Recent content by hardeep

Here in the UK the Lords is regarded as a revising chamber and has limited powers to stop legislation from the Commons. (Until 1911 the Lords effectively had a veto on all legislation.) In our unwritten constitution it is accepted that anything in the manifesto that the Government was elected...

Trumpian?

:confused: We do NOT have to show an ID to vote in U.K. elections - you just have to announce your name and address. I'm sure many people,like myself, as a courtesy offer their polling card to the official to help them find the name so it can be crossed off. but there isn't even a need to have...

The clue is in the word "bracket" Only taxable income in that bracket is taxed at the rate. Only money in excess of that bracket is taxed at a higher rate - not all of it. In your example the first 75k of John's taxable income after deductions is taxed at 10%. So in your case he is initially...

The PM can't prevent a question being asked - most questioners are selected by lot then called by the Speaker. The Leader of the Opposition always gets six. (I suspect the SNP leader in the House may also currently get 1 or 2 every time as they are by far the third largest party with over 50...

I don't really think it's the number of votes that is the problem in the US - here in the UK the referendum had 33 million paper votes and it was pretty much counted by 7am the next day. The 2014 European elections had over 120 million votes across the EU and again was pretty much done within 8...

That's not his wife - she was sat elsewhere.