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	Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations.
		Conservative modernisers point to Afriyie's election as evidence that the party is changing, though opponents argue that the election of a single black MP doesn't count for much against the anti-immigration campaign fought by the Conservatives in 2005.
		Conservative leaders since 1997 have faced difficulties in returning the party to being a serious contender for government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)

	Conservative party, British political party
		Conservative party, British political party, formally the Conservative and Unionist party and a continuation of the historic
		Policy Reform and the Politics of Housing in the British Conservative Party 1924-1929.(Critical Essay) (The Australian Journal of Politics and History)
		Polarizing British Politics.(Labor and Conservative Party conferences in the United Kingdom) (The New Leader)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0813293.html

	Photograph: Winston Churchill addressing Unionist Party meeting, August 10, 1901, Churchill and the Great Republic (A Library of Congress Interactive Exhibition, Text Version)
		Seconding a resolution commending leaders of the Conservative (Unionist) Party, Churchill praised them for having brought the "colonies into line with the Mother Country" even as he condemned "the mischievous work" of the deceased Liberal Prime Minister William E. Gladstone.
		Photograph: Winston Churchill addressing Unionist Party meeting, August 10, 1901, Churchill and the Great Republic (A Library of Congress Interactive Exhibition, Text Version)
		This photograph shows him addressing a large political rally held in the summer of 1901 at his birthplace, Blenheim Palace.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/churchill/interactive/_html/wc0043_1.html

	Ulster Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party (1785 words)

	ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home_rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish_Parliamentary_Party under leaders Isaac_Butt, William Shaw, Charles_Stewart_Parnell and John_Redmond.
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a unionist political party in Northern_Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
	velocipay.com /Ulster_Unionist_Party (1315 words)

	ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home_rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish_Parliamentary_Party under leaders Isaac_Butt, William Shaw, Charles_Stewart_Parnell and John_Redmond.
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a unionist political party in Northern_Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
	www.palfacts.com /Ulster_Unionist_Party (1315 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		It came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
		The Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Ulster_Unionist_Party (1315 words)

	Britain's Conservative Party exposes its racist underbelly
		Powell was dismissed from the shadow cabinet for his remarks by the then Tory leader, Edward Heath and later resigned from the Conservative Party in 1974 to become MP for the Official Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.
		In 1992 a decision by Conservative Central Office to select black barrister John Taylor as the candidate for Cheltenham and Gloucester resulted in a racist backlash in the local party and allegations of racist attacks against Taylor.
		It is common knowledge that the fascist National Front virtually liquidated itself into the Conservative Party following Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister in 1979, attracted by her assertions that Britain was being "swamped" by immigrants.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/apr2001/hag-a03.shtml (1315 words)

	Syria Government 1991 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		Political parties and leaders: ruling party is the Arab Socialist Resurrectionist (Bath) Party; the Progressive National Front is dominated by Bathists but includes independents and members of the Syrian Arab Socialist Party (ASP), Arab Socialist Union (ASU), Syrian Communist Party (SCP), Arab Socialist Unionist Movement, and Democratic Socialist Union Party
		Other political or pressure groups: non-Bath parties have little effective political influence; Communist party ineffective; greatest threat to Asad regime lies in factionalism in the military; conservative religious leaders; Muslim Brotherhood
		Mustafa TALAS (since 11 March 1984); Deputy Prime Minister Salim YASIN (since NA December 1981); Deputy Prime Minister Mahmud QADDUR (since NA May 1985)
	www.theodora.com /wfb1991/syria/syria_government.html (1315 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionists (1315 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Throughout this period the party was affiliated to the National Union of the Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist MPs at the Westminster Parliament were a part of the conservative block.
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party (1315 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UUP came into existence as the Irish Unionist Party in 1905 to resist any granting of home rule to Ireland within the United Kingdom, which was the main demand of the Irish Parliamentary Party under leaders Isaac Butt, William Shaw, Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond.
		The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972.
		For example, Ulster Unionist support was necessary to sustain the Conservative Government of Prime Minister John Major during the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 when many of his own MPs (the Maastricht Rebels) revolted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionists (1315 words)

	Conservative - Conservative
		The official website of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
		Takes conservative ideas to young women and mentors them into effective leaders, and works to make parents preeminent in the education of their children.
		Conservative Thinking is a group blog maintained by Chris Short that provides commentary and news from some of the worldâs best Conservative bloggers.
	www.conservativethink.com /conservative (1169 words)

	The Conservative Party (UK)
		Under the rules of the Conservative party, the back bench Conservative 1922 Committee will review the leadership, and in order for this to take place the chairman of the committee, Sir Michael Spicer must be presented with 25 letters proposing a vote.
		The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations.
		Peel and many of the party's leaders, including a young William Gladstone, found themselves adrift from the rank and file of the party.
	www.worldwidewebfind.com /encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/t/th/the_conservative_party__uk_.html (1169 words)

	Irish Home Rule
		In the fall of 1913 Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster Unionist Council, and Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the Conservative Party, decided that exclusion might offer a reasonable solution, though they feared it might earn them the resentment of southern Unionists wishing to uphold the 1801 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain.
		The Easter Rebellion of 1916 by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and the execution of its leaders by the British ended any political legitimacy Britain might have maintained in Ireland prior to the Rebellion.
		The aristocrats’ picture of the Irish as a “semi-civilized, wholly-uneducated race of near barbarians, who were permitted to exist merely as an act of grace on the part of their English conquerors” rationalized the fact that the Lords could find no pretext to account for past atrocities in Ireland.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/Sullivan.htm (3205 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders
		Conservative Party or PSC [Carlos HOLGUIN Sardi]; Liberal Party or PL [Horatio SERPA Uribe]; Patriotic Union or UP is a legal political party formed by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC and Colombian Communist Party or PCC [Jaime CAICEDO]; 19 of April Movement or M-19 [Antonio NAVARRO Wolff]
		Communist Party of Guadeloupe or PCG [Christian CELESTE]; FGPS [Dominique LARIFLA]; Progressive Democratic Party or PPDG [Henri BANGOU]; Rally for the Republic or RPR [Aldo BLAISE]; Socialist Party or PS [Georges LOUISOR]; Union for French Democracy or UDF [Marcel ESDRAS]
		political party activity is organized along largely sectarian lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual political figures and followers motivated by religious, clan, and economic considerations
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2118.html (3205 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		User:John Kenney john 04:03, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC) I've move the page back, because it created zillions of broken links and as someone stated above ''The Conservative and Unionist Party (UK)'' contains the unnecessary (UK) disambiguation.
		User:Mintguy Mintguy User talk: Mintguy (T) 09:39, 4 May 2004 (UTC) I agreed with (and helped research) the original change (which was desperately needed for the sake of consistency) to The Labour Party (UK) and The Conservative Party (UK) but in practice I have found the "The"s tend to produce awkward links.
		User:Evercat Evercat 15:16, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC) ---- Presumably this panel of grandee ex-party leaders that Michael Howard has put together to advise him will be advising him on how to keep the party leadership and win elections (on the basis that none of them could!).
	www.mauspfeil.net /Conservative_Party_%28UK%29.html (3205 words)

	Syria Government 1989 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		Political parties and leaders: ruling party is the Arab Socialist Resurrectionist (Bath) Party; the Progressive National Front is dominated by Bathists but includes independents and members of the Syrian Arab Socialist Party (ASP), Arab Socialist Union (ASU), Socialist Unionist Movement, and Syrian Communist Party (SCP)
		Other political or pressure groups: non-Bath parties have little effective political influence; Communist party ineffective; greatest threat to Assad regime lies in factionalism in the military; conservative religious leaders; Muslim Brotherhood
		Hafiz al-ASSAD (since 22 February 1971); Vice Presidents Abd al-Halim KHADDAM, Dr. Rifat al-ASSAD, and Muhammad Zuhayr MASHARIQA (since 11 March 1984); @m5Head of Government Prime Minister Mahmud ZUBI (since 1 November 1987)
	www.theodora.com /wfb1989/syria/syria_government.html (348 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders
		Coalition of the Left and Progress (Synaspismos) [Nikolaos KONSTANDOPOULOS]; Communist Party of Greece or KKE [Aleka PAPARIGA]; New Democracy or ND (conservative) [Konstandinos KARAMANLIS]; Panhellenic Socialist Movement or PASOK [Konstandinos SIMITIS]
		Nasserist Arab Democratic Party or Nasserists [Dia' al-din DAWUD]; National Democratic Party or NDP [President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK] - governing party; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu [Khalid MUHI AL-DIN]; New Wafd Party or NWP [No'man GOMA]; Socialist Liberal Party or LSP [leader NA]
		Grenada United Labor Party or GULP [Herbert PREUDHOMME]; National Democratic Congress or NDC [leader vacant]; New National Party or NNP [George McGUIRE]
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2118.html (348 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland switch's party affiliation to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists
		The historic decision followed years of growing tensions between the moderate leadership of the Ulster Unionists, who have supported Northern Ireland's decade-old peace process, and the conservative leaders of the Orange Order, who have largely rejected it.
		Orange Grandmaster Robert Saulters said the brotherhood, which has more than 50,000 members in this province of 1.7 million people, had decided to withdraw because the Ulster Unionists were no longer the major Protestant-backed party.
		The move ended the Orangemen's right to hold scores of seats within the grassroots Ulster Unionist Council, which wields the power to elect and topple Ulster Unionist leaders.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /orange_switch.html (497 words)

	UK Political Blog Feeds
		The Scottish elections of 2007 are likely to be the most exciting for decades and the result will determine the fate, not only of the party leaders, but of the direction taken by their parties and, ultimately, Scotland itself.
		The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party has long been the natural depository for voters who strongly feel they are British first and Scottish second.
		During the general election, the Scottish Labour Party manifesto did not mention the proposed incitement offence, because criminal law in Scotland is legislated by the Scottish Parliament.
	voidstar.com /ukpoliblog/index.php?fid=144&... (497 words)

	Will Crooks
		In 1901 Crooks became the first Labour mayor of Poplar, and — two years later — was elected to Parliament as MP for Woolwich (after a pact between the Labour Representation Committee and the Liberal Party wrested the seat away from the Conservative Party).
		William (Will) Crooks ( 6 April 1852- 5 June 1921) was a noted trade unionist and politician from Poplar, London, and a member of the Fabian Society.
		Earlier that year, Crooks, a candidate for the Progressive Party, successfully stood for election to the London County Council, and joined Sidney Webb and other labour movement leaders in the LCC.
	www.wikiverse.org /will-crooks (497 words)

	JAMES ELLES
		David Trimble, the First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Unionist Party, visited the European Parliament on 4 December and met James Elles and Jacqueline Foster, Conservative spokesman on transport.
		During a break in a meeting of EPP-ED leaders and Conservative group leaders from national parliaments in Brussels on 5 April, James is pictured with, left Elmar Brok, the German chairman of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee, and centre, Ilkka Suominen, a Finnish Euro MP, who is a vice-president of the EPP-ED group.
		Pictured after the lunch are Roy Perry, MEP; Mrs Betty Kendrick, president; Jonathan Evans, the leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, who was the guest speaker; Mrs Greta Darke, chairman; James Elles, MEP.
	www.jameselles.com /site/article.cfm?MID=5 (497 words)

	ulstday.htm
		Northern loyalist leaders were now unsure of Conservative resolve at Westminster and disgusted at the apparent indifference of the British electorate to resist pressure for Home Rule.
		At the same time the Conservatives in Ulster launched their campaign against Home Rule with a series of meetings and rallies culminating in the Ulster Hall on 22 February 1886 with a Monster Meeting of Conservatives and Orangemen.
		Notes was a regular bulletin of Irish affairs first appearing in 1886 as a record of sayings and doings of the Parnellite party.
	www.proni.gov.uk /exhibiti/ulstday/ulstday2.htm (497 words)

	Conservatives in the European Parliament - News Story - New European Democrats Vice-President of the EPP-ED Group
		The ED has members from the UK (Conservative Party and Ulster Unionist Party), the Czech Republic (Civic Democrats), Portugal (Partido Popular) and Italy (Pensionati).
		The ED also has a Political Bureau made up of the ED Vice President of the group and the Leaders of the national delegations, which meets periodically.
		The ED is expressly committed to democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law, national sovereignty, free enterprise, minimal regulation, low taxation, private ownership, respect and security for every individual and a strong transatlantic alliance.
	www.conservatives.com /meps/story.cfm?obj_id=121722 (497 words)

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