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  Kate Hoey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catharine Letitia Hoey, known as Kate Hoey (born June 21, 1946, Belfast) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Hoey was educated at Belfast Royal Academy, Ulster College of Physical Education and City of London College.
On 22nd July 2005, Ms Hoey was named the new chairman of the Countryside Alliance (the main pro-hunting group in the UK); she said the appointment was a "great honour and a great challenge".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kate_Hoey   (542 words)

  
 Kate Hoey MP and Lambeth Labour Party - Brian Deer investigates
Hm," says Hoey to the fair-haired woman, with a curl of her wide mouth and a nasal mid-tone sound that's somewhere between expectant and weary.
Hoey has just come out of the police station after a meeting on crime prevention, but it's not officers who are causing her delay.
During Hoey's period as the member of parliament, the active party membership has halved, its income fallen sharply, and there have been countless allegations that party rules and agreements are being broken on every sides.
briandeer.com /kate-hoey.htm   (4508 words)

  
 UK Political Weblogs - Kate Hoey (Proxy Blog)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Set up after the 2005 election in response to Kate Hoey's apparent technophobia, this proxy-blog is a mix of passive reporting (via Google News, Technorati and Theyworkforyou.com), the occasional stir, and links to her declared interests and voting record.
However, Kate Hoey's heart and mind appears to be in the countryside, rather than with her constituents.
Kate Hoey would first need a desire to address her constituents, followed by the will and intelligence to do so online.
www.bloggerheads.com /political_weblogs/archives/2005/05/kate_hoey_proxy.html   (733 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Hillsborough victims lambast Hoey
Despite Hoey being slapped down by her boss, Culture Secretary Chris Smith, she found some support from the man recently appointed to oversee the construction of the new Wembley, Sir Rodney Walker.
'We challenge Kate Hoey to look us in the eyes as she attempts to explain why she is fiddling with safety in response to a vociferous minority of fans,' said Trevor Hicks, chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
'Kate Hoey may have forgotten the real horror of Hillsborough, but we have not and cannot.' Eddie Spearitt, whose son Adam died at the ground, added: 'What Kate Hoey said disgusts me. It is a smack in the mouth for all those who lost somebody in the tragedy.
www.soccernet.com /england/news/2000/1223/20001223hoeysafestanding.html   (744 words)

  
 The Observer | UK News | It's the animal rights hypocrites I can't stand
Kate Hoey, the Labour MP, said consumers needed to think about the connection between their food and where it had been reared, buying as close as possible to the farm gate.
Hoey's passionate opposition to a hunting ban has not endeared her to many Labour colleagues.
It is perhaps not hard to see where Kate Hoey inherited her stubborn streak, perhaps the main thing she shares with all those Alliance members out on horseback this weekend.
observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1604740,00.html   (1111 words)

  
 Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, has no website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Until Kate takes up the offer of this website (or sets up her own), we will do our best to monitor of what she's been up to on your behalf.
Kate Hoey has again joined other former ministers, including Clare Short, Kate Hoey, Glenda Jackson and Mark Fisher, in voting against the government in the debate on their ID card proposals.
This website has been setup by some of Kate Hoey's constituents who think she should use a website to keep us up-to-date about what she is doing in our name.
www.katehoey.co.uk   (697 words)

  
 'I will contact Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, asking why she has time to become chairman of the Countryside Alliance when ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kate Hoey presents herself as a good constituency MP, but she spends very little time repersenting us in Parliament (she has only voted in 56% of votes in the last Parliament).
Kate Hoey has said that "Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed." Does this now mean that we face the prospect of the clatter of hooves and the baying of hounds down Kennington Road to exterminate our numerous local furry friends??
Kate Hoey is a cold hearted bitch with no feelings for defenceless forms of life.
www.pledgebank.com /katehoey   (1425 words)

  
 Slugger O'Toole: Kate Hoey endorses Arlene Foster..
Posted by: Fermanagh Young Unionist at May 2, 2005 06:22 PM Kate Hoey is endorsing Arlene because she thinks that she would make an excellent MP and will be an asset to unionism as a whole.
Kate Hoey was born in 1946 and attended Ulster College of Physical Education and City of London College in the 1960s.
Posted by: David at May 12, 2005 10:41 AM As has been said Kate knows Arlene from her political involvment and endorsed her on that basis not because she was a university pal.
www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/04/kate_hoeys_endo.php   (1921 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Kate Hoey attacks Blair over Ireland
KATE HOEY, the former Labour minister, launches a scathing attack today on Tony Blair's policy towards Northern Ireland.
Belfast-born Miss Hoey, who was sacked from her job as sports minister in the last cabinet reshuffle, is well known for speaking her mind.
Kate Hoey: To keep his pledge, Tony Blair should blame the IRA terrorists
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/23/nuls23.xml   (178 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Column by Mick Dennis: Hang on Kate, isn't any of this your fault?
She was in the hot seat when it became clear that there was a fl hole in the funding for the athletics stadium at Picketts Lock.
When she took over as Sports Minister, she looked at the plan for a magnificent stadium and moaned out loud that it was a shame they could not save the old Twin Towers and it was a pity there wasn't going to be a permanent athletics track.
He inherited Hoey's messes and said: 'We can't give any more public money to Wembley and we are not going to fund a white elephant at Picketts Lock.' Both those sentiments seem entirely laudable, and so do his two other mantras.
www.soccernet.com /columns/2001/1017/20011017featdennis.html   (1668 words)

  
 Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1989 by-election was caused by Stuart Holland's resignation to take up an academic job in preference to remaining in the Labour Party.
Kate Hoey was shortlisted for the seat against the wishes of many left-wing local Labour activists who wanted Nigerian-born Martha Osamor.
The by-election saw one of the longest lists of 'serious' candidates at any by-election in the 1980s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vauxhall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)   (340 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Hoey to lead Countryside Alliance
Ms Hoey, 59, a long-standing defender of hunting, said the appointment was a "great honour and a great challenge".
Ms Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall in south London since 1989, said: "It is a great honour and a great challenge to take on this role at such an important time for the countryside.
The Countryside Alliance was formed in 1997 and has been vociferous in its campaign to stop hunting from being banned - a battle it lost in February with the introduction of the Hunting Act.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4714399.stm   (495 words)

  
 Countryside Alliance - Kate Hoey is new Alliance Chairman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kate Hoey MP will become Chairman of the Countryside Alliance in succession to John Jackson.
Miss Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall since 1989, was brought up in rural Northern Ireland and has a long interest in rural and environmental issues.
Kate Hoey said: ”The Alliance’s campaigns for the sustainability of the countryside have had a significant impact on the political landscape.
www.countryside-alliance.org.uk /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1892&Itemid=240   (361 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Aristotle | Kate Hoey
Irish born Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall and the first woman sports minister, has proven herself willing to challenge the government's line on more than one occasion.
A popular football fanatic and once Ulster's high jump champion, Kate Hoey seems to be tempting fate and the ultimate red card by ignoring all the rules of ministerial responsibility.
Ms Hoey was given her belated promotion in 1998 in recognition of her efforts to shore up Northern Ireland's protestant support for the Good Friday Agreement.
politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,-2458,00.html   (493 words)

  
 Slugger O'Toole: Tennis Racket
Kate Hoey seems to be the dogmatic one who insists on one particular way that sport is organised.
Kate is not being dogmatic, she seems open to NI tennis clubs affiliating to either official body.
Posted by: Jimmy_Sands at May 18, 2005 11:58 PM I thought Kate Hoey was a labour mp for a London constituency...someone should tell her that this is not a priority for the london labour voters she purports to represent.
www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/05/tennis_racket.php   (3323 words)

  
 Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, has no website: Post Office Demo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, has no website
Kate has joined postal workers in Northampton protesting in support of public ownership of the royal mail.
Kate Hoey can take up this website at any point assuming she is willing to conform to the the minimum requirements specified by the Political Weblog Project
www.katehoey.co.uk /2005/12/post_office_dem.html   (220 words)

  
 bfi | News | Kate Hoey MP Unveils Civic Trust Award for the bfi London IMAX Cinema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, today unveiled a Civic Trust Award at the bfi London IMAX Cinema.
Speaking at the ceremony, Kate Hoey MP said that she thought that the bfi London IMAX Cinema was particularly deserving of this award.
Kate Hoey said that the cinema must also be commended for the way in which it has transformed the area into an attractive public space and she congratulated the British Film Institute on its award.
www.bfi.org.uk:8080 /about/news/2000-06-02-hoeyimax.html   (328 words)

  
 Telegraph | Motoring | Portrait of a driver: Kate Hoey
Unfortunately, there will then be lots of mistakes in collecting it," says Kate Hoey with a wicked smile as we set off from Parliament towards her Vauxhall constituency, cut in two by London's new Berlin Wall - the congestion charge border.
Hoey's Mini isn't a powerful car: "It can get up to a reasonable speed but there's not much chance of me doing a Harriet Harman," she says.
But if you happen to bump into the Mayor of London in the next day or two, you could tell him quite how terrifying an angry Kate Hoey looks - and that it's not too late to cheer her up.
www.telegraph.co.uk /motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2003/02/14/emrport15.xml   (943 words)

  
 vigil
Hoey is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe and recently made a clandestine visit to see at first hand the devastation caused by Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina.
Hoey also paid tribute to lawyers who had put so much work into helping asylum seekers and to the Vigil for keeping Zimbabwe in the spotlight.
Kate Hoey was happy to renew her acquaintance with several of the asylum seekers whose hunger strike while in detention prompted the test case: Crispen Kulinji, Tafara Nhengu, Mqhubeli Timbha and Harris Nyatsanza.
www.thezimbabwean.co.uk /7-october-2005/vigil.html   (290 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Failed Asylum Seekers on UK Hunger Strike
Member of Parliament Kate Hoey, who recently returned from a trip to Zimbabwe, and Richard Howitt, a Labor Party member of the European Parliament, said anyone sent back to the country faced an uncertain future.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday the situation in Zimbabwe was of "serious international concern" and that no government that subscribed to human rights and democracy should allow this kind of thing to continue.
Kulinji had been due to be deported on Saturday but the move was temporarily delayed after Hoey asked that the case be re-examined.
english.epochtimes.com /news/5-6-25/29810.html   (440 words)

  
 kate hoey
LONDON - Labour MP Kate Hoey is stepping up pressure on Britain to bar Thabo Mbeki from the G8 summit in Scotland next month unless the South African president condemns the latest brutal excesses of the Mugabe regime.
Hoey witnessed first-hand the horrors of the violent attacks by police, soldiers and youth militia to clear out urban areas – all opposition strongholds - during a secret visit to Zimbabwe two weeks ago.
Hoey told The Zimbabwean this week she had been ‘numbed’ by her experience in Zimbabwe.
www.thezimbabwean.co.uk /24-june-2005/kate-hoey.html   (640 words)

  
 Memespring | Notebook
Firstly I would like to restate the offer that I have already made to Kate in writing for her to take up the existing site, which we are happy to continue to fund and maintain and expand as she sees fit.
Kate Hoey has stated she favors the site on Acre Lane already turned down by the NHS and Lambeth DAAT.
My MP, Kate Hoey (ex-minister and a bit bitter about it party), doesnt have a website, which, quite frankly, is piss-poor in these technological times.
www.memespring.co.uk   (4655 words)

  
 July05
Kate Hoey, a former Labour Minister for Sport, is to take the chair of the lobby group the Countryside Alliance.
Kate Hoey has long seen the unfairness of this and called for immediate exemptions for the
She is quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying: "All we have done is to criminalise law-abiding shooting and made it difficult for young people to become Olympic shooters while you can get a handgun on the streets as easily as getting a parking space."
www.wfsa.net /WFSANEWS/2005/July05.htm   (1050 words)

  
 HOEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kate Hoey's speech during the Hunting debate - 15 September 2004
Only three Labour MPs voted against a ban on hunting, Kate Hoey was one of them.
The MP to follow Ms Hoey in the debate - Dr. Julian Lewis (New Forest, East, Con) - said it was "a real privilege to follow what one can truly describe as an extremely brave speech".
www.btinternet.com /~james.baring/HOEY.html   (1029 words)

  
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She arrived back in London this morning with a tape of some very harrowing images: houses burned or smashed to the ground; some people smashing up their own homes - ordered to do so, they say, by the security services; babies and small children camped out in the open air in cold winter conditions.
Speaking to Kate Hoey about what might be done for Zimbabwe at the forthcoming G8 talks, Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangerai lays the blame for the situation in his country firmly at the door of his neighbour, the South African President, Thabo Mbeki.
Kate Hoey will report exclusively for Newsnight tonight on what she's seen, the people she's met, and what the world's most powerful countries should be doing for Zimbabwe at G8 where Africa is top of agenda.
www.charlierose.com /board/topic.asp?ti=13295   (1493 words)

  
 Campaign for an English Parliament News - England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kate Hoey and Colin Moynihan bowed by Celtic fringe.
Moynihan and Hoey argue for a one-stop funding agency to be called the Sports Foundation, which would be part of the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport and chaired by the Secretary of State.
It seems especially strange in light of the fact that Moynihan and Hoey don't want the sports councils of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to be disbanded.
thecep.org.uk /news/ViewItem.asp?Entry=633   (340 words)

  
 Kate Hoey Criticizes BBC at European Dressage Launch - Equiworld Magazine March 2003
Kate Hoey Criticizes BBC at European Dressage Launch - Equiworld Magazine March 2003
Kate Hoey MP, the former Minister for Sport, has criticized the BBC for their lack of coverage of equestrian sports during a reception to launch the 2003 European Dressage Championships, to be held at Hickstead in August.
Commenting on the refusal of the BBC to cover the event, she said "There are millions of follows and participants in all branches of equestrian sport who have a right to expect a public broadcast service to pay more attention to minority sporting activities.
www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/0403/edc.htm   (436 words)

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