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The Government of – Antigua & Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a country located in the West Indies, between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic ocean and it includes the two main islands of which it is named after, Antigua being the largest and includes the capital and largest port city, St John’s and then the smaller 2nd main island of Barbuda, the […]

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The Conservative Leadership Election – Candidates – Part 3

Featured Photo: Photo source. License. I edited a title on to the photo. Note: James Cleverley pulled out of the Leadership race on 4th June and so has been removed from this blogpost.  Mark Harper Harper has been Conservative MP for Forest of Dean since 2005. Currently he holds no notable positions within government, simply serving […]

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The Conservative Leadership Election – Candidates – Part 2

Featured Photo – Photo source. License. I edited a title over the picture.  UPDATE: Conservatives have changed their leadership election rules. MPs now require the backing of at least 7 MPs to stand (although it says 8 MPs, candidates count one as themselves) and also require to have a certain number of votes from MPs […]

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The Conservative Leadership Election – Candidates – Part 1

Featured Photo: Photo source. License. I edited a title on to the picture. With the Tories getting ready to choose their next Party Leader, I thought I would go over the current declared candidates, including senior positions they have held in government as well as their stance on BREXIT. I have it as Part 1 as […]

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The Conservative Leadership Election – How Does it Work? And What May It Lead to?

Featured Photo: from defenceimagery.mod.uk. License. After long anticipation of her departure, Theresa May has finally announced her resignation as Prime Minister and stepping down as Conservative Party leader, meaning a leadership election within the party will be triggered, most likely leading to a new Prime Minister, at some point in July, being the likeliest. I […]

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The UK EU Parliament Election 2019 – Leave Vs. Remain

In the end it really was Leave Vs. Remain and this was really expected for an election that wasn’t even supposed to happen, but due to a number of setbacks for the BREXIT deadline due to no agreement on a BREXIT deal being reached, the UK had to take part. As was expected Nigel Farage’s […]

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The Government of – Angola

Featured Photo: picture of country from Google Maps, owned by Google. I edited the Angolan flag in the corner. Angola is a country located in Southern Africa with a long coast along the south of the Atlantic Ocean, the country was a Portuguese colony until it gained its independence in 1975 after a long and […]

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A Day for the Independents and 3rd Parties – UK Local Elections 2019

Featured Photo: By Nilfanion from Wikimedia. License. Yesterday the UK public exercised their Democratic duties by electing thousands of councilors in wards across hundreds of councils in England – 248 councils to be exact, 259 if you also count the council elections in Northern Ireland, but this post is specifically focusing on the results in […]

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The Government of – Andorra

Featured Photo: Map owned by Google from Google Maps. Flag of Andorra edited on by me is in Public Domain. Andorra is a tiny country tucked away in the Pyrenees mountains in Europe, completely landlocked by both Spain and France. As of 2017 it had a small population of just under 77,000, a drop in […]

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Ukraine’s ‘Comedic’ Presidential Election – The Continued Rise of the Non-Establishment

With the interesting results coming out of the 1st Round of the Presidential Election in Ukraine, I thought I would do a different blogpost today, postponing my current Government Explanation Series. The result of the exit poll, which are normally very accurate, have the top two candidates as…   Volodymyr Zelenskiy topping it with 30.4% of the vote. […]