General Election stories:
Sikh campaigner for BNP set to become party's first non-white member
Nov 20th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
A Sikh man who has campaigned for the BNP in support of its anti-Islam stance has been put forward to be the party's first non-white member. Rajinder Singh, who is in his late 70s...
Iraq MPs to reconsider vote law on Saturday
Nov 19th, 2009 - The Times of India
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi parliament will onSaturday attempt to finally pass an electoral law jeopardised by Vice PresidentTarek al-Hashemi's demand that it be changed before a general election can goahead. Iraq's presidential council...
Sats tests 'may be scrapped', hints Ed Balls
Nov 19th, 2009 - Telegraph
Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, said he was “not closing the door” to the abolition of exams following a major review.
The move will be seen as an attempt...Gordon Brown: The country has a stark choice to make
Nov 19th, 2009 - Mirror.co.uk
Gordon Brown last night warned there was now a stark choice facing the country as he set out battle lines for the general election. In an exclusive article for the Mirror...
MPs' expenses: fraud charges for six MPs and lords
Nov 19th, 2009 - Telegraph
Detectives will pass files imminently on the Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead to the Crown Prosecution Service...
General Election videos from YouTube:
- UK General Election 1997...John Major's emotional concession speech during the UK General Election 1997. Taken from ITV's coverage.
- Alan Partridge - The Election...Rare footage of Patridge from Armando Iannucci's 'Election Night Armistice' on BBC2, 1997.
- UK General Election 1945:...The UK General Election of 1945 is perhaps the most notorious in British political history. It saw the Labour party defeat the Conservatives and sitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who ...
- Lord Beginner - General...Lord Beginner - General election
General Election from WikiPedia:
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
The term originates in the United Kingdom general elections for the House of Commons.
The General elections in United Kingdom refer to the election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons; these must be held 5 years after the first session of the new parliament, (usually within 5 years and 1 month of the last one to due to the time it takes for parliament to assemble and the election campaign), but are often held before that time as it is up to the parties in government when to call a general election. The current Labour Party government have held general elections every four years since coming to power in May 1997 and thereafter in June 2001 and May 2005. Therefore another election is not legally obliged to occur until June 2010.
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