Conservative Party of Canada

The entering of the United States led invasion was a decision that ultimately led to the embarrassment of the party and leader Tony Blair. If the party were only an election machine it would not take defiant stances on issues that over time could hurt the party such as Iraq did. During the course of the Iraq invasion one can see the support was continuing to fall. If New Labour were an election machine it would not have involved itself…

called the Iron Lady. She was born on October 13 1925 and she was the Conservative Party’s leader. 1979 she was elected as prime minister. Her beliefs and policies caused her to become unpopular with her party and many citizens of the UK. Baroness Thatcher resigned from her position due to her unpopularity in 1990. She died on April 8 2013 at the age of 87 years old. Similarly Boris Johnson is also a member of the conservative party, he is the current Mayor of London and is a subject of…

construct meaning in his speech on Margaret Thatcher? After the death of Margaret Thatcher, many people from all backgrounds expressed their views on her controversial time as Prime Minister, one of whom was Boris Johnson, current Mayor of London and a Conservative MP. In a highly provocative speech, Johnson did not criticise Thatcher and her actions but instead expressed his respect and admiration for her, criticising her opponents. He presents his views by creating a rapport and using…

Miss Lottie’s old house symbolizes the deterioration of the entire nation during the Great Depression while the marigolds she plants represent hope in the face of despair. Firstly, having Joey deciding to go to Miss Lottie’s house, Lizabeth describes the house as “... was the most ramshackle of the ramshackle homes… The boards boards themselves seemed to remain upright not being nailed together but rather from leaning together like a house that a child might have blown it down…” (pg. 257).The…

to the Labour Party Manifesto, in order for the country to remain strong the British people need to feels secure in the strength of the borders and the communities around them. The Labour Party does not want to cut Britain off from the rest of the world, as people coming to Britain benefit the economy, but they do want to regulate and manage the system of immigration. Low skilled migration has been increasingly high and must be brought down to benefit the economy. The Labour Party intends to end…

Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first and only female Prime Minister, which would pave the way for female politicians in Great Britain. Her nickname the Iron Lady would resonate with world because of her conservative values and her quest to end socialism. Mrs. Thatcher would come head to head with the IRA in the early 1980s. “All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. They [the IRA] should be wiped off the civilized world.”…

In 1984 Brian Mulroney led the Progressive Conservative party to a resounding electoral victory, gaining more than fifty percent of the vote, a rare feat in Canadian federal politics (Blake, 2007: 3). He promised to take the country, which was then suffering from an economic recession, in a new direction, as politicians often do. By the time he left office in 1993 he was one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers in Canadian history. But the politics of the time do not speak to the breadth and…

conflict resolution mechanism in order for it to work. The ability to go about these changes would be extremely difficult due to the need for a constitutional amendment, a requirement that is regarded as being necessary according to the Supreme Court of Canada The discussion of an amendment to the Constitution to allow for an elected Senate appears to be an impossible as well by the declaration by the province of Quebec that it is unwilling to negotiate on the issue…

greatest proponents. WOLA (2016) lists that La FARC fighters would have disarmed, handing over their weapons to United Nations inspectors, who would ensure that the political group would give up their arms. They would have become a legal political party with five seats in both houses of congress in the 2018 and 2022 elections which would have had an impact on the political agenda of the country in the future. Another aspect is that those who confessed to their crimes in detail would not serve…

look at the ever-flowing stream of Canada history, there is a bunch of memorable giants showing up successively, Diefenbaker, William Lyon Mackenzie, John MacDonald and Pierre Trudeau, these names are probably engraved deeply in every Canadian’s brain. However, there is another guy should be memorised, Stephen Harper. Harper is an often-underestimated Canadian politician, and he became his country's first conservative prime minister in 13 years when he led his party to victory in January of…