What are the major national Holidays?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 412.
When are elections held?
What are the main political parties?
What is the system of government?
Who is the head of the country?
The official head of the country is the Monarch (King or Queen).
Britain is a constitutional monarchy and a unitary state. This means that the official head of the country is the monarch (Queen Elizabeth II nowadays). Her powers are limited by the Parliament.
The British Parliament consists of the House of Commons (including 651 elected Members of Parliament) and the House of Lords (including 1,203 peers who are not elected).
The leader of the party with most seats becomes Prime Minister and forms the Government. People talk about «Downing Street» when they mean the Prime Minister and his/her Cabinet, as Prime Ministers live at ¹10, Downing Street.
Whitehall is the street where important Government offices are situated.
The main political parties are the Conservative and the Labour party. The minor political parties are: Liberal Democrats, Scottish National and others.
Elections are held every five years.
Major UK National Holidays are: New Year Holiday (January 1st), Good Friday (March/April), Easter Monday (March/April), Christmas Day (December, 25th), Boxing Day (December, 26th ).
Eisteddfod is the annual national festival of music and poetry held in Wales.
According to the legend the Loch Ness Monster lives in a lake in Scotland.
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