Harold Wilson Quotes
Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there is a flash of steel between the shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
Margaret Thatcher has been one of the more dramatic examples.
Harold Wilson, 1916–1995, British Prime Minister (Labor), Description of the British Conservative Party which has had a habit of voting very popular Prime Ministers of their own party out of office.
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With so many revolutionary rulers of new nations suppressing all opposition, the history of Ataturk and Turkey is unique. Ataturk was so popular and his People’s Party so successful that there was no opposition and Turkey had one party rule. However, Ataturk was determined to have Turkey become a parliamentary democracy as good as the Western nations of Europe. So a tradition of multi-party democracy was needed. So Ataturk actually went to his friend Fethi Okyar and asked him to start an opposition party and oppose the government. Fethi was a strong supporter of the revolution and generally was in concurrence with Ataturk and the People’s Party on everything. Ataturk however convinced him that they had to start a tradition that would take Turkey through the future, and he did create a new party-- Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party) and worked hard to find differences with the People’s Party and the Government. One immediate contribution was the oversight that the new party provided—a strong tradition that exists to this day in Turkey.
Republican Party primary elections had become very contentious. The radical right and the Tea Party, though a minority of the party, had the power to destroy almost any Republican candidate’s chances. So those Republican political candidates were forced to pander to the extreme right and then try and backtrack to the center for the general election. As a result, few people believed the statements of Republican office seekers as no one knew what they really believed including members of their own party, Bush, no longer running for any political position, found himself with much more credibility and influence in the party than those who were running for office. The problem of appealing to party extremes was not unique to the Republicans at that time, but the degree and extent was unprecedented accounting for the distrust.
The National Park Service had traditionally estimated the crowd sizes of Washington DC events and protests and mad them public, After the Donald Tump Inaguration, they followed the usual procedure using the Internet and tweeting the size of the crowd. Howevert, the resultrs showed that the crowd for the Trump inaguaration crowd size was smaller than that of Barak Obama and even George W. Bush. Trump, very sinsitive to any thing that he believed diminished him, then as one of his early adminsiotrative acts as Chief Executive, ordered the the Park Service to stop doing any indpendent tweeting or other public statemetns about crowd size, He was particualry worried that the Women's March the Next Day would show the protesting women outdrawing his inaguaration. Baltz was specualting with other political journalists and pundits on how the Park Service bureaucracy would react to the heavy censorship over relative trivia imposed by the new president.
This statement was made more than 1/2 a year after he was pushed out of his job of WHite House Cheif of Stafff by President Donald Trump
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. Wilson was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983.
