Tuesday, May 4, 2010

About UK elections

UK Election 2010

The major candidates are David Cameron of Conservative Party, Gordon Brown of current Labour party and Nick Clegg for Liberal Democrats.

Labour party's issues are: Everyone gets childcare, schools, the NHS and policing, House of Lord to be electable.
Conservative's issues are: Reducing Inheritance tax, Non-profit organisations can set up independent school, cut off the budget deficit, Scrap identity card, Increasing the benefit of marital status
Liberal Democrat's issues are: Protecting Illegal Immigration, Written Constitution, Single-transferable Vote, Premium given for school with poor people, To change the National Curriculum to Minimal Curriculum Entitlement.

This parliamentary election in UK is held for the seat of the Parliament where people choose the MP for their county. Then the party with the most seat win the election and its leader become prime minister
This is different from US because US have separate election for president and the member of the Congress while UK election decides both the seats in parliament and Prime Minister at the same time. Also election in UK can adjust the date for election while US have fixed date for the elections.

I think Nick Clegg is going to be the best prime minister because of three reasons. Firstly LIberal Democrat says that the illegal Immigrant can have a chance to be legal immigrant. I really like this policy because it protect their own human right, which are currently abuse in cause of being illegal immigrant. Secondly I like about the idea of 'written constitution,' as it would narrow the too broad interpretation of UK judiciary due to lack of superior evidence over common laws.
Finally the third reason why I like Lib Dem is that it introduces the Minimal Curriculum Entitlement rather than current National Curriculum System. The entitlement will allow more flexible teaching, which I feel it is neccessary in UK education. Currently UK education is solidified to keep up with the national curriculum, allowing fixed response from each student and thus the less creativity is encouraged in UK.