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	Kenneth Clarke Summary
		In the post-Thatcher era of "grey" politicians, Clarke was manifestly not boring.
		John Major assuaged Clarke's ire and convinced him to continue as Chancellor, and the critics had a field day until later that year when none could deny that the British economy had taken a turn for the better despite the Chancellor's idiosyncratic policies.
		In his campaign speeches Clarke attacked Tony Blair's "catastrophic error" in involving the UK in the war with Iraq [4] and accused the government of being "autocratic".
	www.bookrags.com /Kenneth_Clarke (3192 words)

	John Patten, Baron Patten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Haggitt Charles Patten, Baron Patten, PC, was a Conservative party Member of Parliament of Oxford West and Abingdon in the United Kingdom.
		He stood down at the 1997 general election, and thus avoided losing his seat, which was won by the Liberal Democrat Evan Harris.
		Patten's record as education secretary has been described as "appalling" by David Hart, who recently retired after 26 years as general secretary of the NAHT, Britain's largest headteachers' union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Patten (162 words)

	Marxist.org.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		So long as the Prime Minister is able to shelter his or her powers behind the public bulwark of the monarchy and mislead voters as to the concentration of power in the hands of the executive, politicians will pose one very powerful obstacle at the highest level to the abolition of monarchy.
		Politicians will, then, do all they can to avoid stumbling into the minefield of using reserve royal powers openly, lest they provoke a backlash directed at them rather than at the hapless monarch who has to sign the decrees.
		All these manouevres are likely to enjoy the support of politicians, who will be able to claim credit for “modernising” the monarchy while ensuring that its important powers remain in their hands.
	www.marxist.org.uk /htm_docs/pam4.htm (3642 words)

	Chris Patten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Roman Catholic of at least partial Irish extraction, Patten was educated at St. Benedict's School in Ealing, and at Balliol College, Oxford.
		Patten was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1992, serving as Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1986 to 1989.
		Lord Patten of Barnes is the Chancellor for the Universities of Newcastle and Oxford and a patron of the Tory Reform Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Patten (808 words)

	British Politics - John Major - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Major said, "She has been an outstanding Speaker who has enhanced the reputation of the House of Commons throughout the world, I am very sorry she is retiring".
		John Major refused to put his name forward as the Conservative candidate, saying that he had withdrawn from such high profile public positions, despite increasing support from members of the Conservative Party who felt Major would be a popular candidate.
		John Major revealed that he did not want much want the job of Foreign Secretary, and was disappointed to have to leave the Treasury so quickly, as it the job which he had always coveted most.
	www.johnmajor.co.uk /activity.shtml (3336 words)

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		John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover
		John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
		John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
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	A disturbing Patten emerges / Features / Home - Morning Star
		John Patten is, in fact, a different member of the same generation of Tories, but left a much smaller mark.
		Patten then started, but was unable to finish, a series of confrontations with teaching unions, before seeming to suffer some kind of collapse, widely rumoured to be a nervous breakdown.
		Patten wanted to send people with a "business background" straight into the classroom to learn on the job without the influence of the ungodly radicals that he thought infested the colleges.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/ex/layout/set/print/features/a_disturbing_patten_emerges (1096 words)

	Guardian \| Days of the living dead
		John Biffen read about his semi-detached status, Frank Field learnt of the impracticality of his reforms and John Patten could be fully seized of his unsuitability months before the axe fell.
		Jim Callaghan told Barbara Castle that she was too old: "I must reduce the average age of cabinet and I want to ask for your portfolio." John Patten was ushered in and out by a Downing street back door to avoid the cameras.
		Political office is to the politician what football is to the football manager - much more important than a mere question of life and death.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4078496-103563,00.html (737 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: East and West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Patten is rightly critical of the so-called Asian values, but he is not vindictive.
		When I lived in Hong Kong in the Nineties, Patten's was practically the only voice talking back to Peking, reminding the mainland regime that it was its responsibility now to reassure all the millions of Chinese refugees who had fled into Hong Kong that this time the average Chinese would be treated fairly.
		One thing Patten could have played up more was the high number of skilled and talented Chinese who escaped from China proper who then emigrate further to new lives and careers in the First World, where their talents could flourish.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330373080 (913 words)

	Maastricht Rebels Online Research :: Information about Maastricht Rebels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Major threatened the rebels with a general election, which would have meant annihilation for the Conservative Party.
		The Labour Party (UK) was bringing heart attack victims and MPs who had just had brain surgery (the "stretcher vote") in to vote in an effort to bring the government down.
		Later the same day, John Major 's threat of a dissolution was realised when the Government moved a new motion, differently worded to its predecessor and seeking the "confidence" of the House in their policy on the Social Chapter instead of merely "taking note" thereof.
	www.carolinamaps.net /search/Maastricht_Rebels.html (783 words)

	Books \| Goddess of destruction
		John Sergeant first entered British public consciousness when, in November 1990, he was bundled down the steps of the Paris embassy by Sir Bernard Ingham.
		Amid these tales of speaking engagements, there is the glimmer of an argument: that, in office, Mrs Thatcher was a malleable politician (most notably over European policy) who in retirement was bored, ill-advised, and reckless in her unceasing political machinations.
		Here is a tale of a lost tribe who died out not from climate change or foreign microbes, but because of a furious internecine struggle after they deposed their all powerful goddess.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5134629-99939,00.html (872 words)

	John Patten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Patten is the name of several notable men:
		John Patten, (1746-1800), American soldier, Congressman from Delaware
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Patten (82 words)

	BBC News \| Politics \| Politicians say farewell to Enoch Powell
		Enoch Powell, the most turbulent politician and controversial patriot of his generation, was laid to rest on Wednesday, alongside the comrades with whom he served in the Second World War.
		Politicians and peers had turned out in force for the first of the two funeral services in honour of Mr Powell - one of the most controversial British politicians of his generation.
		The former Prime Minister, John Major, and former colleagues Michael Howard, Ann Widdecombe, John Patten and William Waldegrave were among mourners.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/politics/57815.stm (673 words)

	[A-List] UK state: Europe strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Patten has just been appointed Chancellor of Oxford University while Kinnock has been getting into hot water over accounting problems inside the Commission and looks fed up with his assignment anyway, since rumour has it that, despite being Vice President, Romano Prodi has kept Kinnock out of important strategic discussions.
		Patten cuts a much stronger figure than Goodlad, and his position as UK state insider was cemented by his five years as governor of Hong Kong and his chairmanship of the committee that drew up the reform plans for the Royal Ulster Constabulary -- now the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
		Thus, having already ditched protocol to put in place a big-hitting state insider, Blair could go one further and appoint two Labour nominees, both of whom belong to what is now well and truly the state party and at least one of whom (Mandelson) can be regarded as a big-hitting state insider.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-March/024444.html (813 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		The Right Honourable John Major CH is a British politician and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997, attaining that office when he succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Conservative party leader.
		John Major has been a member of Carlyle Group's European Advisory Board since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of Carlyle Europe in May 2001.
		John Major's appearance was noted in its greyness, and in his prodigious philtrum, both of which were exaggerated in caricatures.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /John_Major (2013 words)

	february 2005 > final credits > last link on the left
		John Donald MacIntyre Gass was chosen by 33,000 ophthalmologists around the world as one of the 10 most influential ophthalmologists of the 20th century.
		Patten was one of the founders of Crew Records, based in Detroit and Atlanta, and sang backup for the label's recording artists.
		John Ebstein was the industrial designer who led a team that created the Studebaker Avanti sports car, and influenced the look of a wide range of products from Lucky Strike cigarettes to Greyhound buses.
	lastlinkontheleft.com /fc0502.html (16434 words)

	Amazon.com: John Major: Books: John Major (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		John Major's autobiography is one of the most personal and revealing ever written by a former British Prime Minister.Eagerly awaited, the remarkable story of his life, from an extraordinary childhood to becoming an influential leader at the forefront of global politics and subsequent fall, is candid, scrupulous, and unsparing.
		John Major's autobiography is a clear and balanced account of his early life and of his time in office leading the United Kingdom.
		John would at times rally the party after a particularly bad set of revelations only to have another Tory MP infamously exposed by the press for bad conduct or for misappropriation of funds.
	www.amazon.com /John-Major/dp/0006530745 (3492 words)

	Uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kennel Club (UK) The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom is a club aiming to improve the relationships between dogs and their owners.
		James Gray (UK politician) James Whiteside Gray (born 7 November 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
		John Patten (UK politician) John Patten was a Tory party member of Parliament of Oxford West and Abingdon in the United Kingdom.
	www.pheeds.com /bib/search.cgi?format=html&results=10&pre=30&suf=30&id=dw&keywords=Uk (468 words)

	UK Elections: Why Politics Isn't Working
		Small wonder people turn off when politicians are allowed only to parrot the same handful of slogans and homilies that their pollsters tell them will influence swing voters.
		John Prescott then captured the imagination of the nation by punching the lights out of a countryside campaigner.
		But politicians and the media -- who have been the accessories to this perversion of democracy -- simply have to raise their game.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views01/0603-02.htm (1818 words)

	Education UK Indonesia - Latest Education Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Watch and learn: five UK universities are working together to show the results of their research around the world on television.
		UK student fashions success in China: De Montfort University student Victoria Freeman has beaten competition from around the world to win a bronze award for her lingerie designs in China.
		UK degrees step up a class: an unprecedented 10 per cent increase in the number of first and second class degrees awarded by institutions has been recorded during the past five years.
	www.educationuk.or.id /archive.htm (8395 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 21 May 1997 (pt 2)
		Gentleman referred to John Patten as "controversial" although I am not sure what that means these days.
		I believe that John Patten came to the House because he believed in things: he was a conviction politician.
		John Patten is a great loss to this House.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo970521/debtext/70521-02.htm (3181 words)

	Why Toby Micklethwait is so optimistic about UKIP \| Samizdata.net
		The cavalier attitude of the major UK parties could be the cause of their downfall in the very near future, as the population grows increasingly agitated at the performance of their old boys club.
		To assume that European politicians understand the subtle and complex ways in which a free society works, or for that matter to even assume that they, some of which [especially the French!] are deeply resentful of the Anglosphere, even desire the United Kingdom to prosper, is crassly naïve.
		The politicians' first reactions suggest they are so enmired in "the project" that they can only interpret the vote as a mark of their failure to get the EU message across.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/006223.html (13636 words)

	Vote Of Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Politicians refuse to look back and make an appraisal of the damage done to our basic industries as a result of allowing decisions about production to be influenced by politcal strictures, imposed by past agreements and treaties with other countries on mainland Europe.
		John Major’s Government recalled the merit in the system that had operated in the thirties under private enterprise and with undue haste privatized the railways with an ill-conceived plan that did not clearly restore the system destroyed by World War II and the Attlee Government.
		Had successive UK governments ensured that the pension aspect of the National insurance Fund had been administered on a proper actuarial basis, then many Old Pensioners would be receiving pension far in excess of the revised figures proposed by the Chancellor.
	www.bromyard.co.uk /htms (12383 words)

	UK TV Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Exclusive to UK Style, a series charting the adventures of the Lyne family from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, who have sold up and moved to a rundown, waterside motel on the Florida Keys.
		John uses his unique gift to reunite people with the spirit of their dead relatives and friends.
		Having lost his seat in the 1992 general election, Patten is appointed as the first politician to be governor of Hong Kong.
	uktv.tv /2002/09/13 (9487 words)

	Magic Statistics - “I accept no responsibility for statistics, which are a form of magic beyond my ...
		On a personal note, the StatWife and I lived in Oxford, UK, for a year while Lady Thatcher was PM and had the distinct pleasure of voting for John Patten, Conservative MP, Oxford West and Abingdon, in the general election of June 1987, which Lady Thatcher and her Conservative Party won handily.
		(UK election law allows Commonwealth citizens who have resided in the country for six months to vote.) It was probably the most personally satisfying vote I have ever cast.
		This entry is filed under United Kingdom, Feminism, Oxford, UK politics & government.
	magicstatistics.com /2005/10/13/the-most-successful-female-politician-of-our-time (659 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		Mr Hague's decision to run the last lap of his campaign attacking Europe in general, and the euro in particular, was always going to smack of desperation.
		At precisely the same moment in 1997, John Major offered his apocalyptic vision: the very Union of the United Kingdom was in peril.
		The pressure groups opposed to the single currency of course have the odd Labour politician on their letterheads.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT309A6VBNC.html (746 words)

	CAIN: Paul Arthur (2000) Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland problem
		He had two meetings with Atkins on 10 and 15 December when the Northern Secretary agreed that he would ‘be willing on request, and quite apart from the conference, to have separate meeting with the parties represented at the conference on wider issues’.
		Jackson writes that it ‘is scarcely an exaggeration to suggest that the economic crisis of the 1970s helped to shape some of the fundamental features of Irish politics not just at the time but for much of the next 20 years’.
		John Whale in the Sunday Times (5 September 1976) argued that interrogation techniques used by the army when internment was introduced ‘were designed, in plain terms, to send men out of their minds’.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/politics/docs/arthur00.htm (9818 words)

	InterStudent.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jimmy Tarbuck: Comedian who went to school with John Lennon and whose daughter is a popular and charismatic TV presenter.
		John Moore: Famous entrepreneur, now with a University named after him.
		John Peel: Another absent Scouser, but legendary DJ of the highest calibre nonetheless.
	www.interstudent.co.uk /printarticle621.html (326 words)

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