PARLIAMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY The Westminster Model of Government UK Elected Dictatorship centralised powers of the PM The connection back to basics the MP and Parliament Political Parties and Party discipline The Party Manifesto – the Constituency

Brief History of Parliament The Landed Aristocracy – the Monarch Magna Carta limits on the Monarch The English Civil War Many voices The Putney Debates Cromwell contribution to democracy

CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRACY TRADITIONAL SOCIETY – IDEA OF AUTHORITY PRESERVE INSTITUTIONS ORGANIC SOCIETY - need to hold society together - impact of industrial change DEMOCRACY INCREMENTAL ANGELS IN MARBLE CONSERVATIVE RESPONSES TO THE WAR ON TERROR IDEAS OF COMMUNITY AND BRITISH NESS

LABOUR AND RESISTANCE BARGAINING BY RIOT THE CHARTISTS DEMANDS FOR AN ANNUAL PARLIAMENT TRADE UNIONS THE LABOUR PARTY HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS

Collective Strategies Trade Unions in decline New Social Movements – Politics of Recognition/Distribution Understanding Oppressions – cultural oppression and economic oppression

Economic Threats to Re- distribution Strategies Keynes and Beveridge - full employment What is happening to incomes Full employment and low pay From Industrial Communities to New individualism

POLITICS OF RECOGNITION New social movements oppressions of culture, race, income, gender Potential for Coalitions – Fragmentation and resistances Technology – web blogging new information

NEW CONVERGENCES Low Incomes and Taxation Welfare to Work Marginalised communities white and Asian youth Levels of Public Expenditure Plateau of Taxation

DIFFERENT PRIORITIES REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT RE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES ACCOUNTABILITY TRANSPARENCY

Crisis and Democracy Technology and Surveillance Consumer Citizen and Safety Passive Citizen Politics does not make a difference