Saint David and Saint david's Day

Who is Saint David?
 Dewi Saint: this is his name in Walsh language. He was born towards the end of the fifth century  also he has been born in south Wales less than a century after the last Roman legions had marched out of Wales . His mother is Non.

In sixth century were a Celtic monk abbot and bishop.
* In 589 was the death of Saint David so 1 March was chosen for remembering him, and has been celebrated by followers since then.

* People used to have a holiday for st David's day in Wales until 2006 and they are voting to have a bank holiday.

* The leek is the national flower of Wales; Welsh people all over the world proudly wear the stalk, flower or a bit of leaf from a leek plant on March 1st.

* Every year parades are held in Wales to commemorate St. David. The largest of these is held in Cardiff

To mark St. David's Day.

And here is the water in Swansea Castle Square become red for remembering.

Valentine's Day

*The VALENTINE's DAY  as we know it is about two people love each other, in fact people in 14th of February which is Valentine day are exchanging the messages , flowers , chocolate and gifts . That way is expression about the love.                                                 

* Valentine day in UK people are use texting messages by phone , in 2004  especially in Valentine days  80 million texts were sent between mobile phones , so people prefer using text messages rather than ' snail mail '

* Finally, most people invite the one who love to a nice restaurant to have a dinner and chare their love and having fun.

                                                                                                          

The government

* Firstaly , the cabinet's mean : an formal group of ministerd .it's has also 20 members on it abvouisly have to meet with outher once a week .

* Secondly, the differentbetween single party government and coalition government is

The implications of coalition and minority governments loom large in the ongoing debate

between proponents of alternative electoral systems and styles of government. Compared to

single-party majority governments, critics of coalition or minority governments say that they

limit direct accountability between citizens and government and are therefore ‘less

democratic’ (Farrell 2001, 196-198). Such direct accountability is, of course, most

emphasised by those who follow in the wake of Joseph Schumpeter, in whose theory the

ability to retrospectively dismiss officeholders becomes the essence of democracy .

* Thierdly, the Queen apears to have a great deal of power , but in fact she has little.on the other hand, the Parlimmnt appears not to have much power but in rality has a very great power.

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The house of Parliament

The British Parliament consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
* House of Commons is made up of men and women who were voted to represent their local area by people who live there.
* The House of Commons has more power than House of  Lords.
* UNITED KINKDOM consists of 659 constituencies which are : 529 constituencies in England , 72 constituencies in  Scotland and , 40 constituencies in Wales and 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland .
* They are not the same geographical size because of the population in England much bigger than others.
* The party which has most MPs will form the government after a general election .
* The person who wins most voteswill be the '' first past the post '' system .


* Nicola Blackwood

* She was born in 1979 in Johannesburg but her family returned to Oxford just two months later after her father had angered the Apartheid government by speaking up for the rights of the black community.

* The Conservative Christian Fellowship know Nicola well, she became a member in 2005 and took part in the CCF Leadership Course in 2006, and although there are many in public life who believe that this country should be entirely secular, Nicola is not one of them. Her political interests and voluntary activity in humanitarian policy, social justice and strengthening communities are both classically Conservative and classically Christian
          http://www.ccfwebsite.com/ProfileNicolaBlackwood.shtml

* Before her election to parliament, Blackwood worked as a volunteer on human rights and aid projects in the Middle East, Mozambique, Rwanda, Bangladesh, and has also worked as a volunteer among the disadvantaged in Birmingham and Blackpool. Prior to her running for office, Blackwood worked with the Conservative Party Human Rights Group which was set up to find ways for the UK to combat human rights abuses in places like Burma and the DRC. She has also worked as an adviser to the  Shadow International Development Secretary , Andrew Mitchell.

BRITAIN JOIN THE EU

Advantages

1. Transaction costs will be eliminated.
For instance, UK firms currently spend about £1.5 billion a year buying and selling foreign currencies to do business in the EU.
With the EMU this is eliminated, so increasing profitability of EU firms.

* Advice to young people: You can go on holiday and not have to worry about getting your money changed, therefore avoiding high conversion charges.

2. Price transparency.
EU firms and households often find it difficult to accurately compare the prices of goods, services and resources across the EU because of the distorting effects of exchange rate differences.
This discourages trade. According to economic theory, prices should act as a mechanism to allocate resources in an optimal way, so as to improve economic efficiency. There is a far greater chance of this happening across an area where E.M.U exists.


Disadvantages

1. The instability of the system.
Throughout most of the 1980s the UK refused to join the ERM (Exchange rate mechanism). It argued that it would be impossible to maintain exchange rate stability within the ERM, especially in the early 1980s when the pound was a petro-currency and when the UK inflation rate was consistently above that of Germany. When the UK joined the ERM in 1990 there had been three years of relative currency stability in Europe and it looked as though the system had become relatively robust. The events of Sept. 1992, when the UK and Italy were forced to leave the system, showed that the system was much less robust than had been thought.

2. Over estimation of Trade benefits.
Some economists argue that the trade and cost advantages of EMU have been grossly overestimated. There is little to be gained from moving from the present system which has some stability built into it, to the rigidities which EMU would bring.
3.  Loss of Sovereignty.
On the political side, it is argued that an independent central bank is undemocratic. Governments must be able to control the actions of the central banks because Governments have been democratically elected by the people, whereas an independent central bank would be controlled by a non elected body. Moreover, there would be a considerable loss of sovereignty. Power would be transferred from London to Brussels. This would be highly undesirable because national governments would lose the ability to control policy. It would be one more step down the road towards a Europe where Brussels was akin to Westminster and Westminster akin to a local authority.