"Which English Prime Minister coined the phrase ""the unacceptable face of capitalism""?"
"spouses of former prime ministers: Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the wife or husband of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To date, there have been forty-four women and two men who have been married to British prime ministers in office. There have also been four bachelor and nine widower prime ministers; the last bachelor was Edward Heath (1970–1974) and the last widower was Ramsay MacDonald (1924, 1929–1935). The Duke of Grafton (1766–1768) is the only Prime Minister to have divorced and remarried while"
"of shareholders. Rowland's 20% holding in Lonrho and further proxy votes would allow him to retain his position on the board and at the general meeting, Smallpeice and the seven fellow directors were voted off the board. The behaviour of Lonrho was described by the Prime Minister Edward Heath as """"the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism"""" in a House of Commons debate on 15 May 1973, and the company was eventually subject to an enquiry by Inspectors from the Department for Trade and Industry, which reported in 1976. Smallpeice and the seven other directors were dubbed """"the straight eight"""""
"that capitalism is rotten to its foundations, and must give place to a new society. I had a lecture, the principal heading of which was ""Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not kill"", and I pointed out that as a consequence of the robbery that goes on in all civilised countries today, our respective countries have had to keep armies, and that inevitably our armies must clash together. On that and on other grounds, I consider capitalism the most infamous, bloody and evil system that mankind has ever witnessed. My language is regarded as extravagant language, but the events of"
"Prime Minister, Peter Fraser of the Labour Party, amended the regulations. Marshall's political philosophy, which was well-defined at this stage, was a mixture of liberal and conservative values. He was opposed to laissez-faire capitalism, but was equally opposed to the redistribution of wealth advocated by socialists – his vision was of a property-owning society under the benign guidance of a fair and just government. Marshall's politeness and courtesy were well known, and he was sometimes nicknamed ""Gentleman Jack"". He disliked the aggressive style of some politicians, preferring a calmer, less confrontational approach. These traits were sometimes misinterpreted as weakness by"
"spokesman for UKIP was reported as saying that Bloom's remarks were being ""discussed right at the very highest level of the party"". After refusing to apologise, he later said he regretted the comments but clarified it by saying that whilst he intended it to be derogatory, he regretted that it had caused offence and he didn't mean it to be racist. Party leader Nigel Farage later asked him not to use the phrase again. In an interview in August 2013, Bloom described Prime Minister David Cameron as ""pigeon-chested; the sort of chap I used to beat up."" During a LBC"
"The Alliance for Workers' Liberty opposed AV, arguing that it did not offer progress on the party's main democratic demands. Prime Minister David Cameron of the Conservative Party and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats made speeches backing the 'No' and 'Yes' campaigns respectively on the same day, but were thereafter not expected to take much part in the campaigns, although both were active since. Cameron described AV as ""undemocratic, obscure, unfair and crazy."" He was praised for his intervention by back-bench Conservative MPs. Former Labour foreign secretary Margaret Beckett was president of the No to AV"
"week, Duncan Smith gave a speech to mark the tenth anniversary of his Centre for Social Justice in which he said that areas of the country were being ghettoised by long-term unemployment and had remained largely hidden from the rest of society. Conservative MP Simon Hart raised the subject of ""Benefits Street"" at Prime Minister's Questions on 15 January, saying that a street of the type seen in the series existed ""in every constituency in the land"". Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron responded that the government should ""intervene in people's lives"" to get them off benefits and into"
"up for the untouchables"", at a meeting of the West Essex Conservative Association specially convened so Churchill could explain his position he said, ""It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle-Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace... to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor."" He called the Indian Congress leaders ""Brahmins who mouth and patter principles of Western Liberalism."" In Parliament on 26 January 1931, he attacked the Government's policy, saying that the Round Table"
"The comments were criticised by union leaders, among them the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Brendan Barber: ""The problem with the UK economy is not its workers, but a severe lack of jobs."" The Labour Party urged British Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron to distance himself from the views, and the Shadow Secretary of State for Business Chuka Umunna commented: ""First they blame British businesses for their economic failures and now they blame the people who work within them, showing how out of touch the Tory party has become."" Speaking later to ""The Guardian"" one of"
"the phrase ""New Labour"", to distance it from previous Labour policies and the traditional conception of socialism. Blair declared support for a new conception that he referred to as ""social-ism"", involving politics that recognised individuals as socially interdependent, and advocated social justice, cohesion, the equal worth of each citizen, and equal opportunity, also referred to as the Third Way. Critics of Blair denounced him for bringing the Labour Party towards the perceived centre ground of British politics, abandoning 'genuine' socialism and being too amenable to capitalism. Supporters, including the party's public opinion pollster Philip Gould, stated that (after four consecutive"
"understand — if she does not yet understand she soon will — that the penalty for treachery is to fall into public contempt?"", the Prime Minister replying that she found his remarks ""deeply offensive"". Along with other Unionist MPs, Powell resigned his seat in protest and then narrowly regaining it at the ensuing by-election. In 1987, Prime Minister Thatcher visited the Soviet Union, which signified to Powell a ""radical transformation which is in progress in both the foreign policy and the defence policy of the United Kingdom"". In a speech in the Commons on 7 April, Powell claimed the nuclear"
"Prime Minister. As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he believed in the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed economy, championing a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand and pursuing corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. Benefiting from favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high—if uneven—growth. In his Bedford speech of July 1957 he told the nation they had 'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation, summing"
"themselves."" Politics in late Victorian Britain moved in directions that Spencer disliked, and his arguments provided so much ammunition for conservatives and individualists in Europe and America that they are still in use in the 21st century. The expression 'There is no alternative' (TINA), made famous by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, may be traced to its emphatic use by Spencer. By the 1880s he was denouncing ""the new Toryism"" (that is, the ""social reformist wing"" of the Liberal party – the wing to some extent hostile to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, this faction of the Liberal party Spencer compared"
"Unionist Progressive Party. The influential Conservative Edward du Cann said that ""the Labour party is hopelessly and irrevocably split and muddled over this issue"". The ""No"" campaign included the left wing of the Labour Party, including the cabinet ministers Michael Foot, Tony Benn, Peter Shore, Eric Varley, and Barbara Castle who during the campaign famously said ""They lured us into the market with the mirage of the market miracle"". Some Labour ""No"" supporters, including Varley, were on the right wing of the party, but most were from the left. The No campaign also included a large number of Labour backbenchers;"
"and he is as uneasy as I am. He wrote a letter to the Press about it, and the ""Times"" refused to publish it. He often criticised Labour Party policies and said to Morgan: ""Have you read Henderson's speech about a capital levy? It's rank piracy"". During a discussion on 6 May 1919 Morley remarked: ""I see Lloyd George has invited the Irish ""republicans"" to a conference. It's an act of inconceivable folly—he, the King's Prime Minister!"" When the House of Lords were debating the Fourth Home Rule Bill Morley said to Morgan on 6 January 1921: I should have"
"grew boring and unattractive. Furthermore, he drifted to the right of the Liberal party and became a bitter critic of its policies. Winston Churchill, observing that he never adapted to democratic electoral competition, quipped: ""He would not stoop; he did not conquer."" Rosebery was a Liberal Imperialist who favoured strong national defence and imperialism abroad and social reform at home, while being solidly anti-socialist. Historians judge him a failure as foreign minister and as prime minister. Archibald Philip Primrose was born on 7 May 1847 in his parents' house in Charles Street, Mayfair, London. His father was Archibald Primrose, Lord"
"was Lord Coleraine. In January 1970, Sir Edward Heath held a brainstorming session of the shadow cabinet at The Selsdon Park Hotel near Croydon, Surrey. The aim of the meeting was to formulate policies for the 1970 General Election manifesto. The result was a radical free market agenda, condemned by the then Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, as the work of ""Selsdon Man"". Wilson lost the subsequent General Election to Heath. After a short period, however, Heath abandoned the 1970 manifesto in the face of bitter opposition from the trade unions. This historic U-turn was the catalyst for the formation"
"smile."" Spencer Perceval was the Tory Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1811 when the poem was written. He was a conservative who endorsed a rigorous prosecution of the war against France which resulted in widespread poverty and dissent on the home front. He was assassinated in 1812. He castigates the ministers and officials in a monarchy: ""Ye cold advisers of yet colder kings/To whose fell breast no passion virtue brings/Who scheme, regardless of the poor man’s pang,/Who coolly sharpen misery’s sharpest fang,/ Yourselves secure."" They achieve fame and obtain the spoils of war while the people they rule"
"as a public measure to alleviate unemployment. Winston Churchill, the Conservative Chancellor, took the opposite view: It is the orthodox Treasury dogma, steadfastly held... [that] very little additional employment and no permanent additional employment can, in fact, be created by State borrowing and State expenditure. Keynes pounced on a chink in the Treasury view. Cross-examining Sir Richard Hopkins, a Second Secretary in the Treasury, before the Macmillan Committee on Finance and Industry in 1930 he referred to the ‘first proposition’ that ‘schemes of capital development are of no use for reducing unemployment’ and asked whether ‘it would be a misunderstanding"
"Prime Minister, maintained the censorship of editorial opinions on public policy, but allowed the BBC to address matters of religious, political or industrial controversy. The resulting political ""talk series"", designed to inform England on political issues, were criticized by Members of Parliament, including Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George and Sir Austen Chamberlain. Those who opposed these chats claimed that they silence the opinions of those in Parliament who are not nominated by Party Leaders or Party Whips, thus stifling independent, non-official views. In October 1932, the policemen of the Metropolitan Police Federation marched in protest of a proposed pay cut."
"(37.5%), whilst duties on alcohol, petrol and sugar were hiked, and a 60% tax on excess profits was introduced. Simon's political position weakened as he came to be seen as a symbol of foot-dragging and lack of commitment to total war. Along with Labour's dislike of Chamberlain he was used as an excuse by the Opposition parties for not joining the government on the outbreak of war. Archibald Sinclair, leader of the ""official"" Liberal Party, said that for over seven years Simon had been ""the evil genius of British foreign policy"". Hugh Dalton and Clement Attlee were very critical of"
"phrase ""social fascism"" to describe the modern British development of the corporate state and its bureaucratic attack on personal liberty. The question is not therefore: ""is Mr. Foot a fascist?"" but ""does Mr. Foot know he is a fascist?"" During the Grunwick dispute, in which went on strike over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward refused to recognise their trade union, there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph. Tebbit involved himself in that dispute by making a controversial speech on 12 September"
"nor has he changed his position that he, as President, would not have gone to war without greater international support."" The term ""U-turn"" in the United Kingdom was famously applied to Edward Heath, the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974. Prior to the 1970 general election, the Conservative Party compiled a manifesto that highlighted free-market economic policies. Heath abandoned such policies when his government nationalised Rolls-Royce (hence the actual ""U-turn""). The Conservative government was later attacked for such a move because nationalisation was seen (by the Thatcher era) as antithetical to Conservative beliefs. This later led"
"explicitly pro-capitalist stance. Symbolically in the UK, the socialist clause, Clause four, was removed from the Labour Party constitution, in 1995. A similar change took place in the German SDP. However, particularly after the coming to power of British Premier Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and US President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many social democratic party leaders were won to the ideological offensive which argued that capitalism had ""won"" and that, in the words of Francis Fukuyama's essay, capitalism had reached ""the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of"
"Face"" interview on the BBC ""The Late Show"" (21 March 1989). He said ""Looking back now I see that I was driven out of the Colonial Service. I think possibly for political reasons that were disguised as clinical reasons"". He alluded to this in an interview with Don Swaim, explaining that his wife Lynne had said something ""obscene"" to the Queen's consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, during an official visit, and the colonial authorities turned against him. He had already earned their displeasure, he told Swaim, by writing articles in the newspaper in support of the revolutionary opposition party the"
"the formation of an anti-reform government. ""The Times"" called the BPU ""the barometer of the reform feeling throughout England"", while Attwood himself was dubbed ""King Tom"" by William Cobbett and described by Francis Place as ""the most influential man in England"". On 9 May 1832, after the Great Reform Act had been vetoed by the House of Lords, the then Prime Minister, Earl Grey, handed in his resignation. He was replaced by the Duke of Wellington, a Tory, who opposed the Reform Act. Lord Grey commented that Wellington was a man who ""didn't understand the character of the times"", referring"
"human dignity and the environment, and for the major role he has played in helping to stabilise the world's financial system"". Speeches Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. A doctoral graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Brown spent his"
"re-nationalisation of recently privatised industries like British Telecom, British Aerospace, and the British Shipbuilders Corporation. The manifesto was based on an earlier and much longer policy paper with a similar title, ""Labour's Plan: the New Hope for Britain"". The epithet referred not only to the orientation of the policies, but also to their marketing. Labour leader Michael Foot decided as a statement on internal democracy that the manifesto would consist of all resolutions arrived at in its party conference. The document's more left-wing policies, along with the popularity gained by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the successful outcome of"
"In 1986 he related that ""All my experiences with capitalism, I'm afraid, have indicated that it encourages some of the worst features in people. Eat or be eaten. It is underlined by the survival of the fittest. I can't buy that. I mean, maybe it's the awful face of capitalism, but I haven't seen the other face."" Also in the 1980s, he was reported as saying that ""apartheid has given free enterprise a bad name"". While identifying with socialism, he opposed forms of socialism like Marxism-Leninism which promoted communism, being critical of Marxism-Leninism's promotion of atheism. Tutu has often used"
"intervention in the economy from the early 19th century with passage of the Factory Acts. From around 1840 to 1860, ""laissez-faire"" advocates of the Manchester School and writers in ""The Economist"" were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace, but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, although advocates of ""laissez-faire"", non-intervention in foreign affairs and individual liberty, believed that social institutions could be rationally redesigned through the principles of utilitarianism. The Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin"
"hotels, distribution, and textiles, and many other lines of business. During 1973, Rowland's position was the subject of a High Court case in which eight Lonrho directors sought Rowland's dismissal, due to both his temperament and to claims he had concealed financial information from the board. Rowland failed in his legal attempt to block the move but was subsequently backed by shareholders and retained his position. British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, referring to the case, criticised the company in the House of Commons and described events there as ""the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism"". In 1983, Rowland took over"
"individuals to be able freely appropriate property, but he claimed that acquisition of wealth did not imply that an individual could do whatever they wanted to once that wealth was in their possession. Green opposed ""property rights of the few"" that were preventing the ownership of property by the many. Ethical socialism is an important ideology of the British Labour Party. Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee supported the ideology, which played a large role in his party's policies during the postwar 1940s. Half a century after Attlee's tenure, Tony Blair, another Labour Prime Minister, also described himself as an adherent"
"imperialism on the British experience of Empire. The term ""imperialism"" was originally introduced into English in its present sense in the late 1870s by opponents of the allegedly aggressive and ostentatious imperial policies of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Supporters of ""imperialism"" such as Joseph Chamberlain quickly appropriated the concept. For some, imperialism designated a policy of idealism and philanthropy; others alleged that it was characterized by political self-interest, and a growing number associated it with capitalist greed. John A. Hobson, A leading English Liberal, developed a highly influential interpretation of ""Imperialism: A Study"" (1902) that expanded on his belief"