What is the difference between parliament and government? Video Lecture | How does UK Parliament's Education Service works? - Personal Learning

>>Right I just learnt pretty much everything there is to know about Parliament
and I reckon I can teach it to you in about five minutes
>>five minutes? I've spent my whole life
studying
>>yeah well you're obviously not
very good at it and then, okay?
I'll keep this short and sweet unless anyone keeps interrupting, alright?
here we go, this is the prime minister
and his cabinet
>> hang on a minute that's a bunch of monkeys!
>>A bit of respect please Brian! Oh right yeah.
anyway this is the government, it has about 100 ministers
who are each responsible for different areas of our lives like transport
education even food and sport the government makes decisions on our behalf
but it can't do anything it likes there's
Parliament
Parliament is bigger and the
government's part of it
>> Parliament is the highest authority in
the UK
it's our legislative body which means
that it makes it revises
most of the laws in the UK. >>oh nice one
hey I'm reading this book it's called
everyone loves a know it all
>> Are you? >>No cos no-one wrote it!
as well as making and changing laws
Parliament has to keep an eye on
and influence the government this is
called 'scrutiny'
which sounds quite painful
>> So, Parliament and government are two very different things
parliament in the highest authority in
Britain and keeps a check...>>ahem!
there's a five-minute time limit here
if you don't mind Parliament is made up a
three things
the Monarch, the House of Lords and the
House and Commons
The House of Commons contains all the 646 Members of Parliament or
MP's these - these are the people we vote for a general elections
each MP represents a different part of the the country and an MP's political area is called
a constituency
so what does Parliament actually do?
well stuff is the short answer loads of stuff
is a bit longer. Longer again both the
House of Commons and the House of Lords
spend around half the time making I'm
passing new laws
MP's can also bring up the subjects
for debate
so everyone gets their opinions heard as
there's lots of opinions
sometimes everyone shouts at the same
time. >>ORDER!
and Parliament scrutinizes what the
government is doing
especially how it raises and spends
money.>>And how does the government do
that?
>>Well, we pay for everything in the country through taxes
income tax on what we earn, VAT on what we buy
council tax for local services pretty
much
all government's money comes from us. The government spends its money on things
like...
schools, hospitals, emergency services
the legal system and the armed forces.>> So how does Parliament scrutinize the
government
and make sure our taxes are spent wisely?>>It does a few things
its members asked the government awkward
questions
and they form groups of people call
committees
which scrutinize the work that
individual government departments
the House of Lords scrutinizes the government too
they also helped introduce new laws
and have their own committees
investigating big issues like Europe,
science
on the economy. This concludes my high
speed blah blah free guide to
Parliament and government,
any questions?>>I'm impressed
it was a triumph of brevity and
concision, a waffle free whistle-stop
summary of the workings of a
parliamentary system.
A pithy, high-octane precis of
constitutional hiearchy.
it was a....
sorry!