[PDF file]: […] Jim, but not as we want it…… First, the City of London. It was not reformed by the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 and, further, the business vote was abolished in 1969 in all other United Kingdom local authority elections except for the City. A special place indeed. In 2002 16,000 new business voters […]
[PDF file]: […] from liberal secularist assault – were to increasingly become the core of Christian Right politics. The Moral Majority claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote in its first year of existence and, at its height, had some 7 million supporters. When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency against Jimmy Carter in […]
[…] couple of chapters that discuss specific areas. First, the City of London. It was not reformed by the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 and, further, the business vote was abolished in 1969 in all other United Kingdom local authority elections except for the City. A special place indeed. In 2002 16,000 new business voters […]
[PDF file]: […] significant role in a future Labour government, though, he found himself plunged into the whirlpool of London politics, while nationally the war with Argentina rebooted the Conservative vote and saw Thatcher first past the post in June 1983. Opposition Back in the Commons, rather than returning to a ministerial career, Sedgemore found himself in […]
[PDF file]: […] is accepted. It’s totally different from that Little England that Thatcher tried to hold on to.’ I presume these comments were made pre-23 June 2016. The anti-EU vote has much wider ramifications – and not least the politics of those who successfully propelled us to the result. For many who supported the struggle for […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘an answer to prayer’. (p. 15) The result was that Trump received the votes of ‘more than 80 percent of the white born-again Christians’ with the evangelical vote counting ‘for nearly a third of all the votes cast for Trump’ (p. 26). He quotes Pastor Robert Jeffress to the effect that millions of Christian […]
[…] are still in charge of the party. This became open when Mrs May refused to answer the question put to her by Iain Dale: ‘How would you vote now if there was a referendum on leaving the EU?’68 Meanwhile, at the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn announced that Labour’s policy would be to guarantee […]
[PDF file]: […] newspaper Haaretz on 17 January 2010, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, had been told that if he did not get a deferral of the vote on the Report at the UNHCR, ‘Israel would turn the West Bank into a second Gaza’. (pp. xiii, xv) The Goldstone Report The Report looked at […]
[PDF file]: […] its tastes were became apparent in April 1967 when Radio 270 gave up a significant part of its air time to political broadcasts – advocating that people vote Conservative in the May 1967 municipal elections. These broadcasts were made by Patrick Wall MP – who also spoke frequently on air in favour of supporting […]
[PDF file]: […] the six/nine/ten/twelve member-states failed to sign up to everything together. Indeed, Major’s opt-outs were the template for the four subsequent Denmark-specific optouts that persuaded the Danes to vote ‘Yes’ a second time round). Two, the Danish ‘No’ spooked the currency markets, which smelled weakness in terms of ERM members’ commitment to stick to the […]
