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Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business now available in paperback, offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party’s recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson’s landslide of 1966. He then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency which reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords. Richard Wainwright's story is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects. At the same time this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who wants to follow their convictions at the highest level.
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Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business now available in paperback, offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party’s recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson’s landslide of 1966. He then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency which reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in the Lords.Richard Wainwright's story is central to the story of the Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and the state of its prospects. At the same time this book is a parable of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and who wants to follow their convictions at the highest level.
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Byelections: Saddleworth: Liberalism and pavement politics on the campaign trail in 1979
The other lasting political feature is tactical voting which almost always saw the seat go against the national grain. In the Holme and Colne valleys, we spoke with foreboding about the supposed number of Tories in Saddleworth; in Saddleworth, the ploy was the reverse. My most extreme experience was mopping up a \"possible Tory nest\" of barn conversions in Running Hill Gate and topping talk of Labour's might in Holmfirth and Meltham, with a promise to send a postcard from my honeymoon if the Libs won.
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Rugby Union: STOURBRIDGE
The home side took an early lead when a fine passing movement led to a try for winger Ally Bressington, but the Manchester pack then took control. SCORERS: Stourbridge - try: Bressington; penalty: Bressington. Manchester - try: Baldwin; penalty: [Richard Wainwright]; drop-goal: Wainwright.
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Rugby Union: STOURBRIDGE 8 MANCHESTER 11
The home side took an early lead when a fine passing movement led to a try for winger Ally Bressington, but the Manchester pack then took control. SCORERS: Stourbridge - try: Bressington; penalty: Bressington.
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Rugby Union: Park keep up chase ; West Park ... 28 Altrincham Kersal ... 12
Home pressure paid off with a Neil Ryan touchdown converted by Andy Soutar. The visitors levelled out matters by the 55th minute with two more penalties by [Richard Wainwright].
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Industrial Transformers supports Burns Lake snowboarders
Industrial Transformers, a heavy duty repair shop in Burns Lake, donated $1000 to Lakes District Secondary School snowboard teams.
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Former Liberal MP dies, aged 84
Richard Wainwright, the former Liberal MP for Colne Valley, in Yorkshire, died in...
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