The British Government
The British government is the organism that is in charge of creating laws, policies and different
other activities related to the political life of the country. It is divided in 3 important bodies; The
House of Lords, which is formed by 650 MP’s whom are chosen by the British people. The House
of Commons, is a body formed by more than 700 people who are chosen by government based on
their knowledge on different fields, they are in charge of checking and advising the House of Lords
having as reference laws and policies they are trying to imply and at last we have the sovereign or
monarch who is in charge of advising, warning and guiding the government that represents her.
As known the British government is a Parliamentary Monarchy, where the monarch does not have
absolute power but ceremonial. In the UK the Monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II works as a
model of national unity. Even though during these modern days seems to be an obsolete thing to
have a Queen, she shows great rates of popularity among the people of her country. She is in
charge of doing all the diplomatic work a president of another country should do in order to keep
the ministers busy doing their jobs.
The House of Lords is the most important body since they are in charge of electing a Prime
Minister, The house is divided by 2 parts; Her Majesty’s government who happens to be the
majority party according to the MP’s elected by people, the majority party chooses a leader who
will be titled as Primer Minister of The United Kingdom. The rest of the MP’s are Her Majesty’s
Government Oppositions, they question all the policies and laws Her Majesty’s Government is
trying to change, create or restructure. Her Majesty’s Government opposition represents different
points of view from people in Great Britain.
These Government form was settled after the signing of the Magna Carta which was a document
the King John I of England who tried to raise taxes on landing due to an economical crisis England
was going through. A sublevation of unhappy nobles who realized the King should have less power
and be advised on decisions of important matters were the ones who took the first seat of
parliament in that time they were only 25 members of parliament. 500 years later England saw the
last Absolute Monarch of its history with Charles I who was killed by the republican party of that
time having Oliver Cromwell as leader.