' |
You can find many more resources on voting systems in this blog post, and several others in this blog!
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Voting systems and debates
There are two general approaches to voting systems: simple majority and proportional representation. The BBC provides an interactive guide to various voting systems (only one is a simple majority system: first past the post); use this to note definitions of FPTP and the other PR systems, and where in the UK they are used.
You can also find superior, more detailed definitions at http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/voting-systems/ or at http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/.
You'll be asked to find arguments for or against FPTP and STV (as an example of PR): use these links - FPTP, STV.
This is another very useful site for comparing arguments for/against FPTP.
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| Click here to visit the site |
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| This table can be found here, with more detailed breakdowns of voting systems and more international examples of where they're each used |
You'll be asked to find arguments for or against FPTP and STV (as an example of PR): use these links - FPTP, STV.
This is another very useful site for comparing arguments for/against FPTP.
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