Talk:Politics of the United Kingdom

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Spouses

Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper and Sir Nicholas and Lady Winterton serve in this current parliament. Iris recently left the Commons, but her husband remains there. Jack Dromey has been selected for a seat and is trying to join his wife, Harriet Harmon in the next parliament. Is there a place currently listing married couples in serving in the House of Commons? With Lord Kinnock and Lady Kinnock both holding seats in the Lords, it's worth asking if that information is available for the Lords as well. If not, I'd be willing to put together a list either within another list or on its own, but I would need some info on what other couples have served in this parliament or where I might find it. Thanks, Rrius (talk) 23:17, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Constituency infobox duplication

Please discuss at WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:54, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Politics

What is politics? Is it the system by which a government comes to power and legislates, or is it the government itself? I would think it was the former, this article strays mainly towards the latter. I think that most of the current contents of this article would be better placed in Government of the United Kingdom. Currently the government article focuses on just the elected party (frontbench), but I think it would be better if the Government article covered all the branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial, even monarchy) and politics covered the political parties etc. Thoughts? Am I completely wrong? Chipmunkdavis (talk) 16:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

If you look at the shorter OED it defines politics as "the science and art of government". This is the classical view. But in a wider sense politics is also about power relations within a society - the Marxist view. There is always going to be a lot of crossover between a 'politics of X' article and a 'government of X' article. What's the common practice in articles covering other countries?--Pondle (talk) 17:27, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

A mishmash, some contain only political information, some contain government information. In my opinion government would cover the system, the different branches, etc, whereas politics would cover the election system and political parties and debates etc. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 18:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

British Politics Traditions

Shouldn't there be a section on the traditions of British Politics? Tradition states that the Crown derives it's right to rule from God (hence the connection to the Church of England, references used by the Sovereign; 'We', means the Crown and God), and then Parliament derives it's right to Govern from the Crown (hence the Maces in both Houses of Parliament, hence a Limited Monarchy). (Geord0 (talk) 18:31, 19 October 2011 (UTC))

Needs Updating!

In many places throughout this article has clearly not been updated since the 2010 general election or the 2011 Scottish elections!

Surely this is supposed to be the leading article on current UK politics?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.88.25 (talk) 12:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I will look into updating this page when I get the time. I've done a bit of brief updating for the Welsh and Scottish nationalists, but that's all I can do until later. --Welshsocialist (talk) 19:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)