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	Liberal Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Liberal Unionists were a British political party which split away from the Liberals in 1886, and had effectively merged with the Conservatives by the turn of the century, the formal merger being completed in 1912.
		Most of the Liberal Unionists were drawn from the Whig faction of the party, including Hartington, Lord Lansdowne, and George Goschen, and had been expected to split from the party (for reasons connected with economic and social policy) anyway.
		The resulting government was generally referred to as "Unionist", and the distinction between Conservatives and Liberal Unionists began to dissolve.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party (447 words)

	Liberal Party (UK)
		The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats.
		In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservatives under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites (but not Peel himself), defected to the Liberal side.
		A group of Liberal opponents of the merger continued under the old name of "the Liberal Party"; this was legally a new organisation (the headquarters, records, assets and debts of the old party were inherited by the Liberal Democrats), but its constitution asserts it to be the same party as that which had previously existed.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liberal_party__uk_.html (3116 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Liberal Unionist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The reason for the split in the Liberals was the conversion of Gladstone (Liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)) to the cause of Irish (The Celtic language of Ireland) Home Rule (Self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government).
		The leading Liberal Unionists were invited to join the Conservative Lord Salisbury (additional info and facts about Lord Salisbury) 's government, but most initially sat on the back benches, leaving the way open for the reunion of the Liberal Party.
		The resulting government was generally referred to as "Unionist (A worker who belongs to a trade union) ", and the distinction between Conservatives and Liberal Unionists began to dissolve.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liberal_unionist_party.htm (474 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The formal name is a vestige the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party and an echo of the party's (1886-1921) of the union of Great Britain Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and aspirations.
		It wasn't until the split in Liberal Party over Irish home rule in 1886 that the Conservatives were able to truly secure majorities through the defection of Liberal Unionists.
		Liberal mismanagement the early phases World War I led the return of the Unionists to power first in coalition with Asquith's Liberals and with the split and then the collapse the Liberals the Unionists under Andrew Bonar Law were able to become the dominant in Lloyd George's coalition government.
	www.freeglossary.com /Conservative_Party_(UK) (2658 words)

	Party Politics
		The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party (the two parties had already been in an alliance for some years).
		Economically, it is not a party founded on economic class interest, nor on explicit economic liberal doctrine (unlike some "Liberal Parties" in other countries); instead the party has historically combined a strong commitment to social justice, social provision and the welfare state with a strong belief in economic freedom and competitive markets wherever possible.
		The Liberal Democrats' opponents describe them as being all things to all people, having so many policies that they would find it impossible to implement them consistently were they to find themselves in Government; while supporters say that this reflects a misunderstanding of the federal and decentralised nature of the party.
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	Liberal Democrat History Group: Thesiswatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		L.A. Clark, 'The Liberal Party and collectivism, 1886-1906', (Cambridge M.Litt., 1957).
		M.W. Hart, 'The decline of the Liberal Party in parliament and in the constituencies, 1914-1931', (Oxford D.Phil., 1982).
		D.M. Rees, 'The disintegration of the Liberal Party, 1931-3', (Wales M.A., 1980).
	www.users.dircon.co.uk /~dbrack/ldhg/theses.html (1835 words)

	Articles - Liberal Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Liberal Party was reduced from a majority to a minority government due, in part, to a scandal in which advertising agencies supporting the Liberal Party received grossly inflated commissions for their services.
		When the Liberals formed a majority government after the 1993 election with ChrÃ©tien at the helm, party unity was assured by placing Martin, whom ChrÃ©tien had defeated for the party leadership in 1990, in the crucial role of Minister of Finance.
		In April, 2005 David Kilgour, one of the party's two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party's Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry.
	www.bowling-balls.net /articles/Liberal_Party_of_Canada (5928 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Democratic Unionist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley.
		The party withdrew in protest when Sinn Féin, a republican party with ties to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was allowed to participate after the IRA ceasefire.
		In August 1997, David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (which is linked to the UVF), maintained in an interview that the DUP had tried to persuade unionist paramilitaries not to call ceasefires in 1994.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party (543 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party - Introduction
		On 22nd October 1904, a conference of Unionists in Belfast passed a resolution suggesting that the secretary of the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party be directed to summons a preliminary meeting in Belfast of Ulster Unionists, to discuss the advisability of forming a central Ulster Unionist Association.
		The Ulster Unionist Council was constituted formally at a meeting in the Ulster Hall, Belfast on 3rd March 1905 under the Chairmanship of Colonel James McCalmont, MP for East Antrim.
		At the Annual General Meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in the Assembly Hall, Belfast on 24th February 1921, Sir James Craig was unanimously elected leader of the Unionist Party in Ulster, having been proposed by Carson and seconded by Sir James H Stronge.
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	Unionist Party (Canada)
		The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by MPs who supported the Union government formed by Sir Robert Borden during World War I.
		Borden attempted to continue the Unionist Party after the war and when Arthur Meighen succeeded him in 1920, he renamed it, the National Liberal and Conservative Party in hopes of making the coalition permanent.
		The Unionists had never been officially a single party, and therefore lacked the structure of an official party.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/un/unionist_party__canada_.html (376 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a speech in July 1894 the Duke of Devonshire, chairing a meeting of the Liberal Unionist Association, reminded his associates that "every elector who voted for a Gladstonian candidate necessarily, and by the admission of the Gladstonian party itself, voted for Home Rule.
		It was, indeed, on account of the sense which many Liberals entertained of the dangers of Home Rule, and of the dislike with which a separatist policy was received by a great portion of the community, that the Liberal Unionist party came into existence" ("Liberal Unionist Association" [1894]).
		Guttsman's study of economic interests represented in the House of Commons in the period 1868-1910 indicates that Liberal Unionists are counted among the Conservatives in 1886-1910.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~a0fs000/earnest5c.html (342 words)

	Northern Ireland Political Parties
		The following parties were all entitled to stand in the 1996 Forum elections, the first time that any system of party registration was used in Northern Ireland, and in most cases have not been heard from since.
		Ulster Liberal Party: Sheelagh Murnaghan won a seat in the Queen's University constituency in 1961, and held it until the QUB seats were abolished in 1968.
		United Ulster Unionist Party: A party whose name was somewhat inappropriate, founded as it was in 1975 as a splinter group from Vanguard, itself a splinter group from the UUP.
	www.ark.ac.uk /elections/gparties.htm (2114 words)

	The Conservative Party
		The Conservative Party is the oldest political party in Europe.
		The Conservatives are traditionally the party of the upper and middle classes, of landowners and businessmen.
		The party is composed of two divergent tendencies, reflecting different views on social policies and on European integration.
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	Wikinfo \| Liberal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Generally speaking - and with the exception of the phrase liberal arts, where it means "studies that are liberating to the mind" - the liberal is that which departs from the traditional in some way, whereas the conservative is that which holds to it.
		Additionally, it is used in theology to refer to a belief system which departs from the traditional views of the religion in which it is found.
		Liberal can also mean a good (large) amount of something, such as "Spread a liberal amount of woodchips on the garden." See these articles:
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Liberal (203 words)

	The Conservative Party (UK) : UK Conservative party
		The Conservative Party (in Scotland Conservative and Unionist Party) is the largest right-wing political party in the United Kingdom.
		For most of the 20th century, the Conservative party was viewed as the "natural party of government" in the UK, effectively keeping the Labour Party from holding power for more than one term at a time.
		The party remains heavily influenced by the ideological legacy (Thatcherism) of Margaret Thatcher, party leader from February 1975 until her resignation on November 22, 1990.
	www.termsdefined.net /uk/uk-conservative-party.html (1185 words)

	COURTNEY, BARON - LoveToKnow Article on COURTNEY, BARON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He continued to represent the borough, and the district into which it was merged by the Reform Act of 1885, until 1900, when his attitude towards the South African War he was one of the foremost of the so-called Pro-Boer party-compelled his retirement.
		A Liberal Unionist, however, could only be elected by Conservative votes, and he had made himself objectionable to a large section.
		He gradually reverted to formal membership of the Liberal party, and in January 1906 unsuccessfully contested a division~ of Edinburgh as a supporter of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman at the general election.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COURTNEY_BARON.htm (2638 words)

	Wikinfo \| The Conservative Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Conservatives, in coalition with the Liberal Unionists and often called just "Unionists", remained in power for most of the next twenty years, until internal disputes over Joseph Chamberlain's ideas on protection in the early 20th century led to a severe defeat to the Liberals in the General Election of 1906.
		The Tories capitalised on the Winter of Discontent and the growing inflation rate, not to mention the humiliating bailout of the UK economy by the IMF in 1976, and won the 1979 general election with a majority of 43.
		As predicted, the general election was a win for the Labour Party, but perhaps the magnitude of the victory surprised everyone.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=The_Conservative_Party_(UK) (2446 words)

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		The party claims to be the oldest political party in Europe and the name "Conservative" was first used in 1830 although the word Tory (the Irish for "robber" or "savage") is often used as an alternative.
		With the party falling in the polls, failing in by-elections and facing internal splits over Europe, Major gambled in June 1995 by resigning as head of the party and forcing a leadership election.
		The party has secured a campaign war chest of between £20 and £40 million depending on whose estimates are to believed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /election97/background/parties/pacon.htm (1751 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		The party had a campaign war chest of between £20 and £40 million depending on whose estimates are to believed.
		In the end, the Referendum Party secured only 2.7% of the vote: it was not the force to shake the Conservatives that some had feared.
		The new leader promised a root and branch overhaul of the party's structure and constitution.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/parties/pacon.shtml (2024 words)

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		It was evident in the hearings held in the highlands, where the bulk of the adherents of the Unionist Party are found, that the organization of those present was semi-military.
		It was apparent that the Unionist cause enjoyed the favour of the Administrating authority in that region.
		At nearly all the gatherings of the Unionist Party a large number of priests were seen with church emblems and it was obvious that the clergy was using its influence over the laity.
	eri24.com /Article_384.htm (6576 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: Trimble will be well judged by history
		One was the unionist middle and professional class who came out to vote for the Agreement in the referendum, then retired to their leafy suburbs, denying him the support he needed to build a strong pro-Agreement assembly party.
		Posted by: George at May 10, 2005 10:25 PM Trimble and the UUP party of this time will be remembered for their efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland, but being let down by the government and republicans leading to anhilation at the polls by a DUP party, which was anti - catholic and racist.
		Unionists took great offence at this when all I meant was the technical definition which simply stated as a fact that not all residents accepted the full legitimacy of the state as part of the UK.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/05/trimble_will_be.php (9461 words)

	the day Joe Chamberlain was given his degree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Originally a member of Gladstone's government, Chamberlain was antagonistic to Gladstone's policy of Home Rule for Ireland; in 1886 Chamberlain resigned and formed the Liberal Unionist party (splitting Gladstone's Liberal party and ensuring both its defeat and the defeat of Home Rule).
		In 1895 the Liberal Unionists and Conservatives joined forces under Lord Salisbury, and Chamberlain became secretary for the colonies (1895-1903).
		The protest meeting was interrupted by the police, but the protesters followed their leaders across the Liffey to College Green, where the demonstration continued with appropriate police harassment.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /rickard/Hypermedia/HTML/Chamberlain.html (402 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Hermon 'wants a more liberal UUP'
		The sole surviving Ulster Unionist MP has not yet decided whether she will stand for the party leadership.
		Lady Sylvia Hermon told the BBC she wanted to see her party moving in a "more liberal direction", putting clear water between itself and the DUP.
		The North Down MP said she was not impressed by the idea that the party could be led by a three-strong team.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/4538319.stm (228 words)

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