Edexcel Government & Politics - Unit 2 Governing the UK (09/06/16)

Anyone doing PM and cabinet or Parliament? I'm hoping presidentialism/limits of PMs power or power of HoC comes as 25/40 marker

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I'm focusing on both of those, as well as the constitution.

PM & Cabinet: I agree with you; I hope for a question to do with presidentialism or power.

Parliament: I'd like a question on whether the House of Lords should be reformed, or maybe how effective is Parliament in carrying out its functions.

Constitution: My 'backup', but I suppose a question on assessing the advantages/disadvantages of a codified/uncodified constitution would be alright. But it's definitely not one of my favourite topics, but still more appealing than the judiciary, but that's a personal preference.

How has devolution affected prime ministerial power and affected how democratic the UK is?

Another option for the constitution would be are the constitutional reforms still Relevant/ are they successes or failures, I'm hoping they don't specifically ask post 2010


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Asking if it's democratic would be more like a unit 1 question u think...and I guess you could argue devolution has slightly reduced power in general because the pm has less control over their laws and stuff but you could argue that it's gave the pm more power as he is the one giving them more devolution peers like power passed further devolution to Scotland and Wales
But I don't know you could argue it any way


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am I the only one that thinks that they will ask whether the HOL should be wholly elected?

I think it might come up too. Or at least be included in a question like "The House of Lords is in greater need of reform than the House of Commons". I'm hoping that something like this will come up, preferably as a 40 marker.

The reforms I know of include:

- Devolution (E.g. Wales, Scotland, NI)
- House of Lords Reform. (House of Lords Act 1999)
- Electoral Reform (E.g. SV, STV)
- Human Rights Act 1998.
- Freedom of Information Act 2000.
- Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
- Supreme Court 2009.
- Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011.
- House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
- Power of Recall (Recall of MPs Act 2015).

Proposed Reforms / Failed Reforms:

- Introduction of AV for general elections [Failed] 2011.
- Extended Devolution. (E.g. West Lothian Question; establishing an English Parliament)
- Changing constituency boundaries.
- Reducing the size of the Commons from 650 to 600. (Failed? Or still going on)
- 'Mostly' elected House of Lords [Failed] (House of Lords Reform Bill 2012)
- Wholly elected House of Lords.

Any I've missed out, or I've made mistakes on?

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what are the disadvantages of the UK constitution apart from it being too powerful, doesn't protect human rights & lack of clarity?