What are the differences between England and U.S.'s government?

[john]

I was just wondering what the major differences were incase I think about moving to England.

[bddec97]

There are some differences in voting (the whole monarchy thing), the parliament, prime minister, etc... The big thing is that instead of being innocent until proven guilty, you are guilty until proven innocent. (the gun laws are stricter [])

[Cyrus]

Not much really, but ill give you what I know.

The local governments are assigned duties in England, while they choose what to do in the U.S.

England actually answers to the United Kingdom, so choices made by the prime minister affect England as well.

You won't have to worry about the god-forsaken political parties in England either. I guess they are smart enough to say fuck that.

[Wanda Bagram]

Good Sir, I lived in the UK for 8 months by the way.

Your question I think should be geared toward the the difference in laws not government. You see it is the Law of the land that will affect you much more than Government management.

Well in my experience the aspects of British law that I did not find agreeable to me were the following:

Higher Taxation- Salaries are taxed much higher in the UK than in the US, so your take home pay is much lower. Even if you cross check the cost of living you will find the UK is much more expensive and you have less money to live on. http://www.numbeo.com

Fewer Rights- It is very famous that in the UK there is no Right to Bear arms. But many in the US don't understand the limit of it which is very extensive. No Right to firearms, no Right to rape prevension Mace, no right to certain edge/ blunt weapons. Basically you are forced to defend yourself from a mugger in a dark alley with an umbrella. Also, you don't have FREE SPEECH, they pracice what is called FREER SPEECH which is very different. In short if they deem your words as hate speech or racially insulting it may come with a Fine or Prison sentence or both. For example a british kid wrote on his facebook he hates all soldiers and in his opinion all soldiers should die, they arrrested him for that.

Limited shopping items- For some reason certain items could not be found in the UK and your options are limited. Mostly, bulk items such as we are used to in shopping in SAMs Club or COSTCO. The UK Rarely practices in bulk purchasing for the open market and it must be special ordered for some reason.
They do have a few forms of bulk markets but they are geared more to industries than they are to home shoppers.

Lack of Space- The closer you live to downtown London the smaller your Flat will be. I mean everything is so tiny and compact you get used to purchasing light almost all the time.

[TomStar81]

The largest by far is the Monarchy and the nobility, both of which are notable absent from the US version (though we still have some nobility insofar as the rich and the popular are perceived to be above reproach to some extent). Aside from this difference other differences include a difference in the judiciary (trail witness are not for the defense or the prosecution, which slants the results somewhat more towards the state if I recall correctly), the presence of the office of the Prime Minister (who operates as our president does within systems that have a monarch), a multiparty system as opposed to a two-party system, a house of lords and house of commons rather than a house and senate as we have (though I should note here that England was at one point in its distant past a Roman colony and thus was governed by the Roman senate), fewer civil rights and liberties (gun control is MUCH more limited in England, the point where even the police do not usually carry weaponry while out on patrol, a reduced capacity for freedom of the press insofar as the government can interfere more with what is said and when it is said, etc) and a heads of the various government groups are know as ministers rather than cabinet secretaries. This is a select list, obviously, but it should be enough to illustrate the major points.

[Warren T]

They have a Parliment and their leader the Prime Minsiter is chosenn by the ruling party or ruling colation
We have a Federal Republican and our leader is elected in directly by the people