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House of Commons & House of Lords - Coggle Diagram
House of Commons & House of Lords
The House of Commons, where all the people have been elected at the General Election work, as MPs, for the next five years.
The House of Commons includes people in other political parties, as well as those in the winning party who were not chosen to be ministers.
The House of Commons can ratify a law.
The members of the House of Commons receive a salary.
The members of the House of Commons have great legislative and decision-making power.
The House of Lords, whose members are mostly appointed for life rather than elected. They have often been chosen because of their achievements and experience.
Many members of the House of Lords do not belong to a political party.
The House of lords has no deliberative capacity.
The members of the House of Lords don't receive a salary, but if they aren't from London they receive allowences to move.
The members of the House of Lords can amend a law, but they cannot block budget laws.
The UK Parliament is made up of people who have been elected and people who have been appointed. They sit in two separate Houses:
Famous people appointed by the Queen for giving prestige to the nation:
The main political parties in the House of Commons are:
LABOUR party
Liberal Democratic party
CONSERVATIVE party
CURIOSITY: in the past the members of the House of Commons were sitting facing each other and they couldn't cross the red lines drawn on the floor because if this happened they were skewered.
Nowadays these lines linked to the tradition still exist.
