In the News (2013) 10/09/13 Labour changing relationship with trade unions ‘Red Ed’ (Miliband) - Communism Won election on votes on unions 10/09/13 BBC leaders leaving Large bonus being granted 10/09/13 USA decide to pull back from Syria case Want possession of their weapons to prevent any further action or damage happening 11/09/13 Nigel Evans (Deputy Speaker) arrested for child abuse May contribute to feelings of political apathy (don’t want to get involved) Deputy
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To what extent was there a Post-War Consensus between the years 1951 & 1964? The term ‘post-war consensus’ is used to describe a period of general agreement in the key areas of politics between the two main political parties following the Second World War. Prior to the 1951 Conservative election‚ Labour had introduced several important social and political reforms. It appeared that there was no systematic effort by the Conservative party when they returned to power to reverse these changes‚
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Why did the Labour government suffer an unexpected election defeat in 1970? In 1970‚ Harold Wilson’s Labour Government lost the general election to Ted Heath’s Conservatives. The Labour government had suffered economic problems (inherited from the previous Conservative government) throughout their time in office. Along with this; voters views of Wilson‚ problems with policy and awkward relations with the Trade Unions all contributed to the election defeat of 1970. Economically in the 1960’s
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The House of Lords in 1909 consisted mainly of aristocrats that where part of the conservative party. There are many different reasons for the rejection of the people’s budget‚ which was an idea‚ brought forward by David Lloyd George of the Liberal party. The swift rejection by the House of Lords sparked the first constitutional crisis of the 20th century. The first reason I am going to bring forward is that this new budget included the idea of taxation on the rich for money that would go to support
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The Reader’s Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom The Road to Serfdom FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK The condensed version of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of Reader’s Digest The Institute of Economic Affairs First published in Great Britain in 1999 in the ‘Rediscovered Riches’ series by The Institute of Economic Affairs 2 Lord North Street Westminster London sw1p 3lb Reissued in the ‘Occasional Paper’ series in 2001 This condensed version
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Margaret Thatcher’s death: reaction from the United States From the Guardian Rightwing friends and communist foes say former prime minister was charismatic‚ formidable‚ warlike and uncompromising Barack Obama led tributes‚ describing Margaret Thatcher as "one of the great champions of freedom and liberty" and a true friend to the US. Former president George HW Bush and the Republican House speaker John Boehner also paid generous tributes. Obama‚ in a statement from the White House‚ focused on
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In 2004‚ Margaret Thatcher delivered a eulogy to honor Ronald Reagan during the time period that America had witnessed the 9/11 attack‚ the ongoing fight against terrorism‚ and the Iraq war. Margaret Thatcher‚ the former prime minister of Great Britian and good friend of Reagan’s‚ appealed to patriotism and nationalism‚ and used Reagan’s adversity‚ vision and accomplishments to urge the grieving American audience to recognize Raegan as an inspiring American example and as a dedicated leader.
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Margret Thatcher and the Falkland Islands Thatcher’s handling of the Falklands crisis can be considered to be successful as she triumphed over the Argentines‚ winning back the islands‚ and also she finished in a much stronger position politically‚ and internationally. Thatcher managed to secure international backing‚ as she secured the backing of NATO‚ and more importantly the USA. This was to play a huge part in the Falklands crisis as she obtained the loaning of the Ascension Islands which proved
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Margaret Sanger (1879 – 1966)‚ Birth control Margaret Sanger was born as Margaret Louisa Higgins on the 14th of September 1879 in New York. She was one of the 11 children born to Catholic working-class Irish American family. Her mother went through the 18 pregnancies (11 live birth and 7 miscarriages) in 22 years so that means that every 1.2 year she got pregnant. She died at the age of 40 (some sources say at 50) of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. The family lived on poverty because of father’s
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Margaret Sanger: Radical Heroine Margaret Sanger founded a movement in this country that would institute such a change in the course of our biological history that it is still debated today. Described by some as a "radiant rebel"‚ Sanger pioneered the birth control movement in the United States at a time when Victorian hypocrisy and oppression through moral standards were at their highest. Working her way up from a nurse in New York’s poor Lower East Side to the head of the Planned Parenthood
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