Task 5.1 Examine and Explain: The First-Past-the-Post System
“General Election 2019: results and analysis”, click on the report from the House of Commons Library and study the graphs and the map on pages 3 and 4.
Task 5.2 Poetry Analysis: A Dead Statesman
The Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) wrote the short poem “A Dead Statesman” as a comment on the demagogues of his age.
A Dead Statesman
I could not dig: I dared not to rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall server me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
