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=British government and politics=

The British government and the government of the USA are different in many ways, but still they have some similiarities in the way of conveing the politics. Both Britain and the USA have a democracy. I am going to write about how the US government is different from the government in Britain.


 * The British government**

Britain is a unified Monarchy with a parliamentary form of government. The parliament represents the people. Britain has no written constitution and the government is based on the country’s laws, traditions and documents. The Magna Carta is the oldest document, which has been prevented from the 1200s. The Magna Carta is the book of certain laws for the British government and it limits the power of the monarch. Britain is dependent on the parliament’s reliance. The British Monarch is the head of state, which at the moment is the queen. Her power is for lifetime. She can make decisions trough the parliament. The government is led by the British prime minister and other ministers, which is chosen by the queen. The ministers are members of the Cabinet, which is a part of the government (“the British Congress”). The prime minister is chosen for five years. The current british prime minister is Gordon Brown.

 The government of the USA is a Federal Republic consisting of 50 states. The constitution of 1787 is still current. The USA has a multi-party system and the republicans and the democrats are the dominant parties. The Congress consists of two chambers, the Senate and the Representative House. The president is the head of state, who is chosen by the people for four years. He shares the power with the Supreme Court and the Congress. He needs to clarify the matter with the congress, before he decides to make big changes in the politics.
 * The US government**

**How is the British government different from the US government?**
The British government has had more female presidents than the US government and the British president is called the Monarch, which currently is Queen Elizabeth II. The queen is the head of state. She serves as a symbol of state power and “exercises” her power trough the Parliament, which is Britain’s sovereign power, with both the legislative, executive and judicial powers. The British Parliament has the dominant power, which the Queen overrules in certain situations. It is the prime minister (at the moment, Gordon Brown), who controls the most, but he must make decisions together with several political parties. While in the USA, the president is supreme and determines a lot to a extent. He is both the head of state and the head of government and appoints his own ministers.

The British Parliament is made up of two houses, The House of Lords (the upper house), with 735 members and The House of Commons (the lower house). The royal family had much power several years ago. Most of the political power has been lost over the years. But even today, it is still the highest court of supplication. The House of Commons makes the laws in the country and has 646 members. In the contrary to Britain, the American system has a divided power between three agencies of government. The power is divided between the president, the congress and the executive. The US is a presidential, federal republic. The president of the United States is head of state and head of government. The US has two chambers, the Senate, which is the upper house and consists of 100 members. And the lower house is the House of Representatives (with 435 plus 6 non-voting members). The House of Representatives is elected by the people. The two major parties in USA are the republicans and the democrats. While in Britain, we have The Conservative and Unionist Party and the liberal democrats.

Britain hasn’t had a black president yet, like the US. But the US hasn’t had any female-presidents, like Britain. In contrast to the USA, Britain has a royal family. The royal family doesn´t have much power, though. In the USA, a new president is chosen every fourth year. While in Britain, the House of Commons, with the Prime Minister, are elected every five years.

In America, there are 50 different states, while in Britain, there are only five. But those are not called states. England and Scotland is nations, Northern Ireland is a province and Wales is a principality.


 * Conclusion**

This shows that there are many differences between the British government and the government of the USA, even though both Britain and the USA have a democracy. The US and Britain have a lot of different ways of convey the politics. The main difference is that in Britain the queen is head of states, while in the US government the president is head of state. However, the president of the United States, has a lot more power than the british prime minister. The president is supreme to an extent, while the British prime minister has to get the parliaments approval.

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Conservatism
Conservatism means in Latin: conservare, "to preserve". So to be Conservative in just a general meaning means to keep things the way they are. As an example, if you want to move the couch, but your room mate wants to keep it the way it is you can say that he is “conservative”, But conservative as the political attitude has gotten a little stretched out over other political terms like Libertarianism. You would say that The Norwegian Fremskrittspartiet (FrP) is a Conservative party, but it is actually a libertarian party. Because Libertarians are against “Big government”. The inventor of the modern welfare state was Otto Von Bismarck and he wasn't a communist or a socialist or a social-democrat. He was a old fashioned conservative man who also was chancellor of Germany. And that is where a lot of people go wrong. The Republican party in the USA is a conservative party, but it operates with two different political platforms. It is both a Libertarian and a Conservative party. I

Conservative party in Britain
There are two right wing parties in Britain “The Conservative party” and “United Kingdom Independence Party(UKIP)”. UKIP is a political party that holds itself to a anarcho-capitalistic paradigm. Its principal aim is the withdrawal of the United kingdom from the European Union. UKIP is anti immigration, opposed to Islam and generally different cultures and seeks to preserve “britishness”; the idea of the ethnic hegemony that existed before the waves of immigration that started in 1948. The UKIP stems from the same idea as Frp in Norway and is very different from Conservative party of Britain The Conservative party is the British counterpart to Norway's Høyre. The party's leader is David Cameron. The party is a traditional conservative party. It is also the biggest conservative party in the UK and the oldest, with its 198 seats in Parliament and being 332 years old. The Conservative party focuses a lot of its attention on public welfare and quality of life. Cameron has frequently called Britain a broken society, even though Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minster 1979-1990 said “There is no such thing as Society”. The Conservative party has not ruled out lowering taxes, but has said that they will primarily cut in national insurance as well as lower government spending. This is a very big difference from the Norwegian party Høyre. The British Conservatives are not as xenophobic as FRP and the UKIP because they endorse work immigrants in the UK even if this has to be under strict conditions. The conservatives have also proposed a pan-African free trade area, which could help African entrepreneurial company's that are normally held back by tariffs. The Conservatives are very for a tight relationship with the USA and NATO country's.

Norwegian Conservative party 's


The Norwegian conservative party or Høyre as its called in Norway is a conservative party. The party leader in Høyre is Erna Solberg. The other Norwegian right wing party is Frp or The progress party in English. Frp isn't really a conservative, but a lot more like the UKIP. It is in favour of lowering of taxes and a lowering of public funding and public facilities. The Norwegian conservative party wants to open the marked for private facilities to compete with public facilities, like retirement homes and hospitals. The Norwegian conservative party has a very liberal Social policy, supporting Gay adoption and marriage, it also favors Norway to take more part in the international community by joining the EU and more military in Afghanistan. The two conservative parties in Norway need to be allied to have a chance at winning the elections. But some may say that they represent a very unstable political platform that cannot really agree on any thing. You can see a pattern with these right wing political partyies. They have usually don't stay in office for more than one term.

**Differences and similarity between Høyre and The conservatives(UK)**
The biggest difference is that the entire Norwegian political spectrum is pushed to the left and that the British Conservatives are a lot more conservative than the conservatives in Norway, like for example gay marriage is a principle that Høyre supports, while very few other conservative party's do that. This is because they fear losing votes from homophobes or religious people that oppose that paradigm in English society that on the whole is much more socially conservative that that of Norway. The biggest difference stems from the fact is that that the entire Norwegian political spectrum is pushed a lot more to the left than the British. This of course makes up for a lot of differences like how Høyres doesn't want surveillance of the internet and closing of “the piratebay”. Other differences is that Høyre is for same sex marriage and The Conservatives in the UK are against same sex marriage. Høyres immigration policy is a lot less xenophobic than The conservatives in the UK even though they are not especially xenophobic. The main similarity is that both Høyre and The Conservatives are ideally political party's for those who have money and they both want to increase the marked and lessen stately expenses. And they are both very pro globalization and increase military activity in NATO.

**Conclusion**
Frp and UKIP are not real conservative political partyies.. Høyre is a lot more liberal than its conservative neighbors. Høyre have said that they want cut taxes and lessen public facilities where as the Conservatives want to keep the taxes the way it is and cut I governmental spending. Sources: [][] [][][]