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	Official Opposition (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, or the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom is the largest opposition party in the House of Commons.
		The role of the Opposition is to examine the government's proposals for new laws, scrutinise its policies and hold Ministers to account and for this purpose, maintains a Shadow Cabinet.
		Of these days, 17 are at the disposal of the Leader of the Opposition and 3 can be used by the leader of the smaller opposition party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Official_Opposition_(UK) (630 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The official party colours are red, white and blue, though blue is most generally associated with the party in contrast to the red of the Labour Party.
		Many commentators believe that their failures in UK politics from 1997 were partly the result of continued internal tension between Europhiles (such as Kenneth Clarke and Michael Heseltine) and Eurosceptics (such as John Redwood and William Hague).
		Following the election of David Cameron as leader, the party has increasingly focussed on environmental policies, a stance which has drawn fire from other parties and some sections of the media who perceive this change in focus to be merely cosmetic in nature, given the Party's traditional focus on economic growth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) (5150 words)

	United Kingdom - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the April 2001 UK Census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
		The UK was, with the US, one of the two main contributors in the development of rock and roll, and the UK has provided some of the most famous rock stars, including The Beatles, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and many others.
		The UK was at the forefront of punk rock music in the 1970s with bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash, and the subsequent rebirth of heavy metal with bands such as Motörhead and Iron Maiden.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/United_Kingdom (4995 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| Opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her Majesty's Opposition is usually the largest minority party in the House of Commons.
		The opposition sits to the Speaker's left in the Commons chamber, facing the government benches.
		In the same way that the Prime Minister forms a cabinet, so the leader of the opposition forms a shadow cabinet, which acts as a 'government-in-waiting' and consists of the leading figures from the official opposition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/politics/m-o/82593.stm (169 words)

	Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Official Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet (normally referred to simply as 'The Shadow Cabinet') is, in British parliamentary practice, a group of members from Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition whose job it is to scrutinise their opposite numbers in government and come up with alternative policies.
		Since the Conservative Party has been, since 1997, Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, its leadership therefore forms the current Shadow Cabinet.
		Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords- The Rt Hon The Lord Cope of Berkeley
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_(UK) (447 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Conservative Party (UK)
		However, it is widely held that their present weakened position in UK politics is at least partly the result of continued internal tension between supporters of the European Union and Eurosceptics.
		A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what is described in the British press as "sleaze": a perception that the Conservatives were associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.
		The name 'Conservative' was suggested by John Wilson Croker in the 1830s and later officially adopted, but the party is still often referred to as the 'Tory Party' (not least because newspaper editors find it a convenient shorthand when space is limited).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) (2137 words)

	ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		Welshman Ncube, general-secretary of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said it was hard to understand why African states were taking a softer approach on Mugabe than Western powers and people from within the troubled country itself.
		The opposition blames Mugabe for plunging the southern African country into its worst economic crisis since independence in 1980, with 70 percent unemployment and acute shortages of food, gasoline and medicine.
		Ncube and another senior opposition official were acquitted in July of treason.
	www.zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=7727 (319 words)

	THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND WALES
		The UK is also one of the more populous member states of the European Union and a founding partner of both the UN (with a permanent seat on the) and NATO.
		The UK was, with the US, one of the two main contributors in the development of rock and roll, and the UK has provided some of the most famous rock stars, including The Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, The Who, and many others.
		The UK is also at the forefront of electronica, with British artists such as The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Nitin Sawhney and Lamb at the cutting edge.
	www.speedace.info /united_kingdom_england_scotland_wales_northern_ireland.htm (4133 words)

	UK: Human rights: a broken promise - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amnesty International expressed deep concern at what appeared to be the UK authorities’ continued disregard of the recent serious psychiatric history of these individuals and the reasons for that history, and at the consequences which their renewed detention would almost inevitably have on their mental and physical health.
		The UK government asserts that these agreements relieve it of its domestic and international human rights law obligations not to forcibly remove these men because the receiving countries would provide guarantees that the men would not be tortured or otherwise ill-treated upon being forcibly returned.
		For several years, the UK government has been looking for ways to reinterpret or restrict its human rights obligations so as to permit it to deport people it believes are a threat to national security, notwithstanding the fact that there is a real risk of serious human rights abuses upon their deportation.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engeur450042006 (17337 words)

	U.S. Ghost Ships Arouse Official European Opposition
		Friends of the Earth UK is urging that the "toxic ghost ships heading for England to be turned back to the USA" after the UK Environment Agency made it clear that they should not be dealt with in a wet dock.
		Able UK does not have planning permission to build a dry dock to dispose of these boats, and it won't be allowed to deal with them in a wet dock.
		This regulation, binding under EU law, could be breached if Able UK were to dismantle the ships in wet dock having failed to secure planning permission for a dry dock facility, which Dr. Lucas and environmental organizations argue would be a necessary to meet the requirement for environmentally sound management.
	ens-newswire.com /ens/oct2003/2003-10-14-03.asp (1269 words)

	Media as Official Opposition
		I only caught part of it but Jon's comment on the implications of Hutton for the media was interesting; roughly what he said was that after the collapse of the Tory Party, and with the political arena essentially existing in an ideological void, the media had become extremely negative.
		In effect the media became the opposition to the government rather than simply being a neutral commentator.
		He, like the lady on Newsnight last night who used to be a BBC executive, seemed to be pretty upbeat about the opportunities for the beeb and the news media as a whole to smarten up their act in the wake of Hutton.
	www.anoasis.co.uk /archives/000398.html (199 words)

	About United Kingdom - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The UK is also one of the largest member states of the European Union and a founding partner of both the UN (with a permanent seat on the Security Council) and NATO.
		English is the main language and the de facto official language, spoken monolingually by an estimated 95% of the UK population.
		The UK was, with the US, one of the two main countries in the development of rock and roll, and has provided bands including The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Status Quo, the Sex Pistols, the Manic Street Preachers, Oasis, Radiohead and Coldplay.
	www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/United-Kingdom.html (1510 words)

	Common Ground Common Sense
		Singapore exemplifies a case of a numerically weak opposition; South Africa under the apartheid regime maintained a long-term imbalance in the parliament.
		By their very presence in the debating chamber, parliamentary oppositions recognise the legitimacy of the system of politics, and thus may share many of the views of the government.
		The title of "Official Opposition" usually goes to the largest of the parties sitting in Opposition with it's leader being given the title Leader of the Opposition.
	www.commongroundcommonsense.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=4078 (1638 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However by the time of the 2001 general election, he had changed focus to concentrate on a more hard-right agenda; Europe, asylum seekers and tax cuts whilst declaring that only the Conservative Party could "Save the Pound".
		Harold Macmillan demonstrated a similarly close relationship with the following Democratic administration of J.F. Though the US-British relationship in foreign affairs has often been termed a 'Special Relationship', a term coined by Winston Churchill, this has often been observed most clearly where leaders in each country are of a similar political stripe.
		At the end of the count, the Conservatives gained 316 new Councillors, the Liberal Democrats gained only two and Labour lost a total of 319.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Conservative_Party_(UK) (3980 words)

	David Miller \| Media Wrongs against Humanity: Witness Statement Including Evidence of Media Wrongs
		The mainstream news media in the US and UK were overwhelmingly complicit in promoting the credibility of official sources and intelligence 'information' on the alleged threat posed by Iraq.
		Second the seeming inability even to attribute official statement s so that they are reported not as the view of a particular official or government, but simply as facts.
		For example while US and UK opinion routinely prefers spending on health and education over the military and while more people favor cutting military expenditure than raising it, there was also a clear pattern of majority support for the invasion of Iraq in the US.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_WTI062405X.shtml (3713 words)

	DA becomes official opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The liberal Democratic Party replaced the New National Party as official opposition in the 1999 election but after the merger with the NNP in 2000, the two parties became the Democratic Alliance.
		Now with the official "crossing" period in place allowing MPs to shift parties without losing their seats, the Democratic Party MPs have signed up to be DA MPs.
		Even if they were not to "join up" the DA as the second largest party in the National Assembly is secure in its position as official opposition.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,6935,2-7-12_1339425,00.html (309 words)

	Opposition: Glossary item: Glossary (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		They are called the Opposition because they sit on the benches opposite the Government in the House of Commons Chamber.
		The largest of the Opposition parties is known as Her Majesty's Opposition.
		The role of the Official Opposition is to question and scrutinise the work of Government.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /glossary?gl=29 (105 words)

	Politics \| Kennedy calls for end to official opposition
		Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, has asked the prime minister to abolish role of an official opposition, placing his party on equal footing in the Commons with the Conservatives.
		It adds: "The concept of a privileged 'official' opposition - which dominates Commons procedure and results in an additional £500,000 payment of taxpayer's money to one party - should be abandoned as an anachronism."
		Labour and the Liberal Democrats agreed a formula on proportional representation before the general election, which would allow for a review of voting systems in the light of the 2003 elections to the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4259454-107981,00.html (265 words)

	SpiritHit News \| Europe \| Muslims 'Betrayed' By UK Gov't Over Religious Hatred
		Labor leaders in the House of Commons and House of Lords announced this week that the government had decided to drop the religious hatred proposal, which had run into strong opposition from opposition parties in the House of Lords.
		The religious incitement proposal drew the opposition of a coalition of lawyers, lawmakers, human rights campaigners, religious groups, journalists and secularists, and members of parliament were lobbied.
		Opposition to the bill was coordinated by the Barnabas Fund, a human rights group supporting Christian minorities in Islamic societies.
	news.spirithit.com /index/europe/more/muslims_betrayed_by_uk_govt_over_religious_hatred (1061 words)

	Muslims and Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Home Office officials say they were against the measure to outlaw the group that expressly opposes the use of violence but were over-ruled by Downing Street.
		The UK played a very large part in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights and was the first country to sign the Convention.
		Between them, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition are clearly signalling a confrontation with the judiciary over individual rights in the terrorist age.
	www.eurolegal.org /isterbrit/isterbrit204.htm (14172 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Bush runs out of credit
		This is the kind of point oppositions are meant to pick up.
		In 2000 a plurality of Americans voted to put into the White House a man whose knowledge of, and commitment to, environmental issues was unparalleled in presidential history.
		The leadership of the opposition appears to have reverted to the president's father, acting through his surrogates.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,785113,00.html (814 words)

	palindroma Milf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The UK is often incorrectly referred to by those unfamiliar with it as 'England'.
		It is one of the most populous states of the European Union and is a founding partner of the UN (holding a permanent seat on the Security Council) and NATO.
		The United Kingdom, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, is often credited with being the nation that "created the modern world"[citation needed], by playing a leading role in developing Western ideas of property, capitalism and parliamentary democracy—to say nothing of its part in advancing world literature, science and technology.
	palindroma.blogspot.com (1980 words)

	WebCab Library : Miscelaneous : Small UK Encyclopedia
		The first union of separate states in the British Isles took place in 1301, when Wales was joined to England by the creation of the title of prince of Wales for the son of Edward I of England.
		The name Great Britain was officially adopted for this union; when Ireland was added to Great Britain by the Act of Union of 1801, the title United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was introduced.
		Of the remaining parties, the one with the largest number of seats becomes the official opposition.
	www.webcabcomponents.com /library/misc/uk/uk2.html (4283 words)

	Leader_of_the_Opposition - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government.
		The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative Prime Minister to the present incumbent, and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Opposition Front Bench.
		In many Commonwealth Realm monarchies, the full title is Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /information.asp?k=Leader_of_the_Opposition (126 words)

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