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.^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
^ Jim: Because I'm the only one member of the government who can't be sent to Northern Ireland next week.
^ BUT – She was devoted, hard-working, loyal, responsible, a bloody great leader and someone [irrespective of how much her tenure was a living nightmare] who was dignified and worthy of the role of Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Open Government Jim: Who else is in this department?
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
.^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ French Ambassador: Prime Minister, I cannot tell you the gravity of the affront my government would feel if her Majesty were to refuse a gift in exchange for the one our President accepted from her.
As such, the incumbent wields both legislative and executive powers.
.^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Godfrey, The Ministerial Broadcast Make-up Lady: Could you smile Prime Minister.
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Jim: A party political spells instant boredom, I think it should be a Ministerial broadcast, you know, a Prime Minister addressing his people, but I'll do it into the camera, like a party political.
.^ Although, or perhaps because, Israel has had one woman prime minister and may soon have another, the litany began with women.- Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
- Haaretz - Israel News 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.haaretz.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm Report comment Whatever one may think of Thatcher’s policies, she was a forthright prime minister with principals and people including the public knew where they stood with her.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In short, she was magnificent – and the last British prime minister worthy of the office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ She was certainly very anti-Thatcher both with regard to the evisceration of civil society at home and with regard to Thatcher’s scorn for the Commonwealth abroad, as well as detesting her personally.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ The Danish Prime Minister was not the only high-level official to receive advance knowledge that the World Trade Center was going to collapse.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jim, The Tangled Web I, I Prime Minister am merely a humble servant, a lowly official.
.^ Bernard, The Ministerial Broadcast Sir Humphrey: I am sorry Prime Minister you can't announce it yet.
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Things don't happen because Prime Ministers are very keen on them.
[1] .^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Only when a Jewish prime minister is elected in an Arab country Only when a Jewish prime minister is elected in an Arab country .- Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
- Haaretz - Israel News 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.haaretz.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Commonwealth countries, Prime Minister.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Jim: Oh Lord, what do they all want?
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Says: October 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am spain’s prime minister turned around in midflight and headed home about the same time the second plane struck WTC. .- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Constitutional background
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Its origins are found in constitutional changes that occurred during the Revolutionary Settlement (1688–1720) and the resulting shift of political power from the Sovereign to Parliament.
.^ How about this: Prime Minister Churchill vs. President Hoover.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
^ The Tangled Web Bernard: You could say the Prime Minister knows more about it than you do.
The position was given little formal recognition and was not mentioned in legal documents. Between 1784 and 1911, numerous accidents of history and political developments led to unofficial but popular acceptance of the office.
.^ Obama & the first Arab Prime Minister Obama & the first Arab Prime Minister .- Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
- Haaretz - Israel News 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.haaretz.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Obama, & the first Jewish Prime Minister in..- Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
- Haaretz - Israel News 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.haaretz.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Israel first arab prime minister of Israel .- Obama, and the first Arab prime minister of Israel
- Haaretz - Israel News 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.haaretz.com [Source type: Original source]
By the turn of the 20th century, the modern Premiership had emerged; it had become the preeminent position in the constitutional hierarchy vis-a-vis the Sovereign, Parliament and Cabinet. Several recent political changes (Britain's membership in the European Union, the devolution of certain government functions to Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the enactment of a British Bill of Rights) have placed some limits on the authority of the Premiership; however, the House of Lords Act reduced one of the major constraints on the Commons and the cabinet, and hence on the Prime Minister's power, giving rise to concerns that the office has become too "presidential".
.^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Jim: A party political spells instant boredom, I think it should be a Ministerial broadcast, you know, a Prime Minister addressing his people, but I'll do it into the camera, like a party political.
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
As such, the incumbent wields broad executive and legislative powers.
.^ You perfectly mirror Thatcher and her followers, longing to be American, Israeli or some combination of the two rather than British.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey, Power to the People British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the important things of life, and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians.
^ If the British continue to vote for parties with a propensity to redistribute wealth rather than create wealth then it is safe to say that the core British civilization is in terminal decline.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[2] .^ The Final Call has learned that the Executive Order was never repealed by any U.S. President through an Executive Order and is still valid.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The Premiership was not intentionally created by a codified constitution on a certain date. The office evolved over three hundred years, gradually defined by customs known as
conventions that became accepted practice.
[3] .^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Sir Humphrey: Well you could still be Prime Minister next century.
^ All of this has been going on throughout the entire 20th century.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Despite its growing dominance in the constitutional hierarchy, the Premiership was given little formal recognition; the legal fiction was maintained that the Sovereign still governed directly.
[4].^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Your predecessor, the previous Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has just died of a heart attack.
^ And of course she was Britain’s first female prime minister – now we have the likes of Harriet Harman instead, how the world has changed for the worse.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The concept of "
the Crown" resolves this paradox.
[5] The Crown symbolises the state’s authority to govern: to make laws and execute them, impose taxes and collect them, declare war and make peace. Before the
Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Sovereign wore the Crown and exercised the powers it symbolises. Afterwards, Parliament gradually forced Sovereigns to assume a neutral political position.
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm Report comment Whatever one may think of Thatcher’s policies, she was a forthright prime minister with principals and people including the public knew where they stood with her.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
.^ Bernard: Yes you see, he is coming here wearing his head of government hat, he is the head of state too, but it's not a state visit because he's not wearing his head of state hat protocol demands that even though he's wearing his head of government hat, he must still be met by the crown.
^ If one party has just over three hundred it forms a government, of that three hundred one hundred are too old and too silly, one hundred are too young and too callow which leaves just about a hundred MP's to fill one hundred governmental posts.
^ I remember we had the three day week, power cuts…” That was the 1970-74 Heath government.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[6][7]
Foundations of the office of Prime Minister: 1688–1720
Revolutionary settlement
Because the Premiership was not intentionally created, there is no exact date when its evolution began. A meaningful starting point, however, is 1688 when
James II fled
England. The throne being vacant, the
Parliament of England confirmed William and Mary as
England's joint constitutional monarchs, enacting legislation that limited their authority and that of their successors: the
Bill of Rights (1689), the
Mutiny Bill (1689), the
Triennial Bill (1694), the
Treason Act (1696) and the
Act of Settlement (1701).
[8] Known collectively as the Revolutionary Settlement, these acts transformed the constitution, shifting the balance of power from the Sovereign to Parliament.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The Treasury Bench
The Revolutionary Settlement gave the Commons control over finances and legislation and changed the relationship between the Executive and the Legislature. For want of money, Sovereigns had to summon Parliament annually and could no longer dissolve or prorogue it without its advice and consent. Parliament became a permanent feature of political life.
[9] .^ They don’t want to believe it because it would disrupt their own lives.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ McCain would be saddled with many of those of the present administration and their functionaries just because they are Republicans and would take much time and effort to weed out.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
No Sovereign has denied
royal assent since Queen Anne vetoed the
Scottish Militia Bill in 1708.
[10]
Late in the 17th century Treasury Ministers began to attend the Commons regularly. They were given a reserved place, called the Treasury Bench, to the Speaker's right where the Prime Minister and senior Cabinet members sit today
Treasury officials and other department heads were drawn into Parliament serving as liaisons between it and the Sovereign.
.^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ I was surprised in a way about how much time McCain spent attacking Obama instead of answering the questions for what they were.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
The Sovereign’s representatives attended Commons sessions so regularly that they were given reserved seats at the front, known as the Treasury Bench. This is the beginning of "unity of powers": the Sovereign's Ministers (the Executive) became leading members of Parliament (the Legislature).
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Standing Order 66
.^ The Right to Know Sir Humphrey: Bernard, this country is governed by Ministers making decisions from the various alternative proposals that we offer them, is it not?
^ I cannot think of anyone in opposition now who would have even been considered for members of her Government.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ They want it because that is how they would like to run—or is it ruin?—this country.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Hers was the war against the unions, which cannot have had anything to do with monetarism, since the unions have never controlled the money supply.” No, but these self same unions were destroying the country and had to controlled.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they're probably certain you know you probably wouldn't they don't certainly know that although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would.
48)
[11], essentially unchanged for three hundred years.
[12]
Empowering Ministers with sole financial initiative had an immediate and lasting impact. Apart from achieving its intended purpose – to stabilise the budgetary process – it gave the Crown a leadership role in the Commons; and, the Lord Treasurer assumed a leading position among Ministers.
The power of financial initiative was not, however, absolute. Only Ministers might initiate money bills, but Parliament now reviewed and consented to them. Standing Order 66 therefore represents the beginnings of Ministerial responsibility and accountability.
[13].^ Says: October 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am spain’s prime minister turned around in midflight and headed home about the same time the second plane struck WTC. .- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
[14] .^ How about this: Prime Minister Churchill vs. President Hoover.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Thatcher once called the Queen “the sort of person who votes for the SDP”.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[15] Since 1721, every head of the Sovereign's government – with one exception in the 18th century (William Pitt, the Elder) and one in the 19th (Lord Salisbury) – has been First Lord of the Treasury.
Beginnings of the Prime Minister's party leadership
.^ The Ministerial Broadcast Jim: A party political spells instant boredom, I think it should be a Ministerial broadcast, you know, a Prime Minister addressing his people, but I'll do it into the camera, like a party political.
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ RSS Feed Close Related Links Post Politics Post Opinions The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President .- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ If we had a Maggie leading the conservative party right now I would not hesitate to vote for her, and it is likely that she would have been too good in opposition for brown to have got us into this stew.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ For the naysayers Thatcher won her first election against the incompetent incumbent by 339 seats to 269, on an 8% swing, with 43% of the vote to labour’s 36%.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Cameroon has already shown his support for Labour policies on Climate, ‘Climategate’ the socialist state and Europe government.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ If one party has just over three hundred it forms a government, of that three hundred one hundred are too old and too silly, one hundred are too young and too callow which leaves just about a hundred MP's to fill one hundred governmental posts.
^ "Osama bin laden and General Petraeus have something in common" so long as they both agree with McCain - whatever be their reasons for doing so.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ They don’t want to believe it because it would disrupt their own lives.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The
Tories, who believed in the "
Divine Right of Kings", defended James' hereditary claim.
.^ She was expelled from her own Right-wing Liberal Party as being racist, so she set up her own independent One Nation party.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ If we had a Maggie leading the conservative party right now I would not hesitate to vote for her, and it is likely that she would have been too good in opposition for brown to have got us into this stew.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Even today, Conservatives are often called "Tories".
.^ Sir Humphrey: Well he probably thinks it's a religious ceremony, nobody has told him it's a party political.
.^ (A: Singapore or Dubai, if they’re lucky; more likely, able to consider the meaning of the phrase ’surplus value’ at their leisure…).- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Then they swoop down like Superman to blast his credibility out of the sky.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ On this showing one gets the feeling that Obama could grow with the job whereas McCain could only grow older.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ When one rolls their sleeves up, goes to work developing this statement only then can some serious progress be made.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There really is just one soul, the Supreme Soul, as opposed to many individual souls.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
To oppose the King’s party was disloyal, even treasonous. This idea lingered throughout the 18th century. Nevertheless, it became possible at the end of the 17th century to identify Parliaments and Ministries as being either "Whig" or "Tory" in composition.
The early Cabinet
.^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
A convention of the constitution, the modern Cabinet is a group of ministers — usually 22—who formulate policies.
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey: No, no Minister it would never be government policy, that is unthinkable, only government practice.
^ I think that I must have hit the right nail on the head when I pointed out that the logic of those policies is that they would rather the poor were poorer.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard, The Bed of Nails Jim: So, the whole system is designed to stop the cabinet from carrying out its' policies.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Well you could still be Prime Minister next century.
^ The Danish Prime Minister was not the only high-level official to receive advance knowledge that the World Trade Center was going to collapse.- Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Jim, The Tangled Web I, I Prime Minister am merely a humble servant, a lowly official.
With the Prime Minister as its leader, the Cabinet forms the "executive branch".
[16]
.^ Sir Humphrey, The Right to Know Sir Humphrey: There are those who have argued, and indeed cogently, that on occasion there are some things it is better for a Minister not to know.
The growth of the Cabinet met with widespread complaint and opposition because its meetings were often held in secret and it excluded the ancient Privy Council from the Sovereign's circle of advisers, reducing it to an honorary body.
[17] .^ Jim: And who does run this Department?
However, it might also include individuals who were not members of Parliament such as household officers (i.e. the Master of the Horse) and members of the royal family. The exclusion of non-members of Parliament from the Cabinet was essential to the development of ministerial accountability and responsibility.
Early in his reign,
William (1688–1702) preferred "Mixed Ministries" consisting of both Tories and Whigs.
.^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
^ These women represent the harlot because as leaders of their countries they succeeded in making the nations of the world partake in her fornications, enjoying her luxuries and assisting her to condemn others to a life of poverty and starvation.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
This has been the case ever since.
.^ Churchill was merely a great war leader, and hopeless in almost all his non war time roles.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ For the first time ever a world war will be fought on America’s soil.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[18].^ First, because that is his job as an elected member of the Senate.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
[19] Anne (1702–1714) followed this pattern but preferred Tory Cabinets. This approach worked well as long as Parliament was also Tory. In 1702, the Tories dominated the Commons.
.^ And even Obama in his remarks today admitted he did better letting others work it out and just calling him if he's needed.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ If one party has just over three hundred it forms a government, of that three hundred one hundred are too old and too silly, one hundred are too young and too callow which leaves just about a hundred MP's to fill one hundred governmental posts.
^ If certain industries had previously only survived because they lived off the proceeds of money taken by force by the government, or through other forms of interference by the government, then their demise was an unambiguous benefit.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[20] She never parted with an entire Ministry or accepted an entirely new one regardless of the results of an election.
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm Report comment Whatever one may think of Thatcher’s policies, she was a forthright prime minister with principals and people including the public knew where they stood with her.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
[21] .^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey, The Tangled Web With respect Prime Minister, you must learn discretion.
[22]
Both William and Anne appointed and dismissed Cabinet members, attended meetings, made decisions, and followed up on actions. Relieving the Sovereign of these responsibilities and gaining control over the Cabinet's composition was an essential part of evolution of the Premiership.
This process began after the Hanoverian Succession. Although
George I (1714–1727) attended Cabinet meetings at first, after 1717 he withdrew because he did not speak English and was bored with the discussions.
.^ Official Secrets Jim: I have decided that the only solution is for me to have a summit meeting with the French President and sort it out myself.
Thus, the convention that Sovereigns do not attend Cabinet meetings was established primarily through royal indifference to the everyday tasks of governance.
.^ How about this: Prime Minister Churchill vs. President Hoover.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Kissinger did not call for such meetings to be between the two presidents.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
[23].^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Although a strong leader, she was a divisive and very controversial one, leading the Church (even) to question her policies on the inner cities, for instance.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Obama showed balance, self-control, knowledge of the issues and prudence not to rush to judgement until seeing the facts.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Sir Humphrey: Well you know Minister, emergency government headquarters, if and when.
The Treasury Commission: 1714
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Well you could still be Prime Minister next century.
The connection of these two offices – one a convention, the other a legal office – began with the Hanoverian Succession in 1714.
.^ You are asking who would know what it is that I don't know and you don't know, but the Foreign Office know that they know, that they are keeping from you so that you don't know but they do know, and all we know is that there is something we don't know but we want to know but we don't know what because we don't know.
^ McCain lost last night's debate in the eyes of those who will decide this election, the undecideds because of his clear disdain for Obama.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Jim: Because I'm the only one member of the government who can't be sent to Northern Ireland next week.
They also feared that a Lord High Treasurer would undermine their own influence with the new King. They therefore suggested that he place the office in "commission', meaning that a committee of five ministers would perform its functions together. Theoretically, this dilution of authority would prevent any one of them from presuming to be the head of the government.
.^ Would you agree that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed (even if we borrow it from the future on the promise to repay it with wealth still to be created)?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Now if I was a job I could whiz old Humpy to the Scrubs no trouble, feet wouldn't touch, clang bang, see you in three years time, one third remission for good conduct - I can't do that.
^ If one party has just over three hundred it forms a government, of that three hundred one hundred are too old and too silly, one hundred are too young and too callow which leaves just about a hundred MP's to fill one hundred governmental posts.
.^ Bernard: Oh, I'm sorry to be pedantic Prime Minister, but they can't beat you over the head if they're on their knees, ah unless of course (kneels on floor, raises arm) they've got very long arms, or unless ...
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[24][25]
Early Prime Ministers: 1720–1784
The "first" Prime Minister - Walpole (1720–1742)
.^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
However, the honorary appellation is traditionally given to Sir
Robert Walpole who became First Lord of the Treasury in 1721.
In 1720, the
South Sea Company, created to trade in cotton, agricultural goods and slaves, collapsed, causing the financial ruin of thousands of investors and heavy losses for many others including members of the royal family. King George I called on Robert Walpole, well-known for his political and financial acumen, to handle the emergency. With considerable skill and some luck, Walpole acted quickly to restore public credit and confidence, and led the country out of the crisis.
.^ The Smoke Screen Jim: Tell the Minister that I will see him at the house at 2.30 for ten minutes.
^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ The Right to Know Sir Humphrey: Bernard, this country is governed by Ministers making decisions from the various alternative proposals that we offer them, is it not?
Ruthless, crude, and hard-working, he had a "sagacious business sense" and was a superb manager of men.
[26] At the head of affairs for the next two decades, Walpole stabilised the nation's finances, kept it at peace, made it prosperous, and secured the Hanoverian Succession.
[27].^ How about this: Prime Minister Churchill vs. President Hoover.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
.^ Should Gordon Brown have to leave Dowining Street next year, Britain wouldn’t be stronger, but much weaker than in 1997 when New Labour policians began to govern what still was a great European nation then.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Is it just me who finds the irony that you have no self respect highlighted by yourself on a blog about a Lady who had more self-respect than you could ever imagine.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There has rarely been a more Stalinist piece of legislation in this country, what happened to small government and individual responsibilty there?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Third, recognising that the Cabinet had become the executive and must be united, he dominated the other members and demanded their complete support for his policies. Fourth, recognising that political parties were the source of ministerial strength, he led the Whig party and maintained discipline.
.^ All the emphasis has been on those who merely move it around, helping themselves to it as they do so.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ She did very well for those who supported her but came across as horrifically uncaring towards everyone else.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Yes, all those inconveniences were during the Heath government but it was Mrs.T who put and end to them wasn’t it.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Would you agree that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed (even if we borrow it from the future on the promise to repay it with wealth still to be created)?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Soros and partners finally brought her down because she no longer was in sync with what the bankers and large corporations wanted.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[29][30]
Ambivalence and denial: 1742–1784
.^ Sir Humphrey, The Grand Design General: At last, I have actually come across a Prime Minister with a bit of sense.
The King chose him, not Parliament; and the King chose the Cabinet, not Walpole. Walpole set an example, not a precedent, and few followed his example.
.^ There are many other aspects of any “Thatcherism” properly so called, and they all present her in about as positive a light.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Open Government Bernard: It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of Minister, one sort folds up instantly the other sort goes round and round in circles.
^ Sir Humphrey: Quite so, perhaps there are some things it is better for a Minister not to know.
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[31] .^ There are many other aspects of any “Thatcherism” properly so called, and they all present her in about as positive a light.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: Oh, I'm sorry to be pedantic Prime Minister, but they can't beat you over the head if they're on their knees, ah unless of course (kneels on floor, raises arm) they've got very long arms, or unless ...
^ Sir Humphrey, Equal Opportunities Sir Humphrey: Now Minister, if you going to promote women just because they're the best person for the job you will create a lot of resentment throughout the whole of the Civil Service.
For these reasons there was a reluctance to use the title.
.^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Walpole himself denied it.
.^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
.^ A Real Partnership My dear Frank, I defended you gallantly, leaving the Prime Minister in no doubt as to the real cause of the rush.
^ As I tried to prove when I wrote some of my earlier comments on this thread, as Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher has never been anti-German.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: I think he said, yes Prime Minister.
[32] .^ Both were fully sponsored by the government, and especially by the Prime Minister, of the day.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Equal Opportunities Jim: Surely you're not saying that the government of Britain is unimportant?
.^ As I tried to prove when I wrote some of my earlier comments on this thread, as Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher has never been anti-German.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: I think he said, yes Prime Minister.
^ The Prime Minister is aware that I detest every single one of her domestic policies, and I have never hidden that fact.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[33] Lord North, the reluctant head of the King's Government during the
American War of Independence, "would never suffer himself to be called Prime Minister, because it was an office unknown to the Constitution."
[34][35]Denials of the Premiership's legal existence continued throughout the 19th century.
.^ Which is more than can be said of any of her successors.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ They both in their own ways are probably decent men, but neither one has enough fire in his belly to be more than mediocre.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Is it just me who finds the irony that you have no self respect highlighted by yourself on a blog about a Lady who had more self-respect than you could ever imagine.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
By the turn of the 20th century the Premiership had become, by convention, the most important position in the constitutional hierarchy. Yet there were no legal documents describing its powers or acknowledging its existence. Incumbents had no statutory authority in their own right.
.^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
This is a strange paradox."
[36].^ The Tangled Web I am sorry Prime Minister, I cannot become involved in some shabby coverup.
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ As I tried to prove when I wrote some of my earlier comments on this thread, as Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher has never been anti-German.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[37]
.^ Yes, that’s the Lady; and what a Prime Prime minister she was.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Commonwealth countries, Prime Minister.
^ Sir Humphrey: (surprised) Prime Minister.
Unequivocal legal recognition was given in the
Ministers of the Crown Act (1937) which made provision for paying a salary to the person who is both "the First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister". Explicitly recognising two hundred years' of ambivalence, the act states that it intended "To give statutory recognition to the existence of the position of Prime Minister, and to the historic link between the Premiership and the office of First Lord of the Treasury, by providing in respect to that position and office a salary of ..." The Act made a distinction between the "position" (Prime Minister) and the "office" (First Lord of the Treasury), emphasising the unique political character of the former.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
"First among equals": 1784–1911
Emergence of Cabinet government: Pitt and Liverpool (1784–1830)
Despite the reluctance to legally recognise the Premiership, ambivalence toward it waned in the 1780s. As noted previously, George III (1760–1820) is known to have attended only two Cabinet meetings.
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ One of these principles is that no nation should invade a foreign country’s territory to increase its own might and power.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Besides, no one is perfect – even the best PMs like Thatcher make their mistakes.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ One of these principles is that no nation should invade a foreign country’s territory to increase its own might and power.” .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[39].^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
.^ Agnes: Well of course they would if the understand, but ordinary voters are simple people.
.^ Even those who disagree with Obama agree that he is methodical and understands our economic and foreign policy challenges.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Sir Humphrey: That's only because you threatened to dismiss anyone who wouldn't agree.
^ I do not believe anyone who says they are Democrats and voting for McCain, neither does anyone else.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
[40] King George threatened to
abdicate but in the end reluctantly agreed out of necessity: he had to have a government.
.^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Tangled Web Bernard: You could say the Prime Minister knows more about it than you do.
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[21][41] Associated initially with the Whigs, even the Tories started to accept it.
.^ She is outright scary to be in a number 2 spot, when the number 1 spot has a grumpy old man with skin cancer who has already put one foot in the grave and the other foot on a bar of soap.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ The man who for years imprisoned thousands of U.S. citizens--men, women, and children--in internment camps?- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Unfortunately, he was channeling the Reagan who died of Alzheimer's disease, not the man who said, "Mr.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
[42][43] In 1803,
William Pitt the Younger, also a Tory, suggested to a friend that "this person generally called the first minister" was an absolute necessity for a government to function, and expressed his belief that this person should be the minister in charge of the finances.
[32]
William Pitt the Younger in front of the Treasury Bench addressing the House of Commons. Pitt's 19 year ministry followed by Lord Liverpool's 15, led the Tory Party to accept the office of Prime Minister as a convention of the constitution.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Well you could still be Prime Minister next century.
^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ But she carried out her duties with dignity, integrity and honesty unlike the idiotic shower who have presided over us in the last 13 years.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Look at the people who are now, after 30 years of the country that she created.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ But more to the point, after 8 years of George Bush, who could seriously be thinking of voting republican?!!- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
The Prince Regent was prevented from using the full powers of Kingship.
.^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Under their long, consistent leadership, Cabinet government became a convention of the constitution. Although subtle issues remained to be settled, the
Cabinet system of government is essentially the same today as it was in 1830.
.^ Sir Humphrey: [shakes his head] - Open Government Sir Humphrey: Her Majesty does like the business of government to continue even when there are no politicians around.
.^ The Smoke Screen Jim: Tell the Minister that I will see him at the house at 2.30 for ten minutes.
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
.^ Jim: Because I'm the only one member of the government who can't be sent to Northern Ireland next week.
^ Sir Humphrey: No, no Minister it would never be government policy, that is unthinkable, only government practice.
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, it is the most courageous policy that you have ever proposed.
He then recommends them to the Sovereign who confirms his selections by formally appointing them to their respective offices.
.^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ Bernard: I don't know specifically what, Prime Minister, but I do know that the Foreign Office keep everything for everybody.
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
The Sovereign does not confer with its members privately about policy or attend its meetings.
.^ The Right to Know Actually it's only the urban middle class who worry about the preservation of the countryside, because they don't have to live in it.
[44] .^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ The Right to Know Sir Humphrey: Bernard, this country is governed by Ministers making decisions from the various alternative proposals that we offer them, is it not?
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The Loyal Opposition
.^ Open Government Jim: Who else is in this department?
^ Jim: Because I'm the only one member of the government who can't be sent to Northern Ireland next week.
^ Then, from here to Saint Helena and everywhere else where it is applicable, those of us who want to be British can get on with being British, no longer troubled either by them or by you.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Annie: No of course not silly of me they're just called the opposition.
.^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The House of Commons early 19th century. The Loyal Opposition occupy the benches to the Speaker's left. Seated in the front, the leaders of the opposition form a "Shadow Government", complete with a salaried "Shadow Prime Minister" ready to assume office if the government falls or loses the next election.
.^ I cannot think of anyone in opposition now who would have even been considered for members of her Government.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
During the eighteenth century, this idea waned and finally disappeared as the two party system developed. The expression "His Majesty's Opposition" was coined by
John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton. In 1826, Broughton, a Whig, announced in the Commons that he opposed the report of a Bill. As a joke, he said, "It was said to be very hard on His Majesty's ministers to raise objections to this proposition. For my part, I think it is much more hard on His Majesty's Opposition to compel them to take this course."
[46][47] The phrase caught on and has been used ever since. Sometimes translated as the "
Loyal Opposition", it acknowledges the legitimate existence of the two party system, and describes an important constitutional concept: opposing the government is not treason; reasonable men can honestly oppose its policies and still be loyal to the Sovereign and the nation.
Informally recognised for over a century as a convention of the constitution, the position of Leader of the Opposition was given statutory recognition in 1937 by the
Ministers of the Crown Act.
.^ If we had a Maggie leading the conservative party right now I would not hesitate to vote for her, and it is likely that she would have been too good in opposition for brown to have got us into this stew.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The Great Reform Bill and the Premiership: Grey
.^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ As I tried to prove when I wrote some of my earlier comments on this thread, as Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher has never been anti-German.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Prime Minister is aware that I detest every single one of her domestic policies, and I have never hidden that fact.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ They both in their own ways are probably decent men, but neither one has enough fire in his belly to be more than mediocre.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Think about it – if your employer found that the value of the output of your labour was less than what they could sell it for, are you likely to become richer or poorer?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ If, as David Lindsay suggests, you believe there is nothing wrong with union leaders being household names, you have no appreciation of why they were so well-known and therefore no appreciation of what was required of whoever won the election in 79.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Lord Grey, often called the first modern Prime Minister
Inscription on Grey Monument, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England (click image to enlarge)
.^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There was a side to her that loved paperwork: remember all that stuff about how she stayed up most of the night working on her files?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[48] .^ It is of course thoroughly characteristic of constituencies like that they are, among other things, largely Catholic.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Politicians are like children, you can't give them what they want, it only encourages them.
^ All they're interested in is poaching each others members and getting themselves on the telly, and they can't keep their big mouths shut.
.^ For the naysayers Thatcher won her first election against the incompetent incumbent by 339 seats to 269, on an 8% swing, with 43% of the vote to labour’s 36%.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Her party was financed, just like New Labour’s, by the debt of future generations.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Announcer: So Jim Hacker's back with an increased majority and after many years as a shadow Minister seems almost certain to get a post in the new government.
^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey: Buranda is what was used to be called an under-developed country, however this term was largely regarded as offensive, so they became known as developing countries and then as less developed countries or LDC's.
The system was based on legislation passed in 1429 and virtually unchanged for 400 years.
[49][50] In 1832, only 440,000 met the voter qualifications in a population of 17 million. Although populations shifted, representation in the Commons remained the same. Consequently, some constituencies were over-represented; others under-represented.
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
[51][52]
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ A right that has been fought for over many years and only recently came to pass.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm Report comment Whatever one may think of Thatcher’s policies, she was a forthright prime minister with principals and people including the public knew where they stood with her.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[53][54]
The greatness of the Great Reform Bill lay less in substance than symbolism. As John Bright, the liberal statesman of the next generation, said, "It was not a good Bill, but it was a great Bill when it passed."
[55]Substantively, it increased the franchise 65% to 717,000 with the middle class receiving most of the new votes. The representation of 56 rotten boroughs was eliminated completely and half the representation of 30 others; the freed up seats were distributed to boroughs created for previously disenfranchised areas.
.^ Economic freedom was enhanced for entrepreneurs, and the aspiring working class, thereby, but many also lost their jobs in the closure of many northern heavy industries.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ So many people are still enthralled by Obama's ability to use language to work his way around issues.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
[56][57]Symbolically, the Bill exceeded expectations and is now ranked with
Magna Carta and the
Bill of Rights as one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by Parliament.
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ David Lindsay on Dec 30th, 2009 at 9:17 pm Report comment She was , without doubt one of the great “3″ Prime Ministers of the past century.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Broken record on Dec 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pm Report comment Mrs Thatcher was an above-average Prime Minister but not a great one.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Slowly evolving for 100 years, this convention was confirmed two years after the passage of the bill. In 1834
King William IV dismissed Melbourne as Premier, but was forced to recall him when
Robert Peel, the King's choice, could not form a working majority.
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Conservatives assured us that they had no plans to double VAT, but it wednt up from 8 to 15% in Geoffrey Howe’s second budget.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ One of these principles is that no nation should invade a foreign country’s territory to increase its own might and power.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Remove or reduce the willing buyer or willing seller’s portion of the new wealth and the transaction does not occur and no new wealth is created for anyone.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Weakened, they were unable to prevent the passage of more comprehensive electoral reforms in 1867, 1884, 1918 and 1928 when universal equal suffrage was achieved.
[58]
.^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
(Disraeli is in the lead looking back over his shoulder at Gladstone.)
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Phil Kean on Dec 30th, 2009 at 2:04 pm Report comment Yes Beaton that Thatcher – condemn her for her policies but in the role of Prime Minister ?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The last to do so was
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, from 1895 to 1902.
[59]
Grey's bearing changed the Premiership.
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey, The Bed of Nails Jim: Will you please recommend to the Prime Minister that we set up an immediate Leak Inquiry.
^ Both were fully sponsored by the government, and especially by the Prime Minister, of the day.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ And of course she was Britain’s first female prime minister – now we have the likes of Harriet Harman instead, how the world has changed for the worse.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ This harlot is symbolic of the Statue of Liberty, the Queen of England, Golda Meir, the Prime Minister of Israel.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Using his Whig victory as a mandate for reform, Grey was unrelenting in the pursuit of this goal, using every Parliamentary device to achieve it.
.^ And the utterances of most of John Major’s closest allies on Blair’s wars made it perfectly clear where he himself stood, although he should have said it himself.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The Loyal Opposition acquiesced too.
.^ What Obama did do early this week--and in his response--was lay out the major things the bill would have to include in order for him to support it.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Once they start to talk about the gap, they would rather that the gap were that—[indicating[—down here, not this—[indicating[—but—[indicating.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Her presence in office when that Union happened to collapse may have been coincidental, but it would have been delayed for a very very long time without strong conservative leaders in the west.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Whether or not she stood for the country’s friends, she stood for the country’s economic interests and if it had not been so badly run before she took office, as it has been again in the last decade, the reparation would not have been so severe.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ If somebody tells me UK is a peace-loving country, I would laugh too.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Populist Prime Ministers: Disraeli and Gladstone
Prime Minister
William Gladstone cultivated the public image as a
man of the people by circulating pictures like this of himself cutting down oak trees with an axe.
.^ We ought, however, to be very clear about the content of negotiations and work it out with other countries and with our own government."- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ During the debate, Senator McCain hammered at Obama's "naivete" about foreign policy.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ David Lindsay on Dec 30th, 2009 at 9:17 pm Report comment She was , without doubt one of the great “3″ Prime Ministers of the past century.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Broken record on Dec 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pm Report comment Mrs Thatcher was an above-average Prime Minister but not a great one.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ And of course she was Britain’s first female prime minister – now we have the likes of Harriet Harman instead, how the world has changed for the worse.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
It naturally fell on them to motivate and organise their followers, explain party policies, and deliver its “message”. Successful leaders had to have a new set of skills: to give a good speech, present a favourable image, and interact with a crowd. They became the "voice", the “face” and the "image" of the party and ministry.
Prime Minister
Benjamin Disraeli cultivated a public image as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on
Victoria the title “Empress of India”.
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ And of course she was Britain’s first female prime minister – now we have the likes of Harriet Harman instead, how the world has changed for the worse.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Phil Kean on Dec 30th, 2009 at 2:04 pm Report comment Yes Beaton that Thatcher – condemn her for her policies but in the role of Prime Minister ?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ All in all, she turned Britain into the country that Marxists had always said it was, even though, before her, it never actually had been.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ I am copying all his posts for the election campaign he is to fight,to show us locals” .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
'It's the first time that I remember in our history that the people have chosen the first Minister for the Sovereign. Mr. Pitt's case in '84 is the nearest analogy; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected."
[62]
Benjamin Disraeli and
William Gladstone developed this new role further by projecting "images" of themselves to the public. Known by their nicknames “Dizzy” and the “Grand Old Man”, their colourful, sometimes bitter, personal and political rivalry over the issues of their time – Imperialism vs. Anti-Imperialism, expansion of the franchise, labour reform, and Irish Home Rule – spanned almost twenty years until Disraeli’s death in 1881.
[63] Documented by the penny press, photographs and political cartoons, their rivalry linked specific personalities with the Premiership in the public mind and further enhanced its status.
.^ Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times” .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
)
Each created a different public image of himself and his party.
.^ The parties in power make policy and those policies failed big time.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Sir Humphrey, Power to the People British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the important things of life, and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians.
^ Funny how people are quick to nickname McCain and show so little respect yet would hit the roof if Obama got called constant names.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
Gladstone went beyond image by appealing directly to the people.
.^ The Right to Know Actually it's only the urban middle class who worry about the preservation of the countryside, because they don't have to live in it.
.^ Anyone else would try harder.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Would you agree that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed (even if we borrow it from the future on the promise to repay it with wealth still to be created)?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ She may not have wanted the reunification of Germany but by many in the east she is still seen as the only western leader who encouraged the breakup of the old communist bloc.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Publicised nationwide, Gladstone's message became that of the party.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Well I for one, Minister, would be very surprised, as it is a thousand miles inland you see.
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Things don't happen because Prime Ministers are very keen on them.
^ Sir Humphrey: I think he said, yes Prime Minister.
[64]Campaigning directly to the people became commonplace.
.^ How about this: Prime Minister Churchill vs. President Hoover.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ David Lindsay on Dec 30th, 2009 at 9:17 pm Report comment She was , without doubt one of the great “3″ Prime Ministers of the past century.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
After the introduction of
radio, motion pictures, television, and the internet, many used these technologies to project their public image and address the nation.
Stanley Baldwin, a master of the radio broadcast in the 1920s and 1930s, reached a national audience in his talks filled with homely advise and simple expressions of national pride.
[65] Churchill also used the radio to great effect, inspiring, reassuring and informing the people with his speeches during the Second World War.
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
"The props in Blair's theatre of celebrity," according to
Anthony King, "included . . . his guitar, his casual clothes . . . footballs bounced skillfully off the top of his head . . . and carefully choreographed speeches-cum-performances at Labour Party conferences."
[66]The modern Premiership: 1911 to the present
The Parliament Act and the Premiership: 1911
.^ David Lindsay on Dec 30th, 2009 at 9:17 pm Report comment She was , without doubt one of the great “3″ Prime Ministers of the past century.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ French Ambassador: Prime Minister, I cannot tell you the gravity of the affront my government would feel if her Majesty were to refuse a gift in exchange for the one our President accepted from her.
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Jim: A party political spells instant boredom, I think it should be a Ministerial broadcast, you know, a Prime Minister addressing his people, but I'll do it into the camera, like a party political.
.^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ Godfrey, The Ministerial Broadcast Make-up Lady: Could you smile Prime Minister.
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Jim: A party political spells instant boredom, I think it should be a Ministerial broadcast, you know, a Prime Minister addressing his people, but I'll do it into the camera, like a party political.
.^ Are Labour members prepared to defend the rights of this United Kingdom Parliament?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Please let me remind you that unlike the government of Tony Blair, the German government had nothing to do with the desastrous Iraq War of George W. Bush.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
From its appearance in the 14th century, Parliament has been a bicameral legislature consisting of the Commons and the Lords. Members of the Commons are elected; those in the Lords are not. Most Lords are called "Temporal" with titles such as Duke, Marquess, Earl and Viscount. The balance are Lords Spiritual (prelates of the Anglican Church).
.^ Jim: Because I'm the only one member of the government who can't be sent to Northern Ireland next week.
^ I saw something very clearly in last night's debate that gets right down to the fundamentals of who these candidates are.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ When the next General Election is upon us, people will have the vote who were not born when she was removed from office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
In 1910, for example, there were nineteen whose title was created before 1500.
[67][68][69][70]
.^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ The Key Sir Humphrey: I am coming through to number 10, I would like a word with the Prime Minister, please.
^ Both were fully sponsored by the government, and especially by the Prime Minister, of the day.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
This was not always easy because political differences usually separated the chambers.
.^ If I have to choose who I want representing the US and to go up against Putin or Ahmadinejad McCain is clearly superior in every way.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
The party affiliation of members of the Commons was less predictable. During the 18th century, its makeup varied because the Lords had considerable control over elections: sometimes Whigs dominated it, sometimes Tories. After the passage of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, the Commons gradually became more progressive, a tendency that increased with the passage of each subsequent expansion of the franchise.
.^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Commonwealth countries, Prime Minister.
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
.^ That great Liberal,David Lloyd George, Winston, and Margaret Hilda.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
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In 1906, the Liberal party, led by Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won an overwhelming victory on a platform that promised social reforms for the working class. With 379 seats compared to the Conservatives' 132, the Liberals could confidently expect to pass their legislative programme through the Commons.
[71][72] At the same time, however, the Conservative Party had a huge majority in the Lords; it could easily veto any legislation passed by the Commons that was against their interests.
[73]For five years, the Commons and the Lords fought over one bill after another. The Liberals pushed through parts of their programme, but the Conservatives vetoed or modified others. When the Lords vetoed the "People's Budget" in 1909, the controversy moved almost inevitably toward a constitutional crisis.
[74]
An important vote: the House of Lords voting for the Parliament Act 1911. From the Drawing by S. Begg The Parliament Act 1911 eliminated the Lords’ veto power over legislation approved by the House of Commons. Indirectly, it also further enhanced the dominance of the Prime Minister in the constitutional hierarchy.
.^ Power to the People Professor Mariott: Parliament would become genuinely democratic.
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Passed by the Commons, the Lords rejected it. In a general election fought on this issue, the Liberals were weakened but still had a comfortable majority. At Asquith’s request, King
George V then threatened to create a sufficient number of new Liberal Peers to ensure the bill’s passage. Rather than accept a permanent Liberal majority, the Conservative Lords yielded, and the bill became law.
[76]
The
Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the Commons.
.^ Is it just me who finds the irony that you have no self respect highlighted by yourself on a blog about a Lady who had more self-respect than you could ever imagine.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The seller may get more money from the transaction than s/he laid out in the previous exchange but that isn’t wealth creation – it isn’t about creating ‘added value’.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Furthermore, the act provided that any bill rejected by the Lords would nevertheless become law if passed by the Commons in three successive sessions provided that two years had elapsed since its original passage. The Lords could still delay or suspend the enactment of legislation but could no longer veto it.
[77][78] Subsequently the Lords “suspending” power was reduced to one year by the
Parliament Act 1949.
Indirectly, the Act enhanced the already dominant position of Prime Minister in the constitutional hierarchy.
.^ Would you agree that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed (even if we borrow it from the future on the promise to repay it with wealth still to be created)?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
.^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ The Key Sir Humphrey: I am coming through to number 10, I would like a word with the Prime Minister, please.
"Presidential" Premiership
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Isn't it time to move on and change the direction this country has been taking in the last eight years?- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Man Overboard Jim: Put it (the plan) top of the agenda next Cabinet Meeting, OK? Sir Humphrey: Yes, Prime Minister.
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
As early as 1965, in a new introduction to
Walter Bagehot's classic work
The English Constitution,
Richard Crossman identified a new era of "Prime Ministerial" government.
.^ Since I expected so little from him, I was impressed at his performance and no longer consider him senile.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ At the end of her chapter of British politics, how can she say that she can justify the fact that many people in a constituency such as mine are relatively much poorer, much less well housed and much less well provided for than they were in 1979?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Then, from here to Saint Helena and everywhere else where it is applicable, those of us who want to be British can get on with being British, no longer troubled either by them or by you.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[79] .^ The Right to Know Sir Humphrey: Bernard, this country is governed by Ministers making decisions from the various alternative proposals that we offer them, is it not?
On her resignation, Short denounced "the centralisation of power into the hands of the Prime Minister and an increasingly small number of advisers"
[80] The
Butler Review of 2004 condemned Blair's style of "sofa government".
Churchill waves to the Crowds After Announcing the Surrender of Germany 1945
.^ Would they elect Winston Churchill?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
.^ Her government started the phase out of tax relief on mortgages, if nuclear power had been developed we would not have an impending energy crisis.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Tangled Web I am sorry Prime Minister, I cannot become involved in some shabby coverup.
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ As I tried to prove when I wrote some of my earlier comments on this thread, as Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher has never been anti-German.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Prime Minister is aware that I detest every single one of her domestic policies, and I have never hidden that fact.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times” .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
^ A Question of Loyalty Sir Humphrey: Yes, yes, yes, yes I do see that there is a real dilemma here, in that while it has been government policy to regard policy as the responsibility of Ministers and administration as the responsibility of officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts or overlaps with responsibility for the policy of administration of policy.
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Her government started the phase out of tax relief on mortgages, if nuclear power had been developed we would not have an impending energy crisis.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The parties in power make policy and those policies failed big time.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ When I criticised Margaret Thatcher for supporting Augusto Pinochet, you replied that “she stood by our friends”.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
^ Barack Obama was running for prime minister and head of government in Friday night’s debate.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Of course the Conservatives struggled to gain power at elections, their previous leader was Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ A Question of Loyalty Cathy: As a Cabinet Minister, with all this power, what have you personally achieved?
^ Ted Heath, one of the worst Prime Ministers of recent times” .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
In practice, however, a Government with a strong majority need rarely fear "backbench rebellions".
Powers and constraints
.^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Barack Obama was running for prime minister and head of government in Friday night’s debate.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ French Ambassador: Prime Minister, I cannot tell you the gravity of the affront my government would feel if her Majesty were to refuse a gift in exchange for the one our President accepted from her.
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
^ Both were fully sponsored by the government, and especially by the Prime Minister, of the day.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Bernard, The Ministerial Broadcast Sir Humphrey: I am sorry Prime Minister you can't announce it yet.
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ A Diplomatic Incident No we can't have alphabetical seating in the abbey, we'd have Iraq and Iran next to each other, plus Israel and Jordan all sitting in the same pew.
^ At that Election, my own generation of post-Thatcher teenagers will first enter Parliament in some numbers, a few being already there.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ A Question of Loyalty Cathy: As a Cabinet Minister, with all this power, what have you personally achieved?
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm Report comment Whatever one may think of Thatcher’s policies, she was a forthright prime minister with principals and people including the public knew where they stood with her.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ We sought an answer to that point when I was Principle Private Secretary and Dr Edith Summersgill as she then was, was appointed Minister in 1947, I didn't quite like to refer to her as my mistress.
.^ Chief Scientific Adviser, The Grand Design Bernard: Prime Minister, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy?
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ We tried all sorts of other celebrities and nobody else could make it.
^ Godfrey, The Ministerial Broadcast Make-up Lady: Could you smile Prime Minister.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, it is the most courageous policy that you have ever proposed.
^ Jim, The Tangled Web I, I Prime Minister am merely a humble servant, a lowly official.
^ Those civil servants may be always kowtowing to daddy but they never take any notice of him.
.^ The Bishops Gambit The Church of England is primarily a social organisation, not a religious one.
.^ Sir Humphrey: Well you could still be Prime Minister next century.
^ Sir Humphrey, The Bed of Nails Jim: Will you please recommend to the Prime Minister that we set up an immediate Leak Inquiry.
^ And of course she was Britain’s first female prime minister – now we have the likes of Harriet Harman instead, how the world has changed for the worse.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ A Question of Loyalty Cathy: As a Cabinet Minister, with all this power, what have you personally achieved?
.^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
^ If one party has just over three hundred it forms a government, of that three hundred one hundred are too old and too silly, one hundred are too young and too callow which leaves just about a hundred MP's to fill one hundred governmental posts.
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
.^ If the British continue to vote for parties with a propensity to redistribute wealth rather than create wealth then it is safe to say that the core British civilization is in terminal decline.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey, The Bed of Nails Newspapers aren't like the government you know Humphrey, if we make statements we have to prove they're true.
^ (A: Singapore or Dubai, if they’re lucky; more likely, able to consider the meaning of the phrase ’surplus value’ at their leisure…).- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey, The Economy Drive Sir Humphrey: MP's are chosen by the people, they're chosen by their local party, thirty five men in grubby raincoats or thirty five women in silly hats.
.^ Bernard, The Ministerial Broadcast Sir Humphrey: I am sorry Prime Minister you can't announce it yet.
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
Restraints imposed by the Commons grow weaker when the Government's party enjoys a large majority in that House, or in the electorate.
.^ There is one statistic, however, that I understand is not challenged, and that is that, during her 11 years as Prime Minister, the gap between the richest 10 per cent.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Was she “the Iron Lady” when she took just as little time to move from public opposition to public support of Spanish accession to the Western European Union?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ [Bernard, Malcolm, Godfrey and lady look from TV screen to Jim] Godfrey: Prime Minister, how would you feel about a little dental work?
However, even a government with a healthy majority can on occasion find itself unable to pass legislation.
.^ I even guess that he would be more honest while holding office than Tony Blair has ever intended to be.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Please let me remind you that unlike the government of Tony Blair, the German government had nothing to do with the desastrous Iraq War of George W. Bush.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Is there any reason to assume that David Lindsay would be less qualified than Tony Blair?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ In Britain even Tony Blair did it.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Please let me remind you that unlike the government of Tony Blair, the German government had nothing to do with the desastrous Iraq War of George W. Bush.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[81].^ French Ambassador: Prime Minister, I cannot tell you the gravity of the affront my government would feel if her Majesty were to refuse a gift in exchange for the one our President accepted from her.
^ Sir Humphrey: No, no Minister it would never be government policy, that is unthinkable, only government practice.
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
.^ For the naysayers Thatcher won her first election against the incompetent incumbent by 339 seats to 269, on an 8% swing, with 43% of the vote to labour’s 36%.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt among a clear majority of Americans that Obama passed the Commander in Chief test and has command of the issues.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Sir Humphrey: (laughs) Controversial only means this will lose you votes, courageous means this will lose you the election.
.^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Since I expected so little from him, I was impressed at his performance and no longer consider him senile.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ Official Secrets Jim: I have decided that the only solution is for me to have a summit meeting with the French President and sort it out myself.
^ Make alternative arrangements, and leave the 45govts and the xbats of the world to slog it out for any remaining votes, or simply to carve them up.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Bernard, The Ministerial Broadcast Sir Humphrey: I am sorry Prime Minister you can't announce it yet.
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Things don't happen because Prime Ministers are very keen on them.
^ Godfrey, The Ministerial Broadcast Make-up Lady: Could you smile Prime Minister.
Peers as Prime Ministers
.^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Precedence, privileges and form of address
Tony Blair and
Dick Cheney at the main door to 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's residence in London, on 11 March 2002.
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ A Conflict of Interest Burandan High Commissioner: A racist attack on our President would undoubtedly create solidarity and support from all the other African states.
^ Your predecessor, the previous Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has just died of a heart attack.
.^ Bernard, The Ministerial Broadcast Sir Humphrey: I am sorry Prime Minister you can't announce it yet.
^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ Sir Humphrey, The Bishops Gambit Master: It's such an awful country, they cut peoples' hands off.
This is usually done by saying words to the effect of:
- "Her Majesty the Queen [His Majesty the King] has asked me to form a government and I have accepted."[84][85]
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ And the utterances of most of John Major’s closest allies on Blair’s wars made it perfectly clear where he himself stood, although he should have said it himself.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Dec 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pm Report comment This is the first of 3 parts of the video of Prime Minister Thatcher’s last appearance in Parliament as PM .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
[86] .^ Dear MR. Ignatius: Your characterization "he Prime Minister and the President" is what precisely Obama is ahead among younger voter.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ Sir Arnold, Open Government The Prime Minister giveth and the Prime Minister taketh away, blessed be the name Prime Minister.
^ Barack Obama was running for prime minister and head of government in Friday night’s debate.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
.^ I felt that Obama would do a much better job of building consensus both in America and the world than McCain."- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ I felt that Obama would do a much better job of building consensus both in America and the world than McCain.- PostPartisan - The Debate: The Prime Minister and the President 23 January 2010 10:24 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
^ The British political system is better than the German one.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
The
Constitutional Reform Act 2005 stripped the Lord Chancellor of his judicial functions and his salary was reduced to below that of the Prime Minister.
Chequers. The Prime Minister's official country home.
.^ The Ministerial Broadcast Sir Humphrey: He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place in the country, endless publicity and a pension for life, what more does he want?
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Commonwealth countries, Prime Minister.
.^ Bernard: Prime Minister, a hot potato can't become into a banana skin, well if you don't do anything a hot potato just becomes a cold potato.
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister the Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the money.
^ The Tangled Web I am sorry Prime Minister, I cannot become involved in some shabby coverup.
Membership of the Council is retained for life.
.^ There is only one acceptable candidate – both local and experienced – on a shortlist of half a dozen, and it’s an STV election, which can throw up all sorts of things.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ This harlot is symbolic of the Statue of Liberty, the Queen of England, Golda Meir, the Prime Minister of Israel.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Sir Humphrey, The Bed of Nails Jim: Will you please recommend to the Prime Minister that we set up an immediate Leak Inquiry.
.^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Ministerial Broadcast Jim: A party political spells instant boredom, I think it should be a Ministerial broadcast, you know, a Prime Minister addressing his people, but I'll do it into the camera, like a party political.
^ Personally never had a problem with Pinochet as he had the right attitude to communists, namely shoot them.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
This form of address is employed at formal occasions but is rarely used by the media.
.^ Yes, that’s the Lady; and what a Prime Prime minister she was.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Those civil servants may be always kowtowing to daddy but they never take any notice of him.
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Since "Prime Minister" is a position, not a title, he or she should be referred to as "the Prime Minister" or (e.g.) "Mr. Blair". The form "Prime Minister Blair" is incorrect but is sometimes used erroneously outside the UK.
Retirement honours
.^ The Tangled Web I am sorry Prime Minister, I cannot become involved in some shabby coverup.
^ As I tried to prove when I wrote some of my earlier comments on this thread, as Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher has never been anti-German.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Power to the People Professor Mariott: Prime Minister, it is an honour to meet you.
.^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, it is the most courageous policy that you have ever proposed.
^ Power to the People Professor Mariott: Prime Minister, it is an honour to meet you.
.^ Yes, that’s the Lady; and what a Prime Prime minister she was.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs Thursday 14 January 2010 .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Jan 2nd, 2010 at 6:48 am Report comment I thought Mrs. Thatcher was a terrible Prime Minister, particularly in her domestic record.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.^ Oh well if we can’t have a real prime minister might as well read about one instead – who knows, one day, in the distant future… .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun.
^ Winston Churchill was a better Prime Minister by several orders of magnitude, and thanks be to God: Britain faced invasion and annihilation during his watch.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
It has also been common for Prime Ministers to be granted
peerages upon their retirement which elevates the individual to the
House of Lords upon his retirement from the Commons. Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an
earldom (which was always hereditary), with Churchill
offered a
dukedom.
[90] .^ When what really happened was that she created a life-long scrap heap in many communities that will last for generations” .- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Sir
Alec Douglas-Home,
Harold Wilson,
James Callaghan and
Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages.
.^ However, I can never accept that Blair or Brown have been anything other than a disaster for the country and its people.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ And the utterances of most of John Major’s closest allies on Blair’s wars made it perfectly clear where he himself stood, although he should have said it himself.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Margaret Thatcher's son
Mark is a
baronet, which he inherited from his father
Denis, but this is not a peerage.
.^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey: Well you could still be Prime Minister next century.
^ Former two-term (i.e., eight-year) governor both of a primary school and of a comprehensive school.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
Former Prime Ministers who are still living are:
See also
Notes
- ^ House of Commons Information Office - Ministerial Salaries
- ^ Le May, 98–99. Walter Bagehot, an authority on 19th century British government, said this unity is "the efficient secret" of its constitution. Bagehot's description of the "efficient part" of the British constitution is quoted by Le May and many other standard texts: "The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. No doubt, by the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution consists in the entire separation of the legislative and executive authorities, but in truth its merit consists in their singular approximation. The connecting link is the Cabinet ... A Cabinet is a combing committee — a hyphen which joins a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other."
- ^ King, pages 3–8. King makes the point that much of the British constitution is in fact written and that no constitution is written down in its entirety. The distinctive feature, he says, of the British constitution is that it is not codified.
- ^ Low, p.155. In 1902, for example, Arthur Balfour said, "The Prime Minister has no salary as Prime Minister. .^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.
- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no doubt that the Prime Minister, in many ways, has achieved substantial success.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Bernard: I did say no, the Prime Minister is busy.
This is a strange paradox"
- ^ Low, p. 255 "There is no distinction", said Gladstone, "more vital to the practice of the British constitution or to the right judgment upon it than the distinction between the Sovereign and the Crown."
- ^ Baghot, p. 67
- ^ Low, pages 255–258.
- ^ Knappen, pages 448–451.
- ^ Smith, pages 371–373
- ^ Smith, p. 382
- ^ "Standing Orders of the House of Commons" (PDF). London, United Kingdom: Parliament of the United Kingdom. 16 December 2009. p. 65. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmstords/2/2.pdf.
- ^ Roseveare, p.80.
- ^ Smith, pages 372–373
- ^ Dodd, p 50 There are a few instances of the use of "Prime" or "First" Minister in the 17th century. After the Restoration in 1660, for example, Lord Clarendon was encouraged to assume the title of "First Minister" in the new government rather than accept a specific office. According to the Duke of Ormonde, however, "He (Clarendon) could not consent to enjoy a pension out of the Exchequer under no other title or pretense but being First Minister . . . [an office] so newly translated out of French into English that it was not enough understood to be liked and everyone would detest it for the burden it was attended with."
- ^ Marriott, p. 87.
- ^ Once in office, the Prime Minister fills not only Cabinet level positions but many other government offices (up to 90 appointments may be made today), selected mostly from the House of Commons, distributing them to party members, partly as a reward for their loyalty. The power to make so many appointments to government offices is one of the most effective means the Prime Minister has of maintaining party discipline in the Commons.
- ^ Dodd, p. 79 In 1691, for example, a Lord protested, that "'Cabinet-Council' is not a word to be found in our Law-books. We know it not before: we took it for a nick-name. Nothing can fall out more unhappily, than to have a distinction made of the 'Cabinet' and 'Privy-Council' ... If some of the Privy-Council men be trusted, and some not, to whom is a gentleman to apply? Must he ask, "Who is a Cabinet-Counsellor? ... I am sure, these distinctions of some being more trusted than others have given great dissatisfaction.”
- ^ Smith, pages 376–379.
- ^ Marriott, pages 75–76.
- ^ Dodd, p.66 "Is it not hard" Anne said, "that men of sense and honour will not promote the good of their country, because everything in the world is not done as they desire?"
- ^ a b Smith, pages 379–382.
- ^ Marriott, pages 76–83.
- ^ Smith, p. 383.
- ^ See e.g. the various orders prescribing fees to be taken in public offices
- ^ Marriotte, p. 107.
- ^ Smith, p. 384.
- ^ Pike, pages 22–23.
- ^ Smith, p. 385. He worked tirelessly to maintain the King's confidence, and sometimes resorted to bribery. On the accession of George II in 1727, for example, Walpole gave the new King an additional £100,000 for his personal use to maintain his offices.
- ^ Marriott, pages 77–81. The preceding paragraph is a paraphrase of Hearn's famous list of Walpole's contributions to the evolution of the office of Prime Minister in his book Government of England, page 220, quoted by Marriott.
- ^ Smith, pages 385–387
- ^ Marriott p. 86 During most periods of British history, there have been Chief Ministers who have had many of the attributes of a modern Prime Minister such as Dunstan of Glastonbury under Edgar, Ralph Flambard under William II, Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII, and many others.
- ^ a b Marriott, p. 88
- ^ Low, p. 156
- ^ Low, pages 156–157
- ^ The 18th century ambivalence causes problems for researchers trying to identify who was a Prime Minister and who was not. Every list of Prime Ministers may omit certain politicians. For instance, unsuccessful attempts to form ministries — such as the two-day government formed by William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath in 1746, often dismissed as the "Silly Little Ministry" - may be included in a list or omitted, depending on the criteria selected.
- ^ Low, pp. 160-161 In his memoirs, Gleanings, Gladstone lamented the Prime Ministry's unseemly status in the government hierarchy: "Nowhere in the wide world," he said, "does so great a substance cast so small a shadow. Nowhere is there a man who has so much power with so little to show for it in the way of formal title or prerogative."
- ^ Marriott, p 85
- ^ Rozenberg, Joshua (3 June 1998). "UK Politics: Talking Politics — Conventions of the constitution". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/talking_politics/88166.stm. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
- ^ see Tuchman, The March of Folly, pp 127-232 for detailed descriptions of these and other ministries between the years 1760 and 1782
- ^ This event also marks the beginnings of collective Cabinet responsibility. This principle states that the decisions made by any one Cabinet member become the responsibility of the entire Cabinet.
- ^ Low, pp. 141-142.
- ^ Dodd, p. 127
- ^ Pares, p. 175 In a letter to the King written at the same time, North repeated the idea, "That in critical times, it is necessary that there should be one directing Minister, who should plan the whole of the operations of government, so far as to make them co-operate zealously & actively with his designs even tho' contrary to their own."
- ^ Marriott, pp 92-93 Bagehot enumerated the three rights of a constitutional Monarch as "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn"
- ^ Marriott, pp 78-83 Marriott enumerates five characteristics of modern Cabinet Government: 1. exclusion of the Sovereign, 2. close correspondence of party affiliation between the Cabinet and the majority in Parliament, 3. homogeneity of the Cabinet, 4. collective responsibility, and 5. ascendency of the Prime Minister.
- ^ Foord, p. 1.
- ^ Foord, p.1 Laughter followed Hobhouse's remark but George Tierney, a leading Whig, repeated the phrase and added a definition. "My honourable friend," he said, "could not have invented a better phrase to designate us than that which he has adopted, for we are certainly to all intents and purposes a branch of His Majesty's Government."
- ^ Except Lord Home, who resigned his peerage to stand in a by-election soon after becoming Prime Minister
- ^ Maitland, p. 354.
- ^ Smith, pages 234–235.
- ^ Smith, pages 37–38,
- ^ Marriott, pages 219–222.
- ^ Pike, pages 188–194.
- ^ Minney, p. 216. These are two of the most exciting years in all of Parliamentary history, filled with drama and a sense that history was being made. Lord Creevey, for example, recorded in his diary, "I dined in Downing Street with Lady Grey . . . After dinner the private secretary to the Prime Minister and myself being alone, I ascertained that although Lord Grey was gone to Brighton ostensibly to prick for Sheriffs for the year, his great object was to put his plan of reform before the King, previous . . . to its being proposed to the House of Commons. A ticklish operation, this! to propose to a Sovereign a plan for reducing his own power and patronage. However, there is the plan all cut and dry, and the Cabinet unanimous upon it . . . Grey is determined to fight it out to a dissolution of Parliament, if his plan is beat in the Commons. My eye, what a crisis!"
- ^ Trevelyan, p.272.
- ^ Marriott, pages 222–223.
- ^ Smith, pages 437–444.
- ^ Smith, pages 454, 468, 486, and 489.
- ^ The last Prime Minister to be a member of the Lords during any part of his tenure was Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home in 1963. Lord Home was the last Prime Minister who was a hereditary peer, but, within days of attaining office, he disclaimed his peerage, abiding by the convention that the Prime Minister should sit in the House of Commons. A junior member of his Conservative Party who had already been selected as candidate in a by-election in a staunch Conservative seat stood aside, allowing Home to contest the by-election, win and thus procure a seat in the lower House.
- ^ Pike, p. 219.
- ^ Rosebery, p. 27. Lord Rosebery, later a Prime Minister himself, said of Peel: "the model of all Prime Ministers. It is more than doubtful, indeed, if it be possible in this generation, when the burdens of Empire and of office have so incalculably grown, for any Prime Minister to discharge the duties of his high office with the same thoroughness or in the same spirit as Peel . . . Peel kept a strict supervision over every department: he seems to have been master of the business of each and all of them . . . it is probable that no Prime Minister ever fulfilled so completely and thoroughly the functions of the office, parliamentary, administrative, and general as Sir Robert Peel."
- ^ Hanham, pages 63–64.
- ^ Even after death their rivalry continued. When Disraeli died in 1881, Gladstone proposed a state funeral, but Disraeli's will specified that he have a private funeral and be buried next to his wife. Gladstone replied, "As [Disraeli] lived, so he died — all display, without reality or genuineness." Disraeli, for his part, once said that GOM (the acronym for "Grand Old Man"), really stood for "God's Only Mistake".
- ^ Bigham, p. 318. Disraeli and Victoria thought the tactic was unconstitutional. “Such conduct", the Queen said, "is unheard of and the only excuse is – that he is not quite sane."
- ^ Pike, p. 389.
- ^ King, pages 319–320.
- ^ Tuckman, p 391
- ^ Following a series of reforms in the 20th century, the Lords now consists almost entirely of appointed members who hold their title only for their own lifetime. As of July 2008 the Lords had 746 members, compared to 646 in the Commons.
- ^ "House of Lords: Breakdown of Lords by party strength and type of peerage". 2008-05-01. http://www.parliament.uk/directories/house_of_lords_information_office/analysis_by_composition.cfm. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
- ^ "House of Commons: State of the parties". 2008-05-23. http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hcio/stateparties.cfm. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
- ^ Smith, p. 477,
- ^ Tuchman, p 365. The Liberal majority was actually much larger in practice because on most issues they could rely on the votes of 51 Labour and Lib-Lab representatives and 83 Irish Nationalists. Their majority was so large and unprecedented — they had more seats than all other parties combined — that one Conservative called it a "hideous abnormality".
- ^ Furthermore, Arthur Balfour, the defeated Conservative Prime Minister and now Leader of the Opposition, declared that the House of Lords was the "watchdog of the constitution"; it had an obligation to promote stability by rejecting "radical" legislation proposed by "zealots" who may have a temporary numerical advantage in the Commons. David Lloyd George, the new Liberal President of the Board of Trade and a future Prime Minister, said the Lords ". . . is not the watchdog of the British Constitution. It is Mr Balfour's poodle!" Smith, p. 478
- ^ Smith, pp 478-480. Although the Liberals did pass the Trade Disputes Bill, the Workmen's Compensation Act, the Labour Exchange Act, the Trade Boards Act, and the House and Town Planning Act, the Lords vetoed an Education Bill, a land reform bill, a Licensing Bill, and a Plural Voting Bill; they mutilated and mauled an Agricultural Holdings Bill and an Irish Town Tenants Bill, and they almost rejected the Old Age Pensions Bill.
- ^ Campbell-Bannerman retired and died in 1908
- ^ Knappen, pp 554-555
- ^ Smith, p. 482,
- ^ Knappen, p. 555
- ^ Chapter 12 Blair's Cabinet: Monarchy Returns, British Government in Crisis, Christopher Foster, Hart Publishing, 2005
- ^ Short launches broadside on Blair, BBC News, 12 May 2003. Accessed April 23, 2006.
- ^ "Blair defends school reform climbdown.". Times Online. February 7, 2006. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2028503,00.html.
- ^ An Encyclopedia of Parliament by Norman Wilding and Philip Laundy
- ^ A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers by Harold Wilson
- ^ Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, YouTube
- ^ Prime Minister Gordon "Celery" Brown arrives at Downing Street, YouTube
- ^ House of Commons Library: Research Paper - Parliamentary pay and allowances
- ^ The Times: 1–2. September 11 2006. The forms "Mr Blair", "Tony Blair" and "Blair" are all used.
- ^ The 2006 Times article above for instance quotes "'Tony has issued an omerta,' a minister told The Times last night."
- ^ For example, in the BBC's transcript of Jon Sopel's interview with Gordon Brown for the Politics Show, Sunday 23 November 2008, Sopel asks questions such as "Prime Minister, you're famous for that phrase, there will be no return to boom and bust."
- ^ Rasor, Eugene L. Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965: a comprehensive historiography and annotated bibliography, p. 205. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-30546-7.
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- Hanchant, W.L. (1943). .^ This harlot is symbolic of the Statue of Liberty, the Queen of England, Golda Meir, the Prime Minister of Israel.
- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Humphrey, The Key We are here to see that the Prime Minister is not confused.
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- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ Your predecessor, the previous Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has just died of a heart attack.
^ And of course she was Britain’s first female prime minister – now we have the likes of Harriet Harman instead, how the world has changed for the worse.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
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- Tuchman, Barbara W. (1966). .^ Nations of the world will fight a fierce war against her, bringing destruction never felt before in the shores of the U.S.A. .
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External links
.^ Are Labour members prepared to defend the rights of this United Kingdom Parliament?- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words: the UK wasn’t always as bad as it became when Tony Blair became the country’s Prime Minister.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
^ The West needs leadership and the British are so good at providing it when they have a strong Prime Minister in office.- The Thatcher papers: 30 years ago, we had a proper Prime Minister – Telegraph Blogs 14 January 2010 13:20 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
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