1. How does the government work?
2. What is a daily schedule for the average person? (when is tea time and other daily events)
3. What does the queen do?
4. How does royalty work? (Getting knighted, Buckingham palace, levels of royalty)
5. What are some sights?
6. Transportation?
7. Currency?
8. What are some things I need to know?
9. What will I get shunned for doing?
10. How do you get knighted, or become a lord?
11. Meet the queen?
12. What is the Order of the British empire?
13. Facts about it?
14. What are some things similar to the Order?
15. Culture?
16. Tipping?
17. Interesting things?
18. Pastimes?
Basically whats everything about england?
I know its alot to ask so sorry but thanks for the answers.
Firstly you can't move to the UK unless you can get an immigrant visa, and unless you can fill a job on the Home Office Shortage Occupation List - basically you need to be highly qualified - you won't get one. We have enough of an unemployment problem as it is. The USA is just the same if I wanted to go and live there - unless I worked for a multinational company that wanted to transfer me to its American office, really I should forget it.
1. The UK is unitary, not federal, so there is just one level of government - there is in England at any rate. Every 5 years there is a general election to elect the House of Commons (this works by exactly the same method as the US House of Representatives), and the leader of the party that gets most seats becomes Prime Minister and is formally appointed by the Queen. It may happen, as it did last time, that no party gets more than half the seats and then they will try to work out a coalition. Then the Prime Minister appoints his or her Ministers, who will all be from the Commons or the House of Lords, and off we go for the next five years. There is a general election on 7 May this year so if you're interested, look out for it - it looks like being a very interesting one. It looks like it could well be a hung Parliament again but which will be the biggest party is anyone's guess.
2. Much the same as yours, probably.
3. She is the head of state and does the formal and diplomatic part of leading the country. Being a symbolic head is the main thing. If you think about the US President, he is both the head of state and head of government. We have the two as separate people, as most countries do - the Prime Minister leads the government, while the Queen keeps out of politics and takes the formal role. The government is technically her government (though we elect it). She does the formal State Opening of Parliament every year (the only time she wears a crown) and reads out the government's speech of what its plans are, though she doesn't write it, meets the PM every week to give her thoughts though he can ignore them, and is the formal host for visiting Presidents and other royalty. She does actually do more than most people think so she's kept busy - she gets a daily box of papers to keep her informed, some things have to be done by the Privy Council and she chairs that, and then there is touring around to see and be seen.
The job is hereditary and for life so we already know who will be King when she's gone - her eldest son, Prince Charles, and after that, HIS elder son, Prince William.
5. I suggest you read a travel guide book.
6. We are a relatively small and crowded island nation so public transport is very good. In cities especially, you can do quite well without a car. I do! We drive on the left so watch it when you cross the road.
7. The pound. Not a pound weight, a pound sterling. ￡1 = 100p. A pound is worth more than a dollar so watch it if you decide to visit us - things might be more expensive than they look.
10. I have answered this for knighthoods as you asked about this in the Royalty section. Lords are not created any more except to make new appointments to the House of Lords, so basically you need to be involved in politics.
11. Most of us never do. You might get to meet her on her travels when she "goes walkabout" to meet the crowd, but she's an old lady now and is doing much less of this. I have a friend who HAS met her, but that was because he worked for her bank and he was formally introduced to her when she went to see her bank manager.
12-14. It's just a method of giving honours - most honours for some kind of good service in whatever it is you do are given in the Order of the British Empire, MBE, OBE or CBE. There are other orders that get used for very specific purposes. One example is the Order of St Michael and St George, which is given to foreign service diplomats and other people who have given service in foreign affairs. An interesting example of that is Angelina Jolie. She has worked with our Foreign Office on the problem of sexual violence in other countries, and has been awarded a DCMG for it. That's a damehood, the female version of knight (it would have been KCMG if she was a man) so well done to her! Of course being American she can't call herself Dame Angelina so she's just got the letters. Other civil servants will get honoured with the Order of the Bath, and if the Queen wants to honour someone for personal service to her, there is the Royal Victorian Order so if you work for her for many years you might get a CVO.
9, 15. Culture is very un-American and much more like the rest of Europe. Don't be loud and be polite.
16. Yes, and I would tip London taxi drivers, in restaurants, and when I go to get my hair cut. A traditional way to do it in a pub - but only if you want to as it's not expected - is to say "have one yourself" and pay for an extra drink. Probably the barman or barmaid will just keep the money as they don't want to be tipsy while they're working.
18. There's not much to say about this except that traditional male sports are football (by which I mean soccer, NOT American football) and rugby in the winter, and cricket in the summer. American football is derived from rugby but rugby players do not wear helmets and armour plating. Cricket is best described as a kind of very slow baseball. International Test matches last five days.with lunch and tea breaks, stopping for the day when "bad light stopped play".
Classes are what you have in school, aren't they?
1. How does the government work? We would love to know. We have an election about every four or five years, and elect about 600 MP's (members of parliament). These are the crooks who rule us, a bit like your congressmen. They pick the dodgiest of their number and he (or she) becomes Prime Minister and has the sort of powers that the others would love to have. He picks a government of ministers, about 25 people with particular responsibility for certain jobs, like the Treasury, the Home Secretary, (in charge of the police and secret service and people) and a Foreign Secretary (responsible for blowing up foreign countries). He is not the head of state however, so it is not treasonous to go round saying what a slimy dishonest untrustworthy person he (or she) may be. The Head of State is the Queen, and she is constitutionally forbidden to take part in politics. We do not go much on politicians, especially if they fiddle their expenses and fiddle little boys.
If you are from the US then forget it you won't get a visa to work here
England is just ONE part of the UK..You seem NOT to realise such...Immigration is strict if no UK or other European Union passport..Want to live here & KNOW nothing about us? Joke..Can we settle in your country on a whim? UK is NOT a THEME PARK..Sick of many from US on here presuming, with such arrogance, we have a PLACE for them. Stick to own country and make it BETTER..I DO know the US and know it sure needs work....
In UK we are NOT all English, (HELPS to know the difference between English & British..) nor royalists, in favour of the OUTDATED Honours System, nor white, nor willing to play the role of jolly locals to please na?ve US tourists, who, due to the fact so FEW have a passport, know so little about the REAL WORLD......Is 2015...
Unless you are a citizen of an EU country you have very little chance of moving to
the UK
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