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	Scottish Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scottish Party initially acted more as a think-tank than an active political party, but received overtures from the founder of the NPS, John MacCormick to merge with the NPS to unify the elements of the Scottish Nationalist movement.
		The party's candidate for the November 1933 by-election in Kilmarnock received NPS backing, and this co-operation was firmed up by the merger of the two parties in 1934 to become the Scottish National Party.
		On January 1, 2004 a former SNP parliamentary candidate and a party activist in the Shetland Islands Brian Nugent announced that he was forming his own pro-independence party, the Scottish Party in response to what he perceived to be an unquestioning acceptance of the European Union by the SNP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Party (283 words)

	Scottish National Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SNP was formed in 1934 from the merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party.
		Some attempted to cement this at the 1975 SNP conference where a motion to change the name of the party to the Scottish National Party (Social Democrats) was due to be debated.
		However, the party's MPs who in the main represented seats won from the Conservatives were less keen to have the SNP viewed as a left-of-centre alternative to Labour, for fear of losing their seats back to the Conservatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_National_Party (2043 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party fosters nationalist divisions
		Scottish Militant Labour is seeking to rise to prominence on this wave of political disorientation.
		Scottish Militant Labour insisted the new party be launched in time to stand candidates in elections to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999.
		Scottish Militant Labour are indifferent to the central task of overcoming the political influence of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois forces over the working class.
	www.wsws.org /polemics/1998/oct1998/ssp-o24.shtml (2564 words)

	Guide to Political Records in the UK (PPPAG UK)
		The archives of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) are a major resource for the study of labour history during the late 19th and early 20th centuries containing not only the records of the ILP but also publications produced by other labour organisations, both in Britain and overseas throughout that period.
		Amongst the latter are:- the papers of Herbert Samuel (Chairman of the Liberal Party Organisation, 1927-29, Chairman of the Liberal Parliamentary Party, 1931-35) and of John Colin Campbell Davidson (Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party, 1927-30).
		The papers comprising the collection come largely from the party's headquarters in Cowley Street, London, and trace the history of the SDP from its birth in the Council for Social Democracy and "the Limehouse Declaration" of 1981 to its merger with the Liberal Party in 1988.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /pppag-records.htm (3736 words)

	::Key dates for the SNP::
		The SNP claimed that the oil was Scottish and that the drain in money to London was all but theft of another nation’s capital.
		The SNP claimed that the wealth that Scotland would derive from oil would enable the nation to have a successful independent economy that was not dependent on London.
		The Scottish Tories had nothing to do with it and the SNP refused to take part as they felt that devolution was not want they wanted which was full independence from Westminster.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /key_dates_for_the_snp.htm (605 words)

	US empire after Iraq: analysis and perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nothing prepared the political commentators for the shock of witnessing the big four parties lose one and a quarter million votes across the two ballots; or for the lurch to the left across Scotland and the election of seventeen radical anti-establishment MSPs.
		The two parties seen as the most consistent and principled anti-war parties, the SSP and the Greens, were the two parties which made the most spectacular advances in this election.
		Tommy's victory over the Scottish Executive on warrant sales and his success in forcing free meals onto the centre stage of the Scottish Parliament boosted the credibility of the SSP immeasurably.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue24/McCombes.htm (2815 words)

	Southern Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Southern Party is being officially registered with the Secretary of State's offices of each of the 16 Southern States.
		While the Southern party does not function as a sectarian party and requires no religious tests, it undoubtedly does affirm the sovereignty of God in the universe and supports policies safeguarding the free exercise and expression of the Christian faith both in the public and private spheres.
		This is a party designed to secure genuine sovereignty and a renascent sense of nationalism, organized around the principles of State sovereignty, cultural preservation, peace through strength, the abolition of the welfare state and prosperity through free enterprise.
	www.south-art.com /Southern_Party.htm (2948 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Issues \| Profile: Scottish National Party
		It held five Westminster seats, but was the only Scottish party to lose a seat when the Tories took the Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.
		The party was established in 1934 and won its first Westminster seat in a by-election in 1945.
		At the 2001 General Election, SNP leader John Swinney said the party had performed well and delivered a clear message to voters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/basics/4360811.stm (485 words)

	Engendering Change in Scotland \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		Scottish women were invisible in official statistics, so our priority was to conduct a Gender Audit.
		When the Labour Party won the UK elections in 1997 with a manifesto including a referendum for Scottish devolution, the hope of a Scottish Parliament became an achievable goal.
		Scottish campaigning resulted in the number of Scottish women MPs sent to Westminster increasing from 5 to 12 out of 72 in 1997.
	www.iheu.org /node/997 (914 words)

	McConnell: Tories are our opposition - [Sunday Herald]
		Labour party thinking is that it can expect at least two of the seven MEP seats at the election, and in its bid to secure a third seat it has to avoid votes shifting to the Tories.
		The SNP hit back at the intended slight, with a spokesman saying it remains the main opposition party, tackling issues such as fisheries and top-up fees.
		The Labour party faces the biggest problems in fitting their many MPs into a reduced number of seats, with a notional loss of 10 out of the 56 seats they won in 2001.
	www.sundayherald.com /39703 (705 words)

	Marxist Bulletin: New Scotland, New Wales
		Nationalist politics must always be understood in the context of how it affects the class interests of the people who experience it.
		Our party must always put forward policies that defend the most exploited sections of society, but what we also want is a strong self-organised working class capable of taking the running of society into our own hands.
		This could mean that the bourgeoisie in Wales is even closer to their English counterparts than the Scottish bourgeoisie is, and in fact the voting patterns reflected this with ‘no’ votes significantly stronger in the parts of Wales geographically nearest to England.
	www.bolshevik.org /mb/4national.htm (1452 words)

	Scottish Nationalist Party leader Alex Salmond announces sudden resignation
		His statements were motivated by the SNP's orientation to Europe, where several parties had spoken against the NATO bombing because they viewed it as an attempt by the US to assert its military dominance over the continent.
		In the end, the SNP won a mere 35 of 129 seats—a poor result for a party that only a few months previously had been 14 percent ahead of Labour in the polls.
		This includes Ian Blackford, the former SNP treasurer who is currently suspended from membership and is embroiled in a dispute with the party leadership over loans he made during the 1999 election campaign.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jul2000/scot-j25.shtml (797 words)

	CNN - Scotland's modern-day 'Braveheart' fights with statistics - March 14, 1999
		Polls show his party neck-and-neck with Britain's ruling Labour party ahead of the vote, but the SNP is unlikely to win an outright majority needed to push through a referendum on separation.
		Because inflation in the Scottish economy is not as severe as it is in the economy of the southeast of England," he said.
		The left-of-center SNP is trying to woo Scottish business by supporting a corporate tax cut, but many industrialists are not biting, worried independence will mean less investment and a tougher time selling to England, by far its biggest market.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9903/14/britain.scotland (645 words)

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		He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and was elected to Parliament for the Labour party in 1945.
		Harold Wilson, and he succeeded Wilson as party leader and prime minister in 1976.
		Inheriting a severely troubled economy and a slender majority in Parliament, he depended on support from the Liberals and (after 1978) the Scottish Nationalist party (SNP).
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ca012000.a (160 words)

	Labour councillor in Brighton defects to SNP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Later, having attended his first meeting as a fledgling SNP councillor, Mr McGinley said he had been booed by the Labour Party and cheered by the Tories.
		An SNP spokesman in Edinburgh said: "Clearly, we welcome Mr McGinley and hope the people of Brighton and Hove have a warm and friendly attitude to his change of heart.
		Party leader Alex Salmond is to make a formal protest to the Scottish Office over the role of the officials, who are supposed to be strictly impartial.
	www.alba.org.uk /localby/mcginley.html (826 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| PARTIES \| Scottish National Party
		The then deputy leader John Swinney was seen to represent those who view the Scottish Parliament as the cornerstone of the party's progression towards independence.
		The SNP, which last year reported an overdraft of £400,000, is considering a challenge to this ban under the Human Rights Convention.
		Under its party slogan "We stand for Scotland", the SNP states that while Scotland is a "rich country" it is not a "rich society".
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/parties/newsid_1179000/1179151.stm (513 words)

	Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They managed to get no Scottish seats at all at Westminster in the last UK election, and regardless of anyone's politics, it must be welcomed that their opinions have a voice in the new Parliament.
		This party can be seen as the old socialist Labour party as opposed to the "New" one, and is an interesting development in Scotland and one worth watching in the future.
		The SNP have always wanted complete Independence for Scotland, and it is their firm policy to introduce a Referendum as soon as possible, to allow the Scottish people our democratic say.
	www.scotland.tk /politics (1210 words)

	Scottish Devolution: A Historical and Political Analysis
		The SNP dedicated itself to the idea of radical constitutional change for Scotland in the form of independence, and encouraged the growth of Scottish nationalism.
		"Alex Salmond, the SNP leader, persuaded his party to accept Labour’s policy of devolution by explaining that supporting the ‘Yes’ campaign in the Referendum of 1997 was simply a means of providing the building blocks for independence."<15> The future of Scotland, though, remains in the hands of the electorate.
		As Archie Brown theorized in his article, Asymmetrical Devolution: the Scottish Case, "membership in the European Union means that a break with England would not be absolute."<16> With Scotland’s striving economy and claims to the North Sea oil, the EU may be the larger entity needed to replace the UK and give Scotland stability.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1998-9/Rivera.htm (3340 words)

	Blair to give Scottish party its head
		As the latest opinion polls north of the border continued to show strong support for the Scottish Nationalist Party, the Prime Minister arrived in Glasgow to bolster the morale of Labour's troops for the May 6 election campaign.
		The party's annual Scottish conference has been transformed into a pre-election rally at which Mr Blair is expected to step up the intensity of Labour's attacks on the risks of separatism.
		Although Labour took comfort from findings that the party's lead over the nationalists had risen since last month, these were contradicted by another poll for the Daily Record which showed that the nationalists were on course to be the largest party in the Holyrood parliament.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/03/05/nscot05.html (521 words)

	Britain: Open Letter to SSP Comrades
		The Annual Conference of the SSP (Scottish Socialist Party) meets this weekend to discuss a draft manifesto for the European elections and debate other issues against the background of the recent events in Spain.
		Our opposition to the SNP is not only about their tail-ending of business, which is inevitable in this epoch, but the fact that the SNP is a petty bourgeois nationalist party that falsely parades Scottish independence as a solution to our problems and seeks to divide the working class on nationalist lines.
		The struggle of the Scottish working class for emancipation is inseparable from the struggle of the rest of the British working class, and the working class internationally for that matter.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/247/29 (4015 words)

	Jim Higgins: Doon in Troon (1976)
		For years the Labour Party was able to dismiss nationalism as the eccentric pursuit of minds befogged by Celtic vapours.
		The Scottish Labour Executive majority, and probably a majority of the members, objected to it as a concession to the SNP and an offence against internationalism.
		In private, or in their cups, or both, leading members of the Scottish party and a large number of rank and file delegates will confess their lack of faith in devolution.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1976/04/doontroon.htm (1476 words)

	Politics UK - Realise your Dreams
		in the UK It is descended from the Tory Party
		The party was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short lived Social Democratic Party.
		") is a left-of-centre (describing itself as socialist "and proud of it") Welsh nationalist party.
	www.politicsuk.net /parties.html (123 words)

	British National Party - Scottish newspaper promotes racial & sectarian hatred
		The BNP as a political party and a social movement rejects all forms of sectarianism between the indigenous Folk communities of these Islands and seeks to promote tolerance and reconciliation between the indigenous folk communities.
		To be a member of a legitimate political party that organises in Scotland and to be a member of his local church.
		The recent tribunal on the Arthur Redfearn case stated that to act in a way that discriminates against the BNP and its members is racism as the party is protected under the Race Relations Act 1967 due to its ethnic membership.
	www.bnp.org.uk /news_detail.php?newsId=227 (773 words)

	Home Page — SNP - Scottish National Party
		SNP depute leader Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans for a £100m funding package.
		Votes were cast in a postal ballot of SNP members and released on Friday.
		The SNP's youth wing has launched a new campaign to involve young people in politics with a national text referendum on whether Scotland should be independent.
	www.snp.org (257 words)

	The Scotsman - Politics - 'Keep Lib Dems out' call
		Mr Clarke, whose speech represented a clear, pre-election rally to the party conference in Blackpool, urged the party to win enough seats in May next year to deprive the Liberal Democrats of a share of power.
		Mr Clarke deliberately used the term "Scottish Nationalist Party" instead of "Scottish National Party" - a term pioneered by Mr McConnell which is certain to be used by every Labour candidate across the country in the run-up to the elections next May.
		Mr Clarke said: "The Scottish Nationalist Party is increasingly marginal with their utterly uninspiring leadership.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1098222002 (339 words)

	US empire after Iraq: analysis and perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is argued that the Scottish Green Party may have performed better because they focused solely on the second vote.
		In addition, the national question in Scotland and the partial pr [proportional representation] system for the Holyrood elections are also significant background factors to be borne in mind.
		The party has democratically developed appropriate strategy and tactics applicable to the situation in Scotland and successfully implemented this through a disciplined and effective organisation.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue24/Green.htm (2650 words)

	Blow for ruling British Labour Party in by-election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Liberals, Britain's third-biggest party, took the constituency of Dunfermline and West Fife, near Edinburgh, from Labour, securing an impressive majority of 12,391 votes in the by-election late Thursday.
		As results emerged early Friday, it became clear that Labour was beaten into second place in what used to be a stronghold for the party.
		The Scottish Nationalist Party, SNP, came third and the Conservatives, led nationally by newcomer David Cameron, lost votes and landed in fourth position.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /uk/printer_1096450.php (243 words)

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