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	Defend Council Housing (DCH) - campaign against privatisation of council housing
		MPs in the House of Commons Council Housing group are calling on tenants, trade unionists, councillors and others to come to Parliament on January 22 to lobby MPs and provide evidence to the group's inquiry which will take oral evidence on the day.
		Download letter to supporters and model motion and order copies of the new DCH newspaper to advertise the event and help organise a broad based delegation from your area to take part.
		Tenants packed a room at Parliament on Feb 20 to launch the new pamphlet 'Dear Gordon' Invest in decent, affordable, secure and accountable council housing challenging Gordon Brown to change government policy.
	www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk /dch (2076 words)

	constituency - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Members of the House of Commons are elected from geographical constituencies determined by population, and each MP generally represents a...
		A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty.
		Sedgefield is a constituency represented on the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
	encarta.msn.com /constituency.html (265 words)

	Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency) Information
		Sedgefield is situated in County Durham, an area renowned for its mining history and very strong affiliation to the Labour Party.
		Bishop Middleham and Cornforth, Broom, Chilton, Ferryhill, Fishburn and Old Trimdon, Greenfield Middridge, Neville and Simpasture, New Trimdon and Trimdon Grange, Sedgefield, Shafto St Marys, West and Woodham from Sedgefield.
		Sedgefield attracts much attention as the current MP is Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Sedgefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (370 words)

	Liberal Democrat MEPs in the European Parliament
		The Leader of the UK Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament (LDEPP) is Andrew Duff MEP.
		The delegation sits in the European Parliament with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) which is the third largest political group.
		The European Parliament was debating the outcome of the summit last weekend with German Chancellor and current EU President, Angela Merkel.
	www.libdemmeps.org.uk (680 words)

	Welcome to my new website
		Parliament is in recess from 26th July to 8th October 2007
		76% of the UK said they were very satisfied with Gordon Brown's handling of the FandM outbreak in Surrey.
		The Tories were relegated to third place in both by-elections held on Thursday in Ealing Southall and Sedgefield completing the worst sixty days Cameron has experienced as Leader of the Opposition.
	www.derekwyatt.co.uk (718 words)

	UK Youth Parliament : Making Our Mark
		Five Members of the UK Youth Parliament were today given the opportunity to question Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chancellor Gordon Brown and Environment Secretary David Miliband on the government’s draft Climate Change Bill at 10 Downing Street.
		Ian Geldard, who lives in Tony Blair’s Sedgefield constituency, directly questioned the Prime Minister on the government’s plans to improve public transport provision.
		Other questions focused upon the provision of solar panels for schools and whether companies would be more tempted to relocate abroad if the UK introduces more stringent carbon emission targets.
	www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk /179081/206567.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (300 words)

	Defend Council Housing (DCH) - campaign against privatisation of council housing
		Get Constituency Labour Parties to submit our Contemporary Motion (updated 16 Aug) to September's Labour Party Conference to keep up the pressure.
		Tenants packed a room at Parliament on Feb 20 to launch the new pamphlet 'Dear Gordon' Invest in decent, affordable, secure and accountable council housing challenging Gordon Brown to change government policy.
		More than 1300 tenants, trade unionists and councillors, from over 90 areas across the UK, took part in the Lobby of Parliament and rally on Feb 8 (web report and bulletin).
	www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk (1715 words)

	Reg Keys for Sedgefield: UK Election 2005: Frederick Forsyth Speaking at The War Memorial in Sedgefield, April 30th ...
		And this is such an occasion, because the people of this constituency on Thursday morning will go into a booth where they will be for a few seconds completely alone.
		Reg Keys is a decent man, he's a truthful man and an honourable man. He is much more worthy to represent the people of this constituency than the one who presumes that they're bought and paid-for anyway and therefore do not need even to be visited.
		I was born and raised in the County of Kent and this is the County of Durham, the land of the prince-bishops, a long way North.
	www.keysforsedgefield.org.uk /Frederick_Forsyth_Speaking.html (2011 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Sedgefield honours 'burgess' Blair
		Sedgefield town is to make Tony Blair a burgess - allowing him to drive sheep over the village green.
		The parliamentary constituency itself is a sprawling mixture of former mining villages and new towns at the edge of the Durham coalfield.
		But apart from its National Hunt racecourse, Sedgefield is probably best known for the annual Shrove Tuesday "ball game", which began several centuries ago as a contest between the farmers and tradesman of the village.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2153210.stm (484 words)

	UK troops 'to stay in Iraq until 2006'
		US-led forces failed to prepare sufficiently for a deadly "insurgency" that flared up in the aftermath of the war, launched in March 2003, a report by the House of Commons' Defence Committee said.
		In a wide-ranging assessment of operations in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, members of parliament heard evidence from experts and some even travelled twice to the country to see the situation for themselves.
		One father who lost his son, a military policeman, in Iraq has even pledged to stand against the prime minister in his northern constituency of Sedgefield due to his anger about the continuing bloodshed in Iraq.
	www.infowars.com /articles/iraq/uk_troops_stay_until_2006.htm (589 words)

	UK PMO: Blair on UK Policy Toward Iraq - 9-3-02
		In particular I am pleased that so many of you have been able to see what is happening in the constituency at the moment and see some of the changes that are being made.
		Of course there are real problems and challenges in the region, but those of you who were with me this morning saw both the combination of technology and new policing in the local constituency, the new community hospital in place of the old one.
		We recently did a poll of 1,000 people in your constituency, or nearly 1,000 people, and 64% thought you would be wrong to support an attack on Iraq, just 17 thought you would be correct.
	www.iraqwatch.org /government/UK/PMO/uk-pmo-blair-090302.htm (9598 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 24 Jul 1996 (pt 9)
		Members are aware of the Liberal Democrats' proposals for a federal structure, in which Scotland would have a Parliament in Edinburgh, the English regions would have regional Parliaments and Wales and Northern Ireland would have their Parliaments.
		Member for Sedgefield knows that the package that Labour is proposing is unsustainable and that he understands that it is unsaleable in England.
		Mountain who lives in my constituency went to buy a ticket only to find that her car had been clamped when she returned to it.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo960724/debtext/60724-09.htm (1788 words)

	Blair Says UK Has Proof Of Saddam's Weapons
		Some 160 members of Parliament, many of them from Blair's own ruling Labor Party, have signed a motion opposing British involvement in any military campaign against Iraq, and as many as three members of his Cabinet are said poised to quit over the action.
		Meanwhile, a series of public opinion polls during the past week have shown that from 52 percent to 71 percent of Britons are against a war on Iraq.
		Even in Sedgefield, Blair's own constituency in northeast England where he had Tuesday's news conference, a regional newspaper survey showed 54 percent of voters opposed his stance on Iraq.
	www.rense.com /general28/proof.htm (753 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 29 Jun 2005 (pt 2) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		My Glenrothes constituent Ian McCaulay visited Darfur recently to make a voluntary contribution to education there, and he has suggested that training teachers in Sudan would be of particular benefit.
		Friend's constituents have lost their jobs at Bridgend, and he is absolutely right in saying that it is our responsibility as a Government to put in place a proper package of support and help.
		On 8 June, he said that the UK rebate would remain and would not be negotiated away—"Period." Two days later he said everything was open to debate as long as there was a fundamental review of the common agricultural policy.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050629/debtext/50629-02.htm (4452 words)

	Missile Defense: UK Peace Activist To Run against Blair -- 05/10/2001
		UK peace campaigners also fear that by participating in a missile defense system, Britain will make itself a more likely target for missile attack.
		"Sedgefield constituents have the right to be treated with much more respect by their standing member of parliament.
		Sedgefield is a constituency in Durham county in north-east England, neighboring Yorkshire, where Menwith Hill and Fylingdales are located.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Try=No&Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200105\For20010510b.html (899 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Robert R. Thompson \| Politics and Culture/East and West \| Tony Blair's Tenuous Trifecta
		Brady, was, as they say in the UK, "spot on" in her thoughts on moral issues in the UK election: they had little impact.
		In the UK, in each constituency, the votes are counted, and then all the candidates, from all the parties, must stand in a line, face the crowd and the cameras and hear their vote totals announced, whether it's 20,000 or 200.
		UK voters are more firmly attached to their political parties of choice.
	popmatters.com /columns/thompson/050531.shtml (2533 words)

	Hotels in Sedgefield Durham accommodation - Sedgefield hotels accommodation in Durham UK
		From Sedgefield you are well placed to explore Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and Durham with their coastal fortresses, magnificent cities, forests and valleys, pretty villages, wide empty beaches and the evocative ruins of Hadrian's Wall.
		Sedgefield is a town in the borough of Sedgefield in County Durham.
		Sedgefield Racecourse, Stockton-on-Tees TS21 2HW Tel: 01740 621925 Hosting 20 Jump race meetings and spanning 11 months of the year, Sedgefield Racecourse is one of Britain’s most popular racecourses.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /sedgefieldhotels.html (543 words)

	CNN - Labour grabs majority; John Major concedes - 1997 UK Elections
		CNN U.K. Labour grabs majority; John Major concedes
		As Blair thanked his constituency in Sedgefield, Blair spoke of the country's future and Labour's "vision of renewal." But he stopped short of a full-scale acceptance speech.
		Blair won his seat with 33,526 votes to the Conservative candidate's 8,383; the voter swing from Conservative to Labour in Sedgefield, a solid Labour seat, was 9.6 percent, according to the initial count.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/01/brit.election.9p (727 words)

	CNN.com - Blair: Labour on verge of victory - June 7, 2001
		SEDGEFIELD, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair says his Labour Party is heading for an historic landslide victory in the UK election.
		Blair, speaking as he was comfortably re-elected to his Sedgefield seat, in north east England, said: "I would like to thank the British people.
		Labour came to power in the UK in 1997, winning a 179-seat majority with 43 percent of the vote, with the Conservatives taking 31 percent.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/07/uk.election.02 (903 words)

	CNN.com - Soldier father bid to unseat Blair - Apr 21, 2005
		The key plank of his campaign for the May 5 election is the accusation that the prime minister misled the British parliament over the reasons for going to war.
		Derek Cattell, a Sedgefield Labour Party member for 30 years until he switched his allegiance to the Keys campaign, claimed women voters were particularly moved by the candidate.
		The Sedgefield Constituency has received a total of 15 nominations for the election on May 5.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/04/21/uk.blair.opponent (714 words)

	Newsvine - uk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A pregnant 17 year old woman was found murdered in her home in Greater Manchester, UK on Friday.
		Media outlets around the world assess the decade-long rule of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, with many applauding his achievements but condemning his decision to take part in the war on Iraq.
		He made the announcement in a speech to party activists in his Sedgefield constituency, after earlier briefing the Cabinet on his plans.
	www.newsvine.com /uk (1068 words)

	The Day of Reckoning for New Labour?
		Lib-Dems represent constituencies throughout the UK and control numerous local councils.
		Although it is unlikely the Lib-Dems will win enough seats on 5 May to replace the Conservatives as the main opposition party, Labour and Conservatives may lose seats to Lib-Dem candidates.
		With Sedgefield's location in the strong Labour northeast, defeat for the party leader seems quite a remote prospect, but there is much hostility and antagonism towards Mr.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/international_trade_politics/115728 (498 words)

	Red Pepper's Election Blues
		Reg Keys came to Sedgefield to unseat Tony Blair for the lies that took his son and other British soldiers to war and tragic death in Iraq.
		Up in Sedgefield, we had 50 people on any one day knocking the doors, canvassing and leafleting, people who had come from all over the country at their own expense.
		Certainly, squeezing the electoral preferences of the nation into a winner-takes-all model of single member, single vote constituencies does make the electoral rise of far right (as well as far left) more difficult: it is hard to imagine an equivalent to Le Pen breaking through in Britain as has happened in France.
	redpepper.blogs.com /election (3343 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		Tom Wright, the (Anglican) bishop of Durham, in whose diocese Blair's Sedgefield constituency falls, sent a message of support to activists protesting against the war in Iraq.
		His intervention was seen as boosting the prospects of a non-political candidate, Reg Keys, in the election.
		Brian Sedgemore, a retiring member of parliament for Blair's Labour Party, on Tuesday announced his switch to the opposition Liberal Democrats.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_61616_ENG_HTM.htm (365 words)

	EUobserver.com
		Speaking to Labour party activists in his Sedgefield constituency on Thursday (10 May), Mr Blair said that a decade as the British leader had been "long enough" for both him and his country, BBC reported.
		German chancellor Angela Merkel is currently summing up the member states' position in a bid to present a roadmap and a potential outline of a new treaty which should be presented at a top EU summit on 21-22 June.
		Mr Blair's mandate for his last European event as the UK leader will be rather weak however, as he can only agree to what his successor can defend at home - rather a regular treaty change than a constitution-like document which would have to be put to a referendum.
	euobserver.com /9/24036?rss_rk=1 (646 words)

	IslamWeb - Blair to announce departure date (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tony Blair is preparing to make his long awaited announcement setting out his plans to step down as Labour leader and UK prime minister.
		His decision to make his first public statement on the subject in Sedgefield on Thursday follows a longstanding pledge to voters there that they would be the first to know about his future plans.
		Blair countered that he would be concentrating on "policies for the economy and health, and education and law and order" during the seven weeks he is expected to stay in Downing Street while his Labour successor is chosen.
	www.islamweb.net /ver2/engblue/article.php?lang=E&id=139184 (526 words)

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