Zusammenfassung der Ressource
(9) Constitutional change under labour
- Background
- 18 years out of government
- promised constitutional
reform in the manifesto
- made no attempt a complete reform for
instance a creation of a codified constitution
- Labour party aims in making
constitutional change
- To increase it electability
- to maintain the position of the progressive party
- political context to the
change
- Solve problems
in North Ireland
- Growing EU intergation
- Scotland independent
- resons for the Labour to
make constitonal change
- Labour had a traditional of constitutional reform
- High priority
- left leaning pressure groups
- Opposition to thatcher
- Liberal democrats
- three examples of
constitutional change
- Devolution of Scotland 1999,
Wales 1999 and Northern Ireland
- Different
electoral system
PR
- Creation of the Greater
London Authority
- The view of Blairs
constitutional changes
- The supporters unprecedented
- critics did not
go far enough
- scottish nationalists not
fully satisfied
- house of lords reform
not fully completed
- human rights to not go as far as in some
country like USA
- Brown constitutional changes
proposed in 2007
- reduce voting age to16
- election on weekends
- national
security council
- new bill of right's
- demonstrations
near parliament
- some hints to codified constitution
- the legacy Labour left in 2010
- Under Blair there was a thrust to have
constitutional reform up in till 2001
- Under brown there was a lot of proposed constitutional
reform but the economic crises stalled most of the
reforms becasue the government was mainly concerted
with the economy.