Analyse du parlement au Royaume-Uni

1- Understanding the text:

Answers:

• Senior conservatives:  the most influental conservatives ministers
• Former cabinet ministers:  Former high officials, former members of the government
• Cross party amendments: amendment to a bill between  political parties
• The european union withdrawal bill: The Brexit
• Peers: Counterparts
• To pass: Be voted
• MPs: Deputies
• The final brexit deal: It is the final agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union which includes the conditions of exit from the United Kingdom of the European Union and the arragements made between them.
• To vote down: To reject
• To back: To fail
• The easter recess: the recess of the parliament during which the members of parliament do not meet
• The shadow ledear of the lords: He is a member of the Phantom cabinet.
• The commons backbenches: They are deputies or members of the House of Lords that are neither government ministers nor opposition Shadow spokespeople.
• To scrutinise: To analyze.

2-  Explain the following phrases:  

• The governments flagship bill to leave the eu: It’s the Brexit, abbreviation of "British Exit", designating the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU). On 23 June 2016, in a referendum organized by former Prime Minister David Cameron, 51.9% of the British chose to leave the EU.
• The governement’s efforts to kik it into the long grass: the government’s efforts to respond to a difficult problem by doing something to ensure that people forget about it rather than trying to solve it.
• Kicking the can down what could be very rocky road : it’s to send a problem back indefinitely to the next day

Finding additional information:

3-  Chris patten: He became a member of the House of Lords in hereditary way that is to say transmission by these ancestors.

 Douglas Hogg: He became a member of the House of Lords in hereditary way that is to say transmission by these ancestors

Theresa Mae: She became a member of the House of Lords since her nomination to this position by the Queen of England.

Ros Altamann: She became a member of the House of lords since her nomination after the general election in 2015

Angela Smith: She became a member of the House of lords in hereditary way.

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Legislative Procedure or "Legislative Process".It begins with the tabling of a text with a legislative vocation.This is a government bill or a private bill of the member.The text is presented to one of the House of the parliament.The text is examined by a committee of lords and MPs. Following this review, the committee member will vote for or against the project. Mps and Lords can introduce an amendment. They will continue to vote each time they have a debate or a proposed amendment until they have a law. If members of the committee vote against the bill, the bill is subscribed. When the project is validated by both chambers, it is maintained, the two chambers must agree on the terms. If both chambers are not in agreement with the bill, the final decision goes to the house of commons. If both houses have agreed on the bill, the bill becomes a law and take the royal assent as soon as it is sent to the sovereign and valid. This law becomes the law of the land.

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