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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Swinney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) John Swinney is the former leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). John Ramsey Swinney (born April 13, 1964, in Edinburgh) is the former leader (or National Convenor) of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Swinney joined the SNP at the age of 15, citing his anger at the way in which Scotland Scotland (Alba in Scots Gaelic) is a nation in northwest Europe and a constituent country of the United Kingdom. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Swinney   (527 words)

John Swinney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Ramsey Swinney (born April 13, 1964, in Edinburgh) is the former leader (or National Convenor) of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Swinney joined the SNP at the age of 15, citing his anger at the way in which Scotland was being portrayed by television commentators at the Commonwealth Games. Swinney was a research officer for the Scottish Coal Project 1987-1988, a senior management consultant with Development Options 1988-1992, and a strategic planning principal with Scottish Amicable 1992-1997. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Swinney   (462 words)

John Swinney John Swinney is the current leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) having defeated Alex Neil in a leadership contest in 2000, caused when Alex Salmond stood down as party leader. Swinney joined the SNP at the age of 15, citing his anger at the way in which Scotland was being portrayed by television commentators at the Commonwealth Games. Swinney won the contest but the media raised some doubt about his ability to lead following poor SNP performances in the 2001 UK General Election and the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Election. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Swinney.html   (224 words)

John Swinney MSP — SNP - Scottish National Party John is Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the Scottish Government. In 2000, John was elected SNP Leader, becoming Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. Born in Edinburgh in 1964, John graduated with MA Honours Politics from Edinburgh University. www.snp.org /people/parliamentarians/john-swinney-msp   (233 words)

ePolitix.com - John Swinney - leader of the Scottish National Party John Swinney: It's a bit of both, the Scottish Executive in Edinburgh has demanded that the UK government leads in the European negotiations on fisheries, that's been their established position. John Swinney: Well, if you look at the major political issues of the day, whether it's about the failure of the government on hospital waiting lists, or the battle against crime, or the weakness of the fishing deal, the SNP is in the leadership position in counting what the government is doing. John Swinney: I would be a first minister that the public of Scotland could trust to deliver on his word and a first minister that would deliver an ambitious vision of how Scotland could release our potential as a country, and ensure that Scotland became the best that Scotland could be. www.epolitix.com /EN/Interviews/200302/2E14FA95-49AA-4254-A583-C0618C3300AF.htm   (1509 words)

NameTraq | Last Name: Swinney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Sources close to John Swinney have revealed that the leader of the SNP is less than amused at being given the same size of office as the rest of the MSPs. John Swinney, the SNP leader, said it was a myth that Scotland was subsidised by the rest of the UK claiming that Scots contributed billions more in taxes than... John Swinney, leader of the SNP opposition, said 2003 was a year in which Scotland's lack of a voice in the world had never been more obvious or the... www.nametraq.org /Jan04/S/Swinney.shtml   (2450 words)

Scotland: Scottish National Party in crisis Swinney and his supporters are planning a major overhaul of the party constitution aimed at centralising control in the SNP's headquarters. John Swinney's own constituency, Tayside North, has 10% of the entire 16,000 claimed membership of the SNP, organised in 11 branches. Swinney himself is an ineffective politician, more of a bank manager than a political leader, who has made a negligible impact since replacing the more populist Alex Salmond as SNP leader. www.socialistworld.net /eng/2003/08/17scotland.html   (586 words)

The Sunday Mail - NEWS - OFF THE HOOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) JOHN SWINNEY won his SNP leadership battle by a four-to-one landslide yesterday. Swinney secured 84 per cent of the votes and supporters claimed he had silenced his critics in the party. Swinney, who has led the party for only three years, said the ``door is shut on these arguments''. www.sundaymail.co.uk /news/content_objectid=13456327_method=full_siteid=86024_headline=-OFF-THE-HOOK-name_page.html   (497 words)

john swinney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) John Swinney is the caretaker leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Swinney defeated Alex Neil in a leadership contest in 2000, caused when Alex Salmond stood down as party leader. He announced his own resignation on June 22, 2004, and will continue as caretaker leader until a replacement can be chosen. www.yourencyclopedia.net /john_swinney.html   (358 words)

John Swinney pledges "opportunity for Scotland" — SNP - Scottish National Party He went on to say that the year would be an opportunity for the people to change the Government of Scotland and elect an SNP administration determined to rebuild public services and make their country the best it can be through Independence. Mr Swinney went on to say he would vigorously set out the SNP's visionary policies in areas such as the economy, health, education, and crime - policies that would transform the life chances of people in Scotland. Mr Swinney also promised a vigorous and positive campaign across the communities of Scotland that would motivate the electorate to change the way our country is run. www.snp.org /press-releases/2002/news.818   (570 words)

Swinney successor has to see the light John Swinney was handed a dubious legacy by Alex Salmond. The same hack MSPs now talking up their chances of being elected to succeed Swinney confused electors and SNP members alike by failing to address the questions posed by devolution itself, the changing nature of the EU, and the global economy and balance of power. That was the lacklustre legacy left to John Swinney by Alex Salmond. www.alba.org.uk /snpleadership/200437.html   (855 words)

Joe Middleton's Scottish Republican & Independence Weblog: April 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Swinney had opened the day with a personal plea to some 400 delegates." But in that same report, on one of the key issues, the voting was 146 votes for Swinney and 127 against. JOHN Swinney's ability to keep order within the SNP was again in question last night, as one of his vice-conveners accused the party of double standards over the suspension of a rebel MSP. JOHN SWINNEY, the Scottish National Party leader, was facing the first signs of open grassroots dissent last night over the decision to suspend one of the party's MSPs. www.20six.co.uk /Scot_JoeMiddleton/archive/2004/04   (11939 words)

FairVote - In the news There’s no missing the bitter irony of the coincidence between John Swinney’s political fall and a reform that is bound to favour not only his party, but his chosen style of politics. According to electoral expert John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, Labour stands to lose about 100 of its 509 Scottish council seats, dipping from 42 per cent of the available places to 34 per cent on a roughly similar voting pattern. Not, perhaps, as leader of the SNP, at a moment when the party is preparing to shoot the white-water rapids of division and self- reinvention - and of almost inevitable separation between gradualists and fundamentalists - that it was bound to face in the aftermath of devolution. www.fairvote.org /rtv/?page=39&articlemode=showspecific&showarticle=218   (732 words)

SSP News : News from the Scottish Socialist Party So John Swinney has fallen on his claymore and the SNP is looking for a new leader. John is a nice man and at least he had the decency to resign his job when he didn't think he was up to the mark. “John Swinney’s resignation marks a watershed in the development of pro independence politics in Scotland, Scotland’s political terrain will never be the same again. www.scottishsocialistparty.info /archive/2004_06_20_newsarchive.html   (835 words)

BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews Mr Swinney your problem is that you are putting too much emphasis on independence, and most people in Scotland don't want independence. SWINNEY: To go back to what I said to you in my first answer what I will do at the elections next year, is set out to people what the SNP will do within the existing powers of the Scottish parliament but I'll... SWINNEY: But there are limitations to what the parliament can do, and I believe the solution to many of the problems in Scotland can only come from the normality of independence, so that's the message I'll give to people in the election. www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext/20020922_int_2.html   (802 words)

Scotland: Interview with John McAllion John McAllion was for many years an outspoken Labour MP at both Westminster and Holyrood parliaments. John McAllion: I think if it worked, and if workers were joining the Labour Party, then great. Certainly, if John Swinney concentrates power at the party centre, the SNP may split. www.socialistworld.net /eng/2003/08/22scotland.html   (519 words)

[A-List] Scotland: SNP disintegration?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Despite an apparent lack of talent in the leadership stakes, John Swinney's tenure as SNP leader has been marked by what ought to be regarded very suspiciously as an unlikely mushrooming of dissent and rebellion. Swinney and his supporters last week warned the dissident wing of the parliamentary group against undermining the leadership. Martin, whose road to suspension began last month when he called for Swinney to go in a television interview, said he was "very disappointed" by the ruling. lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-May/030393.html   (816 words)

Campbell Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was a prominent backer of Dr Bill Wilson who stood against John Swinney for the SNP leadership in 2003. He has been critical of the direction of the SNP since becoming a MSP, believing they are being dragged into the political centre away from their traditional left-of-centre position. He was suspended from the Scottish National Party on 25 April 2004 after publicly criticing John Swinney, and was expelled from the SNP on 10 July 2004 — soon after Swinney had resigned. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Campbell_Martin   (169 words)

Learn more about Politics of the United Kingdom in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) The Labour Party elected staunch left-winger Michael Foot as their leader after their 1979 election defeat, and he responded to Margaret Thatcher's government by moving the party further to the left, a move which split the party and was widely believed to have made Labour unelectable for a decade. Labour were badly defeated by the Conservatives in the general election of 1983 and Michael Foot was replaced by the more moderate Neil Kinnock as leader of the Labour party, who expelled the far left-wing Militant group, and moderated many of the parties policies. He was replaced by John Smith after Labour's narrow defeat in the 1992 general election. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/politics_of_the_united_kingdom.html   (3675 words)

01/03/02 JOHN SWINNEY TARGETS LABOUR OVER INDEPENDENCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) SNP leader John Swinney today moved to put Scottish Independence at the forefront of the SNP's campaign strategy for next year's Holyrood election. In what amounts to a sharpening and refocusing of its central message, Mr Swinney promised “to take Labour head-on” immediately on the Independence argument and to stimulate public debate on the merits of Independence. John Swinney will launch the new strategy in a speech to his party's national council in Perth on Saturday. www.dundeesnp.org /press/2002/020301_independence.htm   (301 words)

BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | KEY PEOPLE | John Swinney Less than a year into his job as Scottish National Party Leader and John Swinney is about to face his toughest test. A politics graduate who pursued a career in Scotland's financial sector before entering Westminster as MP for Tayside North in 1997, Mr Swinney has lost what some saw as a bookish image, which was perhaps a leftover from his former career. Despite his relative youth - he joined the party at the age of 15 and was elected national secretary at the age of 22 - Mr Swinney has long been a key thinker and strategist within the SNP and will be looking to bring these qualities to bear on the natonalists' campaign. news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/key_people/newsid_1232000/1232046.stm   (462 words)

Scotland on Sunday - Victorious Swinney seeks deal with unions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Following John Swinney’s commanding victory over the activist challenging for his job, it was revealed that a leading union is in talks with party officials about the possibility of providing financial support for SNP candidates and Nationalist campaigns. Swinney’s stock within the party, however, could also rise if he becomes the first SNP leader to strike a deal on funding and political support from the trade union movement. A source close to John Swinney said the leadership is very supportive of the idea of closer links with the RMT and other unions. scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1076412003   (824 words)

JOHNSWINNEY Elected MP for North Tayside from 1997 to 2001, John Swinney MSP has also represented his North Tayside Constituency since the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. John graduated with an MA Honours in Politics from Edinburgh University and lives near Blairgowrie, in his North Tayside Constituency. Well liked as an excellent constituency MSP, John has been an advocate for the work of the SEER Centre since its inception in Tayside in 1996. www.seercentre.org.uk /conference/JOHNSWINNEY.htm   (99 words)

[A-List] Scotland: pollsters' ruse?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Therefore, to see him being compared favourably on this issue with John Swinney is a bit of a shock. An analysis by Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University found Swinney trails his party's support on both the trust question and his ability to 'stand up for Scotland', while McConnell does better than his own party on both counts. This is despite Swinney's team, with several key women figures, focussing on improving the party's female political appeal. lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-April/024993.html   (953 words)

Sunday Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) JOHN Swinney has been warned by one of his closest advisers and supporters that he will face “the men in grey kilts” if the SNP suffers a disappointing result in the European election. Swinney has decided to take the risk of arguing personally for those issues at this month’s special conference, effectively putting his leadership on the line. Swinney convincingly defeated a leadership challenge last September, with 84% of the vote to 16% for Glasgow activist Bill Wilson. www.sundayherald.com /print41038   (592 words)

Joe Middleton's Scottish Republican & Independence Weblog: June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) Swinney is likely to be replaced by one of his right-hand women - either deputy leader Roseanna Cunningham, who's made no secret of her republican views, or Sturgeon, a cool but rather humourless operator. As John Swinney finally acknowledged when he gave up the fight on Tuesday, dealing with the internecine warfare and backstabbing leaves little energy or opportunity to convince voters that this is a party capable of governing the country. John Swinney, who announced this week he is to step down, urged the party to be wary of attempts to "corrode" it. www.20six.co.uk /Scot_JoeMiddleton/archive/2004/06   (13306 words)

John Swinney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) He involved himself in the SNP Youth Wing and gradually as time went by more and more active in the party firstly the SNP Assistant National Secretary and the National Secretary. The SNP did poorly at the 2004 elections and Swinney resigned soon afterwards. Ireland is a country which unfortunately has lacked composers of international stature over the years, the most famous Irish composer was probably John Field who influenced Chopin in inventing the Nocturne. www.freeglossary.com /John_Swinney   (463 words)

John Swinney - Definition, explanation Swinney defeated Alex Neil in a leadership contest in 2000, caused by Alex Salmond's decision to step down as party leader. He stood down as a Westminster MP at the 2001 election in order to avoid splitting his time, in line with all of his colleagues who found themselves in a similar 'dual mandate' position. Swinney won the contest but the media raised some doubt about his ability to lead the party following poor SNP performances in the 2001 UK General Election and the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Election. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/jo/john_swinney.php   (534 words)

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