Valentine's Day And St.David's Day

Valentine's Day(14th Feb):

Nowadays, Valentine's Day has become an international festival. The 14^th February every year is the date of Valentine’s Day. Couples celebrate this festival every year. The young through this festival to send an anonymous card to express their secretly love, majority of people use text message to express their love to each other. The old still have this festival to celebrate their love and refresh it.

In the Valentine’s Day, people not only use cards to send to each other, but also give their boyfriend/girlfriend some chocolates and roses as gift. This festival is a chance to express people’s love as well.



St. David's Day(1st March):

                                                                       Saint David

St. David in Welsh called Dewi Sant, he could be seen as a hero in Wales because he finished a lot of churchs in Wales. He was die at 1st March c.589. Therefore people are order to commemorate him and set up 1st  March called St. David Day every year.

                                                                      leek - daffodil

Leek and daffodil are two symbols to celebrate the St. David Day, Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate this festival. It is a very important festival for the Welsh.

The government of the United Kingdom

 1:Cabinet is a formal group to make the decision for government, there are approximately 20 members in this group. They have a meeting once a week, it could be seen as a significant organization of government.

2:The British Prime Minister has more power than the British Queen.

3:Local governments resoinsible for collecting the rubbish, cleaning and tidying of all public place and many things.


The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP:

Philip Hammond is response for British Transport, he comes from a wide background. He used to be a businessman and hold a medium size company in manufacturing.
He graduated from oxford university with  Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Philip first stood for Parliament in Newham North East in 1994. Having been defeated in that by-election, he was elected in 1997 for the Surrey constituency of Runnymede and Weybridge. 

The Parliament in Britain

Firstly, there are two Houses of Parliament in britain which are the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Both of them have a big power, but the House of Commons has more power than the House of Lords because the House of Commons decides the national policy but the House of Lords not.

MPs is the Members of Parliament and each one represents a geographical area, In the United Kingdom, there are 659 constituencies, 529 in England, 72 in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland. The size of them depend on the density of population to each area, so they are not all the same geographical size.
It is essentail to poll and choose a MP, So when there is a general election,  people start advocating to the candidate who is in their eyes. Than people vote for a person to be the MP for their constituency. Whole vote system is called "first past the post", it is easy to understand, who got more vote, who could become the MP. After the general election, a political party with most MPs forms will be set up.


In addition, I have done some research about women MPs:

Election year	Female MPs	%	Con	Lab	Lib	Others	Candidates
1945	24	3.8	1	21	1	1	87
1950	21	3.4	6	14	1	-	127
1951	17	2.7	6	11	-	-	77
1955	24	3.8	10	14	-	-	92
1959	25	4	12	13	-	-	81
1964	29	4.6	11	18	-	-	90
1966	26	4.1	7	19	-	-	81
1970	26	4.1	15	10	-	1	99
1974 (Feb)	23	3.6	9	13	-	1	143
1974 (Oct)	27	4.3	7	18	-	2	161
1979	19	3	8	11	-	-	216
1983	23	3.5	13	10	-	-	280
1987	41	6.3	17	21	2	1	329
1992	60	9.2	20	37	2	1	571
1997	120	18.2	13	101	3	3	672
2001	118	17.9	14	95	5	4	636
2005	128	20	17	98	10	3	720
2010	143	22	49	81	7	6	861

This chart shows that the women MPs & parliamentary candidates since 1945, so there are 143 women MPs now in 2010.



The first female MP in Britian is called Janet 'Jennie'  Lee who was born in 1904, she was elected to Parliament as Labour MP for North Lanarkshire in March 1929 when she was 24 years old. Unfortunately,

Resourse:
http://www.ukpolitical.info/FemaleMPs.htm

http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/archives-the-suffragettes/archives-the-first-women-in-parliament-1919-1945/

The Advantages and Disadvangtages of belonging to the EU.

Nowadays, Almost of european countries has joined the EU. People's attitude to join the EU vary from person to person.

Now I am going to talk about the merit first.

Advantage:Member countries could acquire many benefits such as several political and economic freedoms and the memberships also can share their science and technology with each other, Most of that might be promote the development of each countres' economy. Than, Most citizens live in different member countries may move between countries easier.It realize that not only the economy will be promoted , but also the multiculturalism will be promoted as well.In addition, the european union has their own common currency what is the Euro,it can be used in most parts of europe, it also makes people's life very convenient.

After advantage,there are a few drawbacks as well,For instance the EU institution ask the sovereinety power to help them , and they can control some trades, some politics problems.

All in all , the organisation of european union bring many benefits as we all know, it can be seen as a good organisation.