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	jim sillars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sillars was born in 1937 in Ayrshire, Scotland.
		In 1988 Sillars was chosen as the SNP candidate for the Govan by-election.
		Sillars is viewed as belonging to the SNP Fundamentalist camp.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Jim_Sillars.html (639 words)

	Scottish National Party: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Scottish National Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sillars had been a Labour Party MP in the 1970s but, dissatisfied with the Labour Government's policy on Scottish devolution and their socio-economic programme, had in 1976 formed the SLP.
		Sillars began to grow in influence in the party and the SNP was firmly placing itself on the left of centre.
		Sillars however argued that the Scottish people had to be given reasons as to why independence would benefit their lives and that this should involve a fully developed socio-economic programme.
	www.encyclopedian.com /sn/SNP.html (2136 words)

	Scottish Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The formation of the SLP was led by Jim Sillars, then Labour MP for South Ayrshire, John Robertson, then Labour MP for Paisley and Alex Neil, the UK Labour Party's senior Scottish researcher.
		Sillars came close to retaining his seat, but this was clearly a personal vote built up over the years he had already served as a MP, as the other two candidates polled very poorly indeed.
		Sillars has claimed though that the SLP did at least provide a forerunner to the SNP's later dialogue with the left.
	bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Scottish_Labour_Party (423 words)

	Jim Sillars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The formation of the SLP was inspired primarily by the failure of the then Labour Government to secure a Scottish Assembly.
		However only Sillars came remotely close to winning and it was this failure to secure a meaningful share of the vote that prompted the decision to disband.
		Govan was a Labour seat (although Sillars' wife had won it for the SNP in a by-election previously, in 1973), but Sillars proved an inspired choice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Sillars (605 words)

	Overview of James (Jim) Sillars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sillars was a fireman, who rose through his union to gain nomination as a Labour candidate.
		Sillars lost his seat in the 1979 general election and disbanded his new party to join the Scottish National Party, becoming the eloquent spokesman for its left-wing.
		Sillars courted controversy in articles in support of the 'Keep the Clause' debate, relating to the discussion of alternative sexual attitudes in schools (2000).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst876.html (160 words)

	Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sillars appeared to have saved the day for Labour and in the 1970 general election, Winnie Ewing was defeated in Hamilton, and although the SNP won the Western Isles from Labour they did not make any major breakthrough.
		Jim Sillars vote dipped to 56.2 % but he increased his majority to 14,478 this time over the SNP's A. Mullin who took 19.8 %, with the Tories in third place with 18.6 %.
		Jim Sillars had became a Labour hero and was soon talked about as a possible Prime Minister of an independent Scotland.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/s02.html (1651 words)

	SNP fundamentalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The argument goes that if the SNP is unprepared to argue for its central policy then they are unlikely ever to persuade the public of its worthiness.
		Many fundamentalists (including Jim Sillars) were extremely wary of supporting the establishment of the devolved Scottish Parliament as they believed it has been designed to limit the aspirations of those who desire independence.
		Sillars used his column in the Sun Newspaper to make clear such concerns and accordingly advised people to abstain from voting in the 1997 referendum which endorsed the principle of devolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SNP_Fundamentalist (202 words)

	The Scotsman - Opinion - Letters - SNP wrangle is about personalities, not policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Scotland in Europe" policy, adopted many years ago by the SNP, interestingly on the initiative of Jim Sillars, was intended to woo the voters by suggesting that the disruption caused by independence would be minimal, since we would remain part of the European community.
		Jim Sillars (Letters, 19 September) seems to suggest that only an "absolute majority" in a Scottish election would give the SNP a "clear mandate" to negotiate the terms of independence with Westminster.
		Jim Sillars (Letters, 15 September) wrongly suggests that the Scottish Parliament has no competence to hold a referendum on Scotland’s constitutional future, while at the same time asserting that an SNP ma-jority administration would be given a no-hassle, no-quibble guarantee on independence from the Westminster establishment on taking office.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /letters.cfm?id=1058592003 (794 words)

	Nationalism, Scotland and Parties Up in Arms
		Jim Sillars notes that since Scotland's political elite were reduced to a mere lobby in the Union, Scotland has been "politically unsophisticated," making it simpler to engage in the system than to try and control it.
		Jim Sillars bemoans that "we were the only nation ever to discover oil and get poorer," (105) which may not be necessarily true.
		The new SNP MP for Govan, Jim Sillars, was keen to bridge the gap between his new party and his former allies.
	www.geocities.com /hfien/scots/490nationalism.html (5517 words)

	Jim Sasser - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jim Sasser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sasser - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jim Sasser.
		James Ralph "Jim" Sasser (born September 30, 1936) is a former member of the United States Senate, a Democrat who represented Tennessee from 1977 to 1995.
		Shortly after the siege of the embassy was lifted, Ambassador Sasser retired (he was slated to do so before the siege, so his retirement was not a direct result) and returned to the United States, where he presently divides his time between Tennessee and Washington, D.C. as a consultant.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Jim-Sasser.html (583 words)

	Govan article - Govan Glasgow River Clyde Partick Labour Party Scottish National Party - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unsurprisingly, given this background, the area has traditionally been a hotbed of support for the Labour Party, but the Scottish National Party (SNP) is strong there as well and in 1973 won a by-election with Margo MacDonald as their candidate.
		The SNP repeated this with another by-election victory in 1988, this time with Jim Sillars as candidate.
		Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of Manchester United, and the Trade unionist, Jimmy Reid were both born and brought up in the area.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Govan (203 words)

	Alex Salmond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was at this time still viewed as being firmly on the left of the party and had become a key ally of Jim Sillars, who joined him in the British House of Commons when he won a by-election for the seat of Glasgow Govan in 1988.
		This comment caused the political friendship between Salmond and Sillars to be terminated, and Sillars became a vocal critic of Salmond's style of leadership.
		The SNP managed to increase its number of MPs from four to six in the 1997 General Election, which saw the return of the first Labour Government in the United Kingdom for 18 years.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alex_Salmond (1166 words)

	Scottish National Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The period of internal factionalism inside the SNP came to an end at the 1982 SNP Conference where internal factions were banned.
		The 79 Group, despite their proscription were bolstered by the collapse of the Scottish Labour Party (SLP) in the aftermath of the '79 election.
		Salmond's victory surprised many as Ewing had the backing of most of the party leadership, including Sillars and the then party secretary and current party leader John Swinney, although he would go on to become a key ally of Salmonds.
	www.theezine.net /s/scottish-national-party.html (4405 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Scotland \| Immigration policy 'laughable'
		Jim Sillars said a demand by SNP leader John Swinney for the Scottish Parliament to be in charge of immigration in Scotland was a "foolish idea".
		Mr Sillars accused Mr Swinney of adopting a "ludicrous" position over his demands for immigration policy to be transferred to Holyrood.
		Mr Sillar's' comments came as a newspaper poll claimed that a majority of people in Scotland back the government's controversial policy of locking up failed asylum seekers and their children.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3107352.stm (541 words)

	Scotsman.com Election - Scottish National Party - Salmond v Sillars for the soul of the SNP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sillars (Letters, 9 September) asks how an SNP government could secure a vote for an independence referendum without an absolute majority in the Scottish Parliament.
		Jim Sillars’ objections (Letters, 16 September) to SNP independence policy grow increasingly obscure.
		Jim Sillars’ strategy changes with every re-emergence from his periodic political slumber.
	election.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=324&id=1064382003 (3625 words)

	Scottish Independence Web Server
		Jim Sillars was a left wing labour MP who broke away from London led labour to set up the independent Labour party, and hold true to the non-Tory ideals now so fervently prized by Tony Blair and his Nu-Tories.
		In 1992 Jim Sillars lost his election bid in Glasgows Govan (shipyard) seat and said that the Scots there were merely "90 minute patriots"
		All these people need do to prove Jim Sillars wrong is put a cross next to their SNP candidates next May.
	www.forscotland.com /tracklab/noindex-truthurts000722URL.html (141 words)

	FreeScot Review : News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sillars, who has no legal qualifications, represented the three SNP Councillors brought before the Standards Commission on a complaint from a Labour Councillor.
		Three SNP Councillors, Jim Mitchell, David Mylet and Derek MacKay, all of Renfrewshire Council, were hauled before the Commission on a complaint from a Labour Councillor, and subsequently suspended for periods ranging from four to six weeks.
		Jim Sillars is a former SNP MP for Glasgow Govan and previously served as the SNP Deputy Leader.
	www.freescot.com /news_page.php?safe=1&story=15 (1098 words)

	[A-List] Scotland: SNP disintegration? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sillars must rank as Scotland's answer to "Lord" David Owen, who split everything he ever came into contact with, including Bosnia, and all in the interests of the Atlanticist fraction of UK capital.
		Sillars, meanwhile, weakened the Labour Party's parliamentary majority in 1976 at a time when Callaghan's government was under serious attack from the City-military-intelligence nexus in partnership with the US.
		The debate is quite widespread, but will hold until after the European elections." MacDonald's husband, Jim Sillars, was a nationalist in the latter camp, leading an unsuccessful breakaway from the Labour Party in 1976.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-May/030393.html (816 words)

	Outsiders In Holyrood - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The odd effect is produced when three of devolution’s foes – Labour’s Brian Wilson, the SNP’s Jim Sillars and Brian Monteith of the Tories – are taken by the Sunday Herald round the new Holyrood building; the parliament they never wanted to exist.
		Wilson, Sillars and Monteith are conviction politicians who prefer the gladiatorial seating arrangements in the House of Commons.
		Sillars could easily deliver a similar speech next week – with equal ferocity – on why devolution was the best show in town.
	www.sundayherald.com /44666 (1494 words)

	sillars - Around2.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sillars, who was both an MP and deputy leader of the Nationalists in the...
		Jim Sillars, who was both an MP and deputy leader of...
		Jim Sillars said a demand by SNP leader John Swinney for the Scottish Parliament to be in charge...
	www.around2.co.uk /item/i=Sillars%A0 (1481 words)

	Scottish Labour Party - TheBestLinks.com - Labour Party (UK), Social Democratic Party (UK), Scottish National Party, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Scottish Labour Party (SLP) was formed in January 1976 as a breakaway from the UK Labour Party, by Labour members disaffected with the then Labour Government's failure to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly as well as with its social and economic agenda.
		The formation of the SLP was led by Jim Sillars, then a Labour MP for South Ayrshire, Alex Neil, the UK Labour Party's senior Scottish researcher, and John Robertson, also a MP at the time.
		Almost immediately the SLP became the focus for entryism from the International Marxist Group (IMG) and at the party's first congress in October 1976 the IMG were expelled.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Scottish_Labour_Party.html (407 words)

	[A-List] UK sub-imperialism: a Scottish view (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Few campaigners come as dirty and low as Jim Sillars, whose lack of scruple has been documented here in the past.
		US military forces faced with suicide bombing, nervous in the face of a civilian population which has not responded with joy to being bombed and blasted, are heading for an urban Vietnam, which will brutalise them just as their allies, the Israeli Defence Force, have been brutalised in Palestine.
		Jim Sillars is a former assistant secretary-general to The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, and former Scottish Nationalist MP for Glasgow Govan.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-April/024896.html (647 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Unlikely alliance in Euro debate
		Mr Sillars also wants to keep the pound and said it would be "absolute lunacy" for Britain to surrender its control over sterling.
		The launch of the campaign could be embarrassing for the pro-European SNP because Mr Sillars was the architect of its independence in Europe policy.
		He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: "Jim and I both agree that if you try to set a single interest rate for the whole of Europe, and that single interest rate is decided in Frankfurt, it is going to be determined on the basis of what is needed in France and Germany.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/820034.stm (567 words)

	Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This majority was due to a collapse in the Tory vote and despite the addition of the rock solid Conservative area of Alloway, they finished a mere 146 votes ahead of the SNP's Christine Hutchison.
		As could be expected from someone chosen by the Labour party to fight against Jim Sillars, George Foulkes is a dyed in the wool unionist and has never showed much interest in serving in a Scottish parliament.
		Fighting one of Labour's safest seats in the Scottish election was Cathy Jamieson, a member of the national executive and a member of the Grassroots Alliance group.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextwe/s02.html (1127 words)

	Jim Sillars - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jim Sillars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Sillars - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jim Sillars.
		The list of the Jim Sillars Authors is
		The orginal Jim Sillars article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Jim-Sillars.html (652 words)

	Alex Salmond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was at this time still viewed as being firmly on the left of the party and had become a key ally of Jim Sillars, who joined him in the British House of Commons when he won the Govan by-election in 1988.
		His only opponent was Margaret Ewing, who Sillars decided to support.
		This comment caused the political friendship between Salmond and Sillars to become terminated, and Sillars became a vocal critic of Salmond's style of leadership.
	www.theezine.net /a/alex-salmond.html (509 words)

	Independent, The (London): Scotland: The unanswered questions: The Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The co-founder of the breakaway Scottish Labour Party, Sillars was still the elected MP for South Ayrshire, from where he pricked the sides of the official Labour Party with his nationalist rhetoric.
		And in the subsequent General Election, the Scottish Labour Party rebels lost both their MPs, including Sillars, and collapsed; the SNP lost nine of their 11, but later gained Sillars as a member; and the Labour government was dispatched to 18 years of opposition.
		The Nationalists serenely disregard their own awkward squaddie, as Jim Sillars rages, logically but vainly, against the iniquities of demanding a mandate for pre-legislation proposals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970910/ai_n14132084 (985 words)

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