Labour Party In Power 1945-51 * Labour had won 393 seats compared to conservatives 213. * Reasons for Labour large scale victory in 1945: * Conservatives handicaps – had not understood the needs of ordinary people. Poor economy and unemployment with previous conservative government‚ unconvincing election campaign. * Labours advantages – attractive image (zeitgeist)‚ Labour better fitted to carry out post-war construction‚ leading labour figures gained respect from electorate during
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Big Brother isn’t watching you Russell Brand wrote a commentary on the 2011 UK riots. But what does he have to say? Not a lot‚ you would think‚ since he does not reside there anymore. Surprisingly‚ Brand wrote the commentary with‚ of course‚ a humoristic tone‚ but still maintaining the seriousness of this matter. Let me start by saying that the 2011 UK riots were allegedly caused by the death of Mark Duggan in police custody. Surely‚ this ought to stir the tension in some minorities‚ if not‚ larger
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takes.” They will say‚ “Women don’t have what it takes.” Clara Boothe Luce‚ a very significant author of the 30’s‚ describes the harsh judgment that was passed upon woman during this trialing time in American history. A similarly influential author‚ Margaret Fuller was one of the innovators of the feminist movement in America. Her influence on the social views of 1830’s America spread‚ from her climb up journalism ladder to her place in the Italian Revolution‚ is indisputable. Fuller’s family was obviously
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Margaret Sanger Corning‚ New York November 13‚ 1921 To legalize and inform women of safe contraceptives in America. My mother died at the age of 50 due to the strain of 18 pregnancies‚ consisting of 11 births and 7 miscarriages. I was the sixth out of those 11 children. In 1900‚ I began training as a nurse; I wanted to aid pregnant women. Since then‚ I’ve seen many poor young mothers become extremely ill and die of the strain from frequent pregnancies. During a house visit‚ I met a 28 year old mother
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To what extent does the PM dominate the political system in the UK? There are arguments to support that the PM dominates the political system. The PM has the power to do many things that will affect the state of hers/his country and therefore has to carefully consider the choices they make. The pm has many powers that proves his/hers dominance like the power of patronage‚ choosing the cabinet ministers‚ the power of royal prerogative and so on. This all gives him more power than the rest of parliament
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References: Bacon‚ R. and Eltis‚ W. (1976) Britain’s Economic Problem: Too Few Producers‚ Basingstoke: Macmillan. Bale‚ T. (2010) The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron‚ Cambridge‚ Polity. Bulpitt‚ J. (1986) ‘The Discipline of the New Democracy: Mrs Thatcher’s Domestic Statecraft’‚ Political Studies‚ 34: 19-39. Cameron‚ D. (2009) The Big Society‚ Hugo Young Lecture‚ 10/11/09. Centre for Social Justice
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growing number of wildcat strikes in the 1970s and the psychologically devastating Winter of Discontent 1978-1979 This consensus ended in 1979 with the advent of Thatcherism; Thatcher derided consensus economics‚ “unemployment was a price worth paying”; which proves that an economic consensus certainly did exist Thatcher took on the unions and wholly smashed them‚ as seen through the miner’s strike 1984-5; destroying notions of consensus industrial relationships Thatcher’s philosophy of “private
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How successful was Edward Heath as leader of the Conservative Party between 1965 and 1974? Edward Heath led the conservative party through a difficult and revolutionary period in British politics from the years 1965 to 1974‚ punctuated by the joining of the ECC in 1973‚ prolonged damaging strikes‚ high levels of inflation‚ and many monumental U-turns through the period of his office. The concept of change is most notably seen right from the offset of his leadership as he was the first conservative
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Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Margaret Mead was born on Monday‚ December 16‚ 1901‚ at the West Park Hospital in Philadelphia‚ P.A. Margaret was the first baby to be born in this hospital‚ and because of this‚ she felt different from the rest of the children‚ because they had all been born at home. Margaret’s parents were from the midwest‚ and because of their professions‚ the family moved quite a bit living in such places as Hampton‚ New Jersey; Greenwich Village in New York City
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Margaret Sanger was a very important and influential person of her time. Back then‚ women were often mistreated and had many unwanted pregnancies. Lacking effective contraceptives‚ these women resorted to unsafe and cheap abortions. Margaret Sanger wanted to help women gain planned parenthood while using safe and legal birth control methods. She also wanted to end government censorship of abortion information. This was because Sanger thought it was unfair how the government didn’t want women to have
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