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  Crispin Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crispin Blunt was born in 1960 and is married with two children.
At the 1997 general election, Blunt was elected to Parliament as Member for Reigate in Surrey, replacing he long-serving euro-sceptic MP George Gardiner, who had been deselected by the local Conservative Party.
Blunt and was subsequently appointed to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crispin_Blunt   (597 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Crispin Blunt is the Conservative MP for Reigate.
In 1993 Crispin was appointed as Special Adviser to Malcolm Rifkind the Secretary of State for Defence, and worked in the same capacity when Malcolm Rifkind became Foreign Secretary between 1995 and 1997.
In May 1997 Crispin Blunt was elected to Parliament as Member for Reigate in Surrey and was subsequently appointed to the House of Commons Defence Select Commmittee.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Crispin_Blunt   (429 words)

  
 Crispin Blunt MP gives Politics Talk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mr Blunt's main enthusiasms and occupations away from work are his family and cricket.
In June 2001 Mr Blunt was re elected as Member of Parliament for Reigate with an increased majority of 8025.
In May 2005 Mr Blunt was returned as the MP for Reigate with an increased majority.
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 Correspondents Report - UK Conservative Party attempts recovery
Like former frontbencher, Crispin Blunt, who just before the Tory's local government triumph quit his post, declaring the Party would be better off led by anyone other than Iain Duncan Smith.
CRISPIN BLUNT: Until we get a leader who can put over our policies we will not win the next general election.
Crispin Blunt was honest enough to say it.
www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2003/s851664.htm   (969 words)

  
 blunt | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Blunt (or Blount) is a common surname of English derivation, meaning "blonde, fair" (Old French blund), or "dull" (Middle English blunt, blont)
Crispin Blunt (b.1961), English Conservative MP for Reigate.
Ein Blunt ist eine mit Marihuana gefüllte Zigarre.
www.babylon.com /definition/blunt/All   (447 words)

  
 Reigate Constituency Labour Party
Mr Blunt needs to answer this question: 'Is his party's policy to open a new hospital in Pease Pottage or not?' If not, he should tell his colleague to take this commitment off their website.
Mr Blunt MP is the one engaging in cynical political conniving in relation to the local hospital trust and not Laura Moffatt, the Labour MP for Crawley.
Crispin Blunt MP's annual expenses (based on 2002- 2003) were slightly higher than the national average of £118,000 at £119,380, perhaps surprisingly so given the constituency's proximity to London.
www.technologywriters.co.uk /reigateclp/townendnews.html   (8428 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Profile: Crispin Blunt
Like Iain Duncan Smith, Mr Blunt was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and went on to have a successful military career before entering politics.
A former captain in the Royal Hussars, Mr Blunt was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal.
Married with two children, Mr Blunt is a keen cricketer, having played for the Lords and Commons team and the Reigate Priory Cavaliers.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2995523.stm   (482 words)

  
 News Media International
Mr Blunt, 42, resigned from his frontbench post as polls closed in the local elections on Thursday night, declaring that Mr Duncan Smith was a "handicap" to the Tories.
Mr Blunt insisted that he was "doing my duty as a Conservative MP" in bringing the question of the leadership into the open.
She said that gains of up to 600 seats in Thursday's elections, in which the Conservatives won the largest share of the vote with 34%, showed that the party was "moving forward" under his leadership.
www.nmiuk.com /alert.php?ann_id=117   (418 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Politics - Tory leader hit by Blunt attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
IAIN Duncan Smith was last night trying to crush an attempt to depose him as Conservative leader as one of his front-bench team resigned and demanded an immediate leadership challenge.
Crispin Blunt, a long-time enemy of Mr Duncan Smith, quit as a shadow trade and industry minister last night, saying he can no longer serve under a leader who is driving the party into the ground.
In a statement, the MP for Reigate said that Mr Duncan Smith cannot be seen as a "credible" alternative prime minister and should be deposed long before the next general election.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=499532003   (425 words)

  
 peterainsworth.com
Crispin Blunt is holding a debate with the Foreign Office where he will make the case for the Government to discharge its responsibilities to these British citizens who have been so shabbily treated over the last 40 years.
Peter Ainsworth, Crispin Blunt, Cllr Mrs Joan Spiers (Leader of Reigate and Banstead Borough Council) and Cllr Dr Lynne Hack (Executive Member for Housing) visited the Islanders at their accommodation in Horley on 29 October.
If repaying this debt is left to a very small proportion of the British population around the Boroughs of Reigate and Crawley and their council taxpayers, then the goodwill these people deserve may rapidly dissipate locally.
www.peterainsworth.com /news/2004/291004diegogarcians.htm   (358 words)

  
 Hurry up with that Iraq exit strategy - Opinion - www.smh.com.au
Even those who supported the invasion must see that the occupation is wrong, writes Crispin Blunt.
I voted for the intervention in Iraq, not because of the threat from weapons of mass destruction, but because of the failure to ensure the removal of Saddam Hussein in 1991.
Crispin Blunt is a British Conservative Member of Parliament.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/20/1085028465994.html   (700 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > Breaking News > UK Lords & Commons tour India to sponsor cricket programmes
The touring party is drawn from both Houses, both major parties, includes current and former Government members, Opposition spokesman and journalists associated with politics and one or two younger researchers.
KPMG is the principal sponsor to the event, as part of its social and community development programme.
Blunt said, "In the words of the British High Commission in Delhi, 'Cricket is of course the ultimate diplomatic weapon here and ties our two countries in a way nothing else can'.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/dec/dec244.htm   (663 words)

  
 All Headline News - Two British MP's Visit Lebanon - December 21, 2006
The two MP's were adamant that the values to which their country is attached have no link with the actions of the present British government.
In a surprise move, Brooks Newmark and Crispin Blunt of the Conservative Party, met with President Emile Lahoud and Hezbollah officials, despite criticism from London.
It is not acceptable to call for democracy in Palestine and then shun and ostracize a government formed by the [Hamas] party which subsequently wins a genuinely democratic election," Blunt added.
www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7005160244   (296 words)

  
 ePolitix.com - Crispin Blunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hello, I am Crispin Blunt, the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Reigate.
'Crispin Blunt, acting as the teller for the Opposition, announces to the House of Commons the result of the vote on an amendment to the Terrorism Bill.
The Government was defeated by 31 votes when a majority of MPs voted against the government's proposals to allow detention for 90 days without charge.
www.epolitix.com /EN/MPWebsites/Crispin+Blunt   (173 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Iain Duncan Smith's hopes of reviving the Conservative Party after yesterday's local elections suffered a serious setback last night when one of his frontbenchers resigned and called for a vote of confidence in the leader.
Crispin Blunt, shadow minister for trade, energy and science, said Mr Duncan Smith was a "fatal handicap" to the party and needed to be replaced if it was to have any chance of regaining power.
In a statement released after polling stations closed for the local, Scottish and Welsh elections, Mr Blunt said a new leader had to be found as soon as possible.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/02/ntory02.xml   (475 words)

  
 Sandline International - Links headings
The unstable situation in Sierra Leone and the extent of the UK's role in resolving the current conflict was debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 May. During the course of the debate the issue of how private military companies could have made a difference was raised by Crispin Blunt (Conservative).
Despite the evident reluctance on behalf of the UK government to seriously consider the PMC option, Sandline remains keen to enter into an open and frank exchange of views on the viability of contracting with the private sector in circumstances where peace needs to be established.
Blunt: Our responsibility in the Sierra Leonean saga goes back to the arms to Africa affair.
www.sandline.com /comment/list/comment27.html   (891 words)

  
 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the England innings, Henry Bellingham and Blunt went after the leather upfront, leaving Chauhan’s fielders huffing and puffing.
Then Blunt fell to a slow ball, so slow that my grandmother could have hit it for a six (with due apologies to Geoff Boycott).
Later in the bar, he remarked that he was concentrating less on the ball and more on putting a shot through the roof of the dining marquee.
www.the-week.com /25sep25/currentevents_article3.htm   (371 words)

  
 toryleadership: Crispin Blunt MP: The Case for Malcolm Rifkind
Blunt's reference to 'One Nation liberalism' is particularly baffling.
Mr Blunt chose to step down as Opposition Spokesman and called on IDS to resign after the polls had closed during the 2003 local elections.He did this at around 10pm live on TV, on election night.
Mr Blunt is also strongly unsympathetic towards the state of Israel and has identified himself with the more hardline Palestinian cause.
conservativehome.blogs.com /toryleadership/2005/07/the_case_for_ma.html   (5784 words)

  
 Israeli troops fire at British MP's in Gaza : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The cross-party group, including MPs Huw Irranca-Davies and Crispin Blunt, was on a visit to Rafah in Gaza, where UK student Tom Hurndall was killed.
In an earlier statement Lady Northover, the Liberal Democrats' international development spokesperson in the Lords, said the incident had shown her "the indiscriminate violence faced by Palestinians on a daily basis".
She and Mr Blunt said the action may have been an attempt to stop the group seeing the effect of Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinian housing in Gaza.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2004/06/1697418.php   (596 words)

  
 The Hindu : Sport / Cricket : Easy win for CCI
The team is led by the recently appointed Opposition whip, Crispin Blunt.
Despite the loss the visiting team was looking forward to its match against Bombay Gymkhana on Wednesday and the return match against CCI on Thursday.
At a press conference on Monday, Crispin Blunt said the team would be playing the Indian Parliamentarians in New Delhi on January 6.
www.hindu.com /2004/12/29/stories/2004122904791600.htm   (239 words)

  
 conservative
It was chaired by Crispin Blunt MP, Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council, who had recently returned from a visit to Syria with other Conservative MPs.
In his address to the packed room, the Ambassador described "American pressures" as placing obstacles in the way of European assistance to his country in human and financial resources and said that this was slowing the pace of reform.
The session was concluded by Crispin Blunt MP who remarked that the major impression he had gained from his recent visits to the Middle East had been the "very, very significant damage" that had been done to Britain's reputation in the region by its recent standpoints.
nc3-0024.web.uk.netscalibur.com /smc/conservative.htm   (352 words)

  
 British Lawmaker: Israeli soldiers shot at at Group [Archive] - Military Photos
Crispin Blunt resigned his commission in 1990 and after a stint in business became special adviser to Malcolm Rifkind, who was then Secretary of State for Defence.
Being an ex-British army officer does not make him a font of military knowledge, the ones I have come across were in the most cases next to useless generally only looking to enhance their careers or wondering where their next mess dinner was coming from.
06-21-2004, 10:48 AM Crispin Blunt was commissioned as an Army Officer into the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and served until 1990.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-15007.html   (1124 words)

  
 Letter from Crispin Blunt MP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Letter from Crispin Blunt MP Crispin Blunt MP for Reigate replied immediately and wrote to Margaret Becket at DEFRA.
Lord Witty, Minister for food, farming and waterways, replied to Mr Blunt from DEFRA and sent copies to the FSA and the FSCS.
If the FSA succeeds in destroying BDI we will have an excellent case for demanding that DEFRA pick up the bill for compensating beekeepers when diseased colonies are destroyed, as with foot and mouth disease.
www.members.aol.com /KingstonBees2/bdiappeal1.html   (150 words)

  
 RTP Footnote
On 21 March 2003, Newsnight posed questions regarding the role of the "Stop the War" coalition now that Gulf War Two had started.
Loosely representing the establishment, one Crispin Blunt MP (Conservative), spoke thus of the Coalition's efforts:
What the Stop the War Coalition has done is put 2 Million people on the streets [referring to the biggest ever public demonstration in British History, which took place on Feb 15 2003] in a perfectly proper demonstration which influenced opinion in advance of the parliamentary vote on this.
www.fullmoon.nu /footnotes/crispinblunt.htm   (763 words)

  
 Crispin Blunt MP, Reigate (TheyWorkForYou.com)
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 Tory infighting | Samizdata.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Crispin Blunt MP, a frontbench Conservative spokesman on trade, has resigned and called for Iain Duncan-Smith to be deposed as party leader.
I bet that Blunt has not realised that his name goes rather well with another word of a swearing variety.
I know, I know, St. Crispin figured in Shakespeare's Henry V big speech, but still...
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/003418.html   (620 words)

  
 peterainsworth.com
Peter Ainsworth and Crispin Blunt condemn discrimination against the South East and call for an end to the Government's monopoly on healthcare provision.
Since the establishment of the Surrey and Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust in 1998 Peter Ainsworth MP (East Surrey) and Crispin Blunt MP (Reigate) have long made clear the scale of the problems besetting the provision of local healthcare.
The Trust has been dogged by disgraceful political interference; successive chief executives and boards have not been able to meet government targets for treatment and performance; the allocation of funds has been inadequate.
www.peterainsworth.com /news/2004/020905eastsurreyhospital.htm   (760 words)

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