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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign state in the European Union. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, it includes the island of "Great Britain" (a term also applied loosely to refer to the whole country), the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands.Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to its east, the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south-southwest. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 93,800 square miles (243,000 km2), the UK is the 80th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also is the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 64.5 million inhabitants.

The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. Its capital city is London, an important global city and financial centre with an urban population of 10,310,000, the fourth-largest in Europe and second-largest in the European Union. The current monarch—since 6 February 1952—is Queen Elizabeth II. The UK consists of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The latter three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast, respectively. The nearby Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Bailiwick of Jersey are not part of the United Kingdom, being Crown dependencies with the British Government responsible for defence and international representation.

United Kingdom (disambiguation)

The United Kingdom is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.

United Kingdom may also refer to:

  • United Kingdom (album)
  • Political union, a state formed out of smaller states
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1922
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain, a sovereign state from 1707 to 1800
  • United Kingdom of England, a state from the 10th century to 1707
  • United Kingdom (album)

    United Kingdom is the fourth album by American Music Club. It was recorded primarily for the UK, where the band had a larger following than in their native USA, and consists of a mixture of studio and live tracks. The LP was produced by Tom Mallon who also produced the band's previous three LPs, The Restless Stranger, Engine and California. United Kingdom contained the song "Kathleen", the most obvious of many that Mark Eitzel has composed about his long-term muse, Kathleen Burns.

    Track listing

    All songs written by Mark Eitzel.

  • "Here They Roll Down" - 4:12
  • "Dreamers of the Dream" - 2:59
  • "Never Mind" (Live at the Hotel Utah) - 4:05
  • "United Kingdom" - 4:20
  • "Dream Is Gone" - 3:55
  • "Heaven of Your Hands" - 3:01
  • "Kathleen" (Live at the Hotel Utah) - 2:20
  • "The Hula Maiden" (Live at the Hotel Utah) - 4:59
  • "Animal Pen" - 3:20
  • Personnel

  • Mark Eitzel - Vocals, guitar
  • Vudi - Guitar, accordion, backing vocals
  • Tom Mallon - Bass; producer
  • Mike Simms - Drums
  • Charles Gillingham - Piano
  • United Kingdom general election, 2001

    The United Kingdom general election, 2001, was held on Thursday, 7 June 2001, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. It was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media, as the Labour Party was re-elected with another landslide result and only suffered a net loss of five seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before – 59.4%, compared to 71.3% in the previous election. Tony Blair went on to become the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a second consecutive full term in office.

    There was little change outside Northern Ireland, with 620 out of the 641 seats electing candidates from the same party as they did in 1997. Factors contributing to the Labour victory were a strong economy and falling unemployment, as well as that Labour was seen as having delivered on many key election pledges that it had made in 1997. The Conservative Party, under William Hague's leadership, was still deeply divided on the issue of Europe and the party's policy platform was considered to have shifted to a right-wing focus. Hague was also hindered by a series of embarrassing publicity stunts, and resigned as party leader three months later, becoming the first Conservative leader since Austen Chamberlain to leave office without becoming Prime Minister.

    United Kingdom general election, 2015

    The United Kingdom general election of 2015 on 7 May 2015 elected the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom. Each of the 650 parliamentary constituencies elected one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons, the dominant house of Parliament. It was the first general election at the end of a fixed term Parliament. Local elections took place in most of England on the same day.

    Polls and commentators had predicted the outcome would be 'too close to call' and would result in a second hung parliament similar to the 2010 election. Opinion polls were eventually proven to have underestimated the Conservative vote, which bore resemblance to their surprise victory in the 1992 general election. The British Polling Council began an inquiry into the variance between opinion polls and the actual result. Having governed in coalition with the Liberal Democrats since 2010, the Conservative Party won 36.9% of the vote and 330 seats, this time with a working majority of 12. This was despite a small swing from Conservative to Labour. Conservative leader David Cameron subsequently formed the first Conservative majority government since 1992. The Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband, saw a small increase in their vote share to 30.4%, but incurred a net loss of seats to return 232 MPs. This was their lowest seat tally since the 1987 election. Senior Labour shadow cabinet members, notably Ed Balls, Douglas Alexander, and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, were defeated.

    United Kingdom general election, 1945

    The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, owing in part to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas.

    The result was an unexpected landslide victory for Clement Attlee's Labour Party, over Winston Churchill's Conservatives, giving Labour its first majority government, and a mandate to implement its postwar reforms. The 12.0% national swing from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party remains the largest ever achieved in a British general election.

    Background

    Held less than two months after VE Day, it was the first general election since 1935, as general elections had been suspended during the Second World War. Attlee, leader of the Labour party, refused Churchill's offer of continuing the Wartime Coalition until the Allied defeat of Japan. Parliament was dissolved on 15 June.

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established on 1 January 1801 under the terms of the Acts of Union 1800, by which the nominally separate kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland were united. In 1922, twenty-six of thirty-two counties of Ireland seceded to form the Irish Free State (later becoming the Republic of Ireland) and, to reflect the change in the United Kingdom's boundaries, the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 formally amended the name of the UK Parliament to the "Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

    The period began with the newly formed United Kingdom defeating the French Empire in 1814 in the Napoleonic Wars. As a direct result of this, the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century. Great Britain and the northeast of Ireland industrialised rapidly, whereas the rest of Ireland did not, deepening economic and social disparities between them. A devastating famine, exacerbated by government inaction in the mid-19th century, led to demographic collapse in much of Ireland, and increased calls for Irish land reform and the devolution of executive power. During and after the Great War, the rise of Irish nationalism and physical force republicanism eventually culminated in the Irish War of Independence, and in 1922 the partition of Ireland between the newly founded Irish Free State and the northeast, which opted to remain part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland.

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    There's a gang I've just joined
    There's a gang I've just joined
    Three million strong you'd agree
    Four million strong you'd agree
    Enrollment was easy, so easy
    Getting out proves to be the difficulty
    From land's end to john o'groats
    From land's end to john o'groats
    They are making ends meet
    Mending holes in their coat
    Fasting and feasting on bread and margarine
    Burning dreams build upon buried hopes
    United kingdom - you'd better ring them
    You've a solution - you better bring them
    United kingdom - united kingdom
    You've a solution - you better bring them
    Opportunity, I guess they all came and went
    Finding it hard
    Finding the rent you'll find it funny
    With your finger running down
    Situations vacant
    In school he was an athlete
    Now he's not so self-assured
    "after all of these o-levels is this my reward? "
    There's a silent majority, that's seen and
    Never heard from charles i, charles ii
    To charles iii
    United kingdom - you'd better ring them
    You've a solution - you better bring them
    United kingdom - united kingdom
    This busted, rusted, upper-crusted
    Bankrupted done and dusted
    No-man-to-be-trusted united kingdom
    Proud to stand beneath the union jack?
    Happy dealing up a no ace pack?
    Polishing black boots
    Priming the riot squad
    There go I but for the grace of god
    Covering up the agony with mindless entertainment
    You'll be happy when they're ripping up the pavement
    Bringing down the axe on steelworks and foundries
    Someone said love knows no boundaries
    Close your eyes and think of england
    Lie back and think of her
    United kingdom - you better ring them




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