List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1945-1950: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945: Clement Attlee (Labour), Winston Churchill (Conservative), Ernest Brown (National Liberal), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Richard Acland (Radical Action), Harry Pollitt (Communist), Bob Edwards (Independent...
To be down with the kids, I think.
They also probably thought that 'NewLabour' was a more concrete stance than merely being oppositional to Labour, as 'New Labour' seemed to imply. A Matt McCarten quote from 1989: "But danger also lies within the name New Labour. That danger is the tendency to...
13 seats, then down to 7. The Greens (now quite centrist and in alliance with Outdoor Recreation and Ban 1080 and people like that) have been getting between 1 and 4% since 1999 and haven't broken through, however they still have a minority of left-Greens involved and split the left-of-Labour...
Something a little different, although still - alas - political.
List of Alliance MPs
The victory of Al Gore in 2000 brought to an end the short-lived post-Cold-War orthodoxy that America was the world's policeman: bent on kicking the shit out of non-white people. Instead, peaceful...