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	Frank Field (UK politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Field unsuccessfully contested Buckinghamshire South at the 1966 General Election where he was defeated soundly by the sitting Conservative veteran MP Ronald Bell.
		In Parliament Field was made a member of the Opposition frontbench by Michael Foot as a spokesman on education in 1980 but was dropped a year later.
		Frank Field became a member of the Privy Council in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Field_(UK_politician) (1381 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| Ex-minister's immigration warning
		UK politicians are "living on borrowed time" on immigration, a former Labour minister has said.
		At the time the UK government predicted 13,000 workers a year from the new EU member countries would move to the UK for work, but the actual figure of registered workers was about 329,000 in 18 months.
		Mr Field, a former welfare minister, questioned whether this level of immigration was sustainable without "dramatic" changes to the character of the country and hitting poorer areas, which have to absorb migrants.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/5119892.stm?ls (1490 words)

	Eddie Milne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Milne (October 18, 1915 – March 23, 1983) was a British Labour politician.
		He succeeded Alfred Robens as MP for Blyth, later known as Blyth Valley, in a 1960 by-election.
		It should be noted that this stand against corruption in public life inspired a then young Frank Field (UK politician), later elected MP for Birkenhead, (1979 - present).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Milne (445 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Frank Field
		Frank Field, the priest-like Labour MP for Birkenhead, is treated with respect by his Tory opponents, if not always by his own party.
		Mr Field is also a relentless egalitarian, a crusader for the poor to better themselves.
		They were not to be realised partly, as Field suggested in his Commons resignation statement a year later, because of a civil war which broke out between his department and Gordon Brown's Treasury over his plans for compulsory private pensions.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,-1704,00.html (584 words)

	Politics \| Brown betrayed me - Field
		The government's former social security guru, Frank Field, yesterday took the shine off Tony Blair's ministerial reshuffle by publicly protesting that he had been forced to resign because the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, had stifled his efforts to mastermind radical welfare reform.
		In a resignation statement to the Commons which was tinged with personal hurt and political self-justification, Mr Field's barely coded attack stressed that driving through the welfare change that Mr Blair promised before his election required support from the whole of the Cabinet 'and especially the Chancellor'.
		Mr Field angered ministerial loyalists who insist that the highly expert MP is blaming others for his own failure to translate his theoretical vision into practical and affordable solutions.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4158899-107890,00.html (684 words)

	The Observer \| 7 Days \| Frank Field: Still thinking the unthinkable
		The speaker was veteran Labour MP Frank Field, the man once charged by Tony Blair to plan reform of the welfare state by 'thinking the unthinkable' - and it looked like he was thinking the unthinkable all over again.
		'He's not a tribal politician, which makes him attractive to both the media and the country.' He is described as a 'maverick' or as the 'cat who walks by his own'.
		'Frank Field thought he really had been asked to go away and think the unthinkable,' says Martin Sixsmith, who was Harriet Harman's director of communications.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /7days/story/0,,1810702,00.html (1715 words)

	When Children Pay: Foreword
		The USA was a much younger population and a generation behind the UK in contemplating the 'burden' of old age.
		By this time, the cross-party pretence, among British politicians, that they would somehow restore assistance to its 'safety net' role had been exposed by civil servants for what it was.
		Maybe so - although Frank Field, the former CPAG Director who was to become the aforesaid Minister for Welfare Reform, has surely made a considerable contribution, starting in Opposition, to this terminological waywardness.
	www.cpag.org.uk /publications/childrenpay_foreword.htm (4280 words)

	Social security design in the UK: What is optimal?
		In the recent UK government Green Paper on pensions (Simplicity, Security and Choice: Work and Saving for Retirement Department for Work and Pensions, 2002), the policy on pensions is summarised thus: 'The Government's strategy is to focus resources on those pensioners who need them most'.
		Since 1997, the Chancellor has therefore moved the system of basic pension benefits in the UK from one based on universality (the contributory requirements were not very stringent, at least since 1978) to one increasingly based on means testing.
		1In the late 1990s, the UK Labour Party politician Frank Field resigned from his role as the architect of the government's pension reform strategy largely because he saw the system being steered by his government towards greater use of means testing.
	mpelembe.mappibiz.com /archives_05/social_security.html (10155 words)

	English Democrats Party:: News blog
		Politicians are often regarded, (as perhaps they always have been), as basically in it for themselves.
		If it is difficult for politics and politicians to make their mark in a world where people are bombarded with messages from all sides, it is all the more imperative that Parliament should not be distant and aloof, and appear to demand a particular kind of deference from its visitors.
		The bigger danger to the future of the UK is if the issue is not addressed, and the sense of injustice engendered by the status quo is allowed to fester.
	englishdemocrats.org.uk /news.php (15478 words)

	Cold War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some particularly revolutionary advances were made in the field of nuclear weapons and rocketry, which led to the space race (many of the rockets used to launch humans and satellites into orbit were originally based on military designs formulated during this period).
		Other fields in which arms races occurred include: jet fighters, bombers, chemical weapons, biological weapons, anti-aircraft warfare, surface-to-surface missiles (including SRBMs and cruise missiles), inter-continental ballistic missiles (as well as IRBMs), anti-ballistic missiles, anti-tank weapons, submarines and anti-submarine warfare, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, electronic intelligence, signals intelligence, reconnaissance aircraft and spy satellites.
		The term was used hypothetically by George Orwell in 1945, though not in reference to the struggle between the USA and the Soviet Union, which had not yet been initiated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cold_War (4595 words)

	WF: FRANK FIELD
		T he Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, Frank Field, is widely respected for his integrity, courage and Christian convictions, and for the vision and pragmatism which he brings to his central area of concern: the struggle against poverty.
		The British Labour party is considering a radical plan drafted by Frank Field MP to take the genetic fingerprint of every British citizen for use on a national ID card.
		And policies for identifying and tackling social exclusion were at the centre of debate.
	www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/wf_frank.htm (1021 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Your views on Britain adopting the European Constitution
		The people should be given a simple decision either to accept the EU lock, stock and barrel and surrender 900 years of self-governance for a future ruled by an unelected, unaccountable and unsackable bureaucracy so incompetent and corrupt that it is likely to implode within the next eight to ten years.
		Blair is a typical Labour politician who behaves like a dog in a manger, determined to have it all his way, regardless of the natural will of the electorate.
		This is very similar to what the UK signed up to and then ratified in a referendum in the 1970s and is the obvious way to go.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/30/npoll130.xml (4752 words)

	BBC News \| UK Politics \| Three views on Labour's annual report
		As Tony Blair delivers his second annual report detailing the successes of his government, the BBC asked a critic from within his party, an opposition politician and a journalist to give their assessments of New Labour at the half-way stage between elections.
		Labour MP Frank Field served as the minister for welfare reform during the first year of the Labour government.
		Mr Field believes that the measures taken on welfare reform so far have mocked the prime minister's declared intention the "something for nothing society".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/403876.stm (538 words)

	Shackleton news
		Thanks to the tireless efforts and vision of Chairman Frank Taaffe and his committee, the Autumn School is now rightly regarded as the pre-eminent Polar Forum in Ireland.
		Using extensive archive footage shot by Hurley, as well as many of his photographs, this one hour documentary, to be shown on BBC 4 on Monday 23 August 2004 (9pm-10pm, repeated at 12.10am-1.10am; 3.05am-4.05am), traces the photographer's life and work.
		Frank Hurley was born in Australia in 1885 and ran away from home when he was 14 to work on the docks.
	www.jamescairdsociety.com /latest.php (8316 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| News crumb \| The Guardian profile: Ruth Kelly
		Calculating is her metier, whether totting up the figures in Norman Lamont's 1992 budget for her Guardian scoop that he had broken the Treasury's golden rules of spending, or balancing the demands of family and her career.
		But Mr Laws believes she will show up "shouting, screaming, aggressive politicians", and colleagues add that her experience of working closely with the chancellor proves she is able to cope with political pressure.
		She is one of the few frontline Labour politicians who has managed to balance the pressures of the Blair and Brown camps, working successfully with the chancellor and the Blairite Mr Milburn.
	education.guardian.co.uk /schools/story/0,5500,1375850,00.html (1600 words)

	For a Change Magazine: The Struggle to be Decent
		British politician Frank Field talks to Mary Lean about gun control, sleaze and the moral force of the welfare state.
		The Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, Frank Field, is widely respected for his integrity, courage and Christian convictions, and for the vision and pragmatism which he brings to his central area of concern: the struggle against poverty.
		He told a BBC interviewer recently that his mother was a strong and positive influence, 'purely through her gentleness'; while his father, a brutal man who disliked his children, taught him how to deal with bullies.
	www.forachange.co.uk /index.php?stoid=29 (1585 words)

	Eric Heffer, book review by Dick Barry
		But for a principled politician, and a well-read one at that, he could be touchingly naive on occasions about political issues.
		Heffer deplores the sectarian divisions of workers and the use of the Orange card by the Tories in Northern Ireland under Carson and F. Smith which he describes as "a further example of the divide and rule policy of the British".
		So blind is Heffer's rage, however, against the 'Orange Tories', that he fails to appreciate the heavy responsibility which the Labour Party bears for the sectarian divisions which continue to this day in the six counties.
	members.aol.com /BevinSoc/Heffer_review.htm (808 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| How to beat the new slum landlords
		No government has acted with such determination as this one to eradicate child poverty and Stephen Byers, transport and local government secretary, is the first senior politician for a generation to recognise the central importance of housing in entrenching poverty.
		New figures show that 1.6m children are living in substandard accommodation and last week the minister began to set out proposals for tackling those slum landlords who are leeching off the public purse.
		• Frank Field is MP for Birkenhead and former minister for welfare reform
	society.guardian.co.uk /childreninpoverty/comment/0,8146,533314,00.html (809 words)

	The Royal Institution of Great Britain
		Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, electro-magnetic rotations, the magneto-optical effect, diamagnetism, field theory and much else besides, was born in Newington Butts (the area of London now known as the Elephant and Castle) on 22 September 1791.
		Faraday was part of this effort and on 3 and 4 September 1821 in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution, he undertook a set of experiments which culminated in his discovery of electro-magnetic rotation - the principle behind the electric motor.
		This lecture laid the basis for the field theory of electro-magnetism which Faraday developed in the ensuing years.
	www.rigb.org /rimain/heritage/faradaypage.jsp (2536 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		One of the casualties of that policy was Harriet Harman, the social security secretary, who had to defend a cut in single parents' benefit to the fury of the party.
		She went, taking with her the social security minister Frank Field, who bitterly criticised the Treasury for refusing to back his plans for welfare reform, suggesting to Blair as he went that his department might as well be folded into the Treasury.
		When, four years ago, I had spent a similar day with Brown while he was campaigning before the 1997 election, he had worried that the public was hostile to tax because it did not trust politicians to spend the proceeds properly.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT31A4B27NC.html (2051 words)

	Clive Davis: UK politics
		To draw moral equivalence between a woman who has only ever used words to attack what she views as a repressive and outmoded ideology, and a man who set out to kill and maim as many innocent people as he could, is frankly a disgrace.
		You can argue about how valid some of the UK complaints really are (we all know that life isn't a dinner party) but the overall tone of the piece definitely seems right to me.
		The UK press corps seems to be in a particularly cynical frame of mind.
	clivedavis.blogs.com /clive/uk_politics (9906 words)

	American Renaissance News: Ex-minister’s Immigration Warning
		When the EU expanded to 25 members in 2004 the UK, Ireland and Sweden were the only countries which decided not to restrict people from the new member countries—notably Poland—taking jobs.
		The UK Independence Party said it backed the government’s new quota system for migrant workers but argued it should apply equally to all—including people inside the EU.
		The UK is now in a complete and benign state of Liberal Paralysis….the work of independant experts in demography, political commentators, empirical academic research backed up by statistics, economists, et al.
	www.amren.com /mtnews/archives/2006/06/exministers_imm.php (3047 words)

	UK Political Blog Feeds
		I heard Frank Field on the BBC News the night before last arguing that it was perfectly reasonable for Tony Blair to get support for the recent Education Bill from wherever it was forthcoming, including from the Conservatives.
		Frank Field is usually seen as being in favour of radical reform.
		There is a disturbing trend for increased credentialism in the UK and for the political elite to fill up with public school, oxbridge types.
	www.voidstar.com /ukpoliblog/index.php/fid/375 (11232 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| News crumb \| That'll teach her...
		What people like Frank Field tell me, ever such a lot of people, is that they go through a big depression when they come out of government - they can't remember how the Tube works, and they think what's the point of anything - which I haven't had I'm happy to say.
		Television is the usual fallback for discarded politicians but she seems to have blown that with A Week in the Real World and her comments about it.
		Of course it was clever of her to give this interview as a pre-emptive strike - to rubbish the programme before it appears.
	education.guardian.co.uk /schools/story/0,5500,1153335,00.html (1924 words)

	Poverty, Disability, and Development Aid in Economically Weaker Countries
		To tackle the present field adequately would require significant training and experience in the disability field, in economics and governance, in international aid and development, in research methodology, and in the daily living situations of urban and rural people in developing and transitional countries in two or more continents.
		At best, people with some expertise in two or three fields have tried to make some intelligent guesses in the other fields, and have pooled their resources to cover more ground.
		Harriss-White, an experienced agricultural economist, took part in several months of field work for a detailed study of the economics and daily realities of life with impairment and disability among the populations of several South Indian villages, producing in 1996 a long report with Susan Erb, which circulated for review comments.
	www.disabilityworld.org /12-01_06/povertydisability.shtml (11396 words)

	Human Rights
		The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.
		Our politicians are either as blind, as the population that is starved of real education, or they are part and parcel of the creeping dictatorship through the back door imported and through illicit practices by and via the courts illegally adopted and unconstitutionally endorsed."
		They are raping them both daily, while our media and politicians are promoting assertions that our pseudo-democracies are founded and rest on law and order.
	www.uk-human-rights.org (5113 words)

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