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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 32 We The Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power A. J. Davies Little Brown and Co London, 1995, 20 Colin Challen Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative history. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake's standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The Nation provides an ...
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... ' right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an 'anti wet' alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical traditions within the Conservative Party, (1) united by their opposition to the dominant, mainstream tradition within the Conservative Party. Once Thatcher's position as party leader and then as Prime Minister, had been consolidated, it was inevitable that cracks would begin to show in this alliance. ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 45 Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992 Timothy Evans Oxford and Providence (USA): Berghahn Books, 1996, 10, h/b Why review a book published in 1996? Well, I received this recently, assumed it was current and didn't notice the publication date until I began to write this. In the early 1980s it began to dawn on people on the left of British politics- including ...
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... branch turned out to have briefly contained a number of people from the far right of the Tory Party. Some had once been associated with Western Goals before it folded, for example, and are now associated with the absurdly titled Revolutionary Conservatives, and the Campaign for Conservative Victory, an umbrella group for the Anti-Federal Europe Movement, Conservatives Against a Federal Europe, Conservative Patriotic Forums etc. (Both the Revolutionary Conservatives and the Campaign for a Conservative Victory are at BCM 6137 London WC1N 3XX). The chair of the Campaign for ...
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... , health issues and the like. Quangos, charities, think tanks, professional bodies (like the BMA), trade unions and religious movements or 'cults' are also included, wherever their activities have some involvement in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee or Labour's Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another useful feature of the volume is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal or informal ...
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... MP Stan Thorne MP Kevin McNamara MP All members of the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster (CDU) which monitored civil rights (or their absence) in Northern Ireland. CDU was prominent in pressing for reform in 1968/9 Lord Belstead (John Ganzoni) 1973-74 Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary Northern Ireland; House of Lords spokesman; maintained interest in local legislation as Conservative front bencher 1974-79 William van Straubenzee MP 1972-74 Conservative Minister of State in the Northern Ireland office. Known as 'the Bishop' in Westminster, he presided over a committee ...
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... essence, Mills holds that it is monetarist doctrine/dogma which is primarily responsible for the low growth rates in the British and European economies since the seventies. And that monetarism itself is the enemy of enterprise, a financial orthodoxy which is the natural correlate of a conservative social and political orthodoxy. With its emphasis on tight money, high interest and exchange rates, conditions which slow down productive enterprise, and make it easier to import and harder to sell abroad, it is a doctrine which not only appeals to the socially conservative ...
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... Ramsay Introduction While researching the Rhodesia chapters of our book, I came across the Anglo-Rhodesian Society, and discovered that, as usual with the British right, there was no substantial account of it. Here is the result of an initial trawl. Future historians of the Conservative Party may discover that upon its heart in the 1960s "Rhodesia" was indelibly graven.(1) With the arrival of Mrs Thatcher in 1975 came "the New Right", with about as much claim to be called "new" as had the ...
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... of the great men of the twentieth century, who dominates modern times and deserves personal credit for having saved Britain from defeat in the Second World War and the world from Nazi tyranny. This is still very much the dominant viewpoint and forms one of the cornerstones of conservative ideology in post-war Britain. The Churchill myth allowed the Conservative Party, much of which was tainted by appeasement, to confiscate the Second World War and make it their own. This process has continued down to the present day with the likes of Margaret Thatcher, ...
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... being in care with a mental illness is that you can still vote. Six men at Bunyan Lodge had apparently given permission for votes to be cast on their behalf.( [2]) Their votes had gone in pairs to relatives or friends of a local Conservative party worker; for the law states that a person cannot have more than two proxy votes assigned to them. Bunyan Lodge is in the De Parys electoral ward – a quiet and leafy area of Bedford, with a number of care homes. Care homes are ...
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