McG Comparative Government

Ed Milliband, younger brother of David Milliband, succeeds in winning the Labour Party leader position and speaks about looking forward to the future.  David Milliband was picked by all of the major campaign predictors to win the Labour Party election, but it was a big surprise when instead, his younger brother, Ed Milliband, won. With Gordon Brown, [...]

Much like the United States, Britain is facing severe economic issues and their government is looking to make significant spending cuts on several public goods and social expenditures such as the arts, military, transportation, and defense. Their goal is to save 130 billion dollars in the next five years. This is all part of David [...]

As mentioned in previous articles, the Labour Party is a major political party in Great Britain. On September 25th, a new Labour Party leader will be announced succeeding the commencement of the election. Since the Labour Party is not a party that we have in America, I wanted to look at how people were elected [...]

Tension and excitement is mounting within the United Kingdom’s Labour Party as their Leadership Elections rapidly approach. The Labour Party takes a centre-left political position and goes by a democratic socialist ideology. Unlike our system in the US, there are several parties within the United Kingdom, so the Labour Party faces opposition from the Liberal [...]

When pulling up BBC UK Political News, the reader notices a few things. First, there are words that are clearly misspelled and second, the word Labour Party is written everywhere. I decided to take an in depth look at what exactly the “Labour Party” is and why it has headlined everyday for the past week [...]

If your goal is to portray yourself as one of the common folk for the upcoming election is it really smart to make the following statement justifying your right to travel first class ? “They are a totally different type of people,” Sir Nicholas declared in aradio interview, speaking about the relative ghastliness of people [...]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been in the news quite a bit this week. On February 14, he gave a personal and somewhat unexpected television interview discussing various aspects of his life. “” Response to the interview has been mixed in Britain. Some bloggers claim it was a PR homerun for Brown. Others claim it [...]

This article explains that unemployment has finally begun to fall for the first time since the beginning of the recession in 2008. The percent of unemployment has dropped from 7.9% to 7.8% in just a month. This may not seem like a large amount but it is progress. Along with this the number of unemployed [...]

BBC News: Europe EU plans to admit more refugees “The European Commission has unveiled plans to allow more refugees from conflict zones and poor nations into European countries.” The European Union is going to start to receive more refugees from challenged nations. So that they can discourage refugees from coming into the EU illegally, because [...]

Cameron ‘trusted more’ over Cuts David Cameron, a member a leader of the Conservative Party, is more trusted in Great Britain than Prime Minister Gordon Brown when it comes to spending decisions. As of now the confidence of the people and support for Gordon Brown is lower than the support and confidence President George Bush [...]