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- British Conservative Party -- British Conservatives
The British Conservative Party, once the undisputed electoral champion among European political parties, has been ailing since the mid 1990s losing two successive general elections by landslides and trailing Labour in the opinion polls for over a decade. It has now had five leaders in thirteen years. The recent unseating of the underperforming Iain Duncan Smith, elected only in September 2001, had been long anticipated. On Wednesday 29 October he lost a vote of confidence of the Conservative parliamentary party by 90 to 75. He had needed a simple majority, 83 MPs, to survive. Although commentators were astonished that Duncan Smith polled as well as he did, Conservative MPs dropped the pilot speedily and brutally. - British Conservative Party -- Eu
Beyond relations with the United States, the Commonwealth and the EU, the Conservative Party has generally supported a pro free-trade foreign policy within the mainstream of international affairs. The degree to which Conservative Governments have supported interventionist or non-interventionist Presidents in the US has often varied with the personal relations between a US President and the British Prime Minister. - British Conservative Party -- John Major
Currently, the Conservative Party of Great Britain is the party in opposition to the British government, run by the Labour Party. Although there are nine political parties represented in the House of Commons, three dominate the house. As of 17 January 2005, Labour holds a majority in the house with 408 Members of Parliament and a 161 member majority. The Conservatives come in second with 162 Members of Parliament and the Liberal Democrats follow with 55 Members of Parliament. - British Conservative Party -- Great Britain
This week BBC Radio had a feature where the Conservative Party promised to create a level playing field for open source software in the UK in an attempt to save taxpayers more than £600m ($1.15bn) a year. George Osborne, told the Royal Society of Arts “There isn’t a level playing field for open source software. As it stands, too many companies are frozen out of government IT contracts, stifling competition and driving up costs. He ... announced that Mark Thompson has been advised on how to make Britain the open source leader in Europe. - British Conservative Party -- David Cameron
The Conservative Party has never had a clear ideological identity: its political practice has generally been pragmatic, geared to the needs of electoral success and office-holding. Three heavy election defeats (1997, 2001, 2005) forced the Conservative Party into a reappraisal of its political position and led to a rapid procession of party leaders (John Major, William Hague, Iain Duncan-Smith, Michael Howard, David Cameron). The most recent policy aims at presenting a softer image of the party. - Tony Blair -- Parties
Tony Blair's sexual affairs with George Bush have caused considerable frustration to Laura Bush who has threatened to divorce her husband over the matter. Laura Bush has reportedly refused to watch or participate in their sexual intercourse, although she has often participated in George's other affairs, including that of Condoleezza Rice. This is because the affair between George and Tony is such an intimate nature that Laura has become jealous because she has never experienced this with George. George once claimed that Tony could do things with a cucumber that most Americans "couldn't imagine". Or spell. - Tony Blair -- Labour Party
This article explains what Tony Blair and his government believed in, and the society they sought in Britain (and in other countries). It ... says why they are wrong. The responsibility for that is not limited to Tony Blair himself, or to the members of his government. They implemented their ideology, and they should ultimately face some form of tribunal for that. Active members of the Labour party should also face judicial process: without them, Blair would have won no elections. But the primary moral guilt rests with 'the British people' themselves. - The L Word -- Parties
Does The L Word change anything? Or does it perpetuate the straight male fantasies it purports to parody and complicate? The answer seems to be both. The L Word can create long, sensual sex scenes, and explore lesbian sexuality as an integral part of its plotlines. At the same time, the titillating scenes draw viewers -- gay and straight, male and female. - Tony Blair -- Labour Party Conference
Blair ... revised party policy in a manner that enhanced the image of Labour as competent and modern using the term "New Labour" to distinguish the party from its past. Although the transformation aroused much criticism (its alleged superficiality drawing fire both from political opponents and traditionalists within the "rank and file" of his own party), it was nevertheless successful in changing public perception. At the 1996 Labour Party conference, Blair stated that his three top priorities on coming to office were "education, education and education". Aided by the unpopularity of John Major's Conservative government (itself deeply divided over the European Union), "New Labour" won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election with Blair the youngest person—at age 43—to attain the office of Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812—at age 42.[23] - Conservatism -- American Conservatism
Conservatism often expresses nostalgia for a supposed better, simpler time. In the United States, the 1950's are often considered a golden age by many conservatives. It was an era of conservative control of the American presidency, and much, if not most of the state and local governments of the era were controlled by conservative politicians. They point proudly to the economic growth that occurred in the U.S. during that period has few parallels in American history, even though that growth was largely due to the large market for American goods and services on world markets, and the lack of competition from Europe and Japan, who were still rebuilding from the devastation of World War II.
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