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Politics in the UK (parties (The Tories (becomes the Tories at the end of…

- - - - ideas are too extreme -> do not represent British
      - unpopular
        
        if lack of opposition -> only Tories (because of electoral system)
        
        working-class feel estranged from Labour -> tempted by Conservatives
        
        real risk that Scotland and NI leave the UK because Labour is not at its best there
      - in favour of Brexit
- - - - House of Commons
        
        vote
        
        each in a constituency
        
        every 5 years
        
        run the country
        
        decide for the whole country
        
        about national security, budget, ...
        
        Chef's whip
        
        make MPs vote like the party
        
        if opposition -> risk of beign ejected
        
        frontbenchers : importants >< backbenchers not important
      - House of Lords
        
        give their opinion or oppose something (very rare)
        
        hereditary
    - - power to make decisions
      - does not need London to approve
      - own MPS = SMPs (-> Scottish vote twice)
        
        If Scottish and MP have the right to vote in Westminster
        
        but if Bristish does not have the right to vote in Scottland
        
        -> fairness ? The Lothian Question
        
        Lothian region of Scotland
- - - - undependable
        
        organised the Brexit vote as a PM
        
        disappeard after the vote
      - popular : tried-and-true Conservative
      - if decide to drop TM -> become a pariah
      - -> cornered into supporting TM
    - - too extreme
      - refuse to embrace British popular culture
        
        did not sing the national anthem
      - critics liberalism but no solid political agenda
      - anti-Semitic views
- - - - the Chancellor of the Exchequer
      - official residence : 11, Downing street