Members of ParliamentexpensescorruptionHouse of CommonsThere is nothing new about the existence of a political class, nor about the electorate's distaste for paid politicians. In the middle ages, voters made clear their preference for representatives who were prepared to serve without payment; in ...
of Wales, who knows he will be named king if his father is found mentally incompetent. Even as the king undergoes treatments, Fox introduces a bill to the members of Parliament that would give the Prince of Wales the power to act as king. However, King George III recovers enough that he...
T 46. Ministers are appointedby the Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. F 47. The two major parties in Britain today are the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party. F 48. Ministers in Britain cannot be elected Members of Parliament at the same time. ★★★ T5...
This sticky end to a successful career was not the first calamity to which the accident-prone member of parliament had fallen victim. He had previously been flattened by a pole in London, fallen on by a horse just before his marriage, and severely injured his legs trying to jump over a m...
Prominent members of the Economic League included several high-ranking military officers, five former Members of Parliament, representatives from the top banks in England, and the chairman of the British Broadcasting Company, Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford. In The Show: ...
”, such as line 2 on page 180. After Fukuda Tokuyasu became the secretary of the Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru, he had served as the chief of the Defense Department, the chief of the Administrative Department, the Postmaster General and other positions as well as a member of parliament....
We have definite proof that many of your Senior Officers including members of your ‘Parliament’ have been guilty of themost brutal crimes towards the IRA prisoners and have reduced your soldiers to a state of savagery in some areas.
Mary. However, many of them presume that the tradition began in 1605 after the gunpowder plot. This plot saw a group of Catholics take a stand against Parliament by attempting to blow up the establishment. The plot failed, and the members of the group were allegedly executed or imprisoned. ...
Raleigh spent the next thirteen years in The Tower and Parliament passed an act called the ‘Statute Against Catholics’ banishing Catholic priests from England was passed into law as a result of the Bye Plot. Sir Griffin ended his life in continental poverty. According to some stories it is...
Prominent members of the Economic League included several high-ranking military officers, five former Members of Parliament, representatives from the top banks in England, and the chairman of the British Broadcasting Company, Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford. In The Show: ...