13,787 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 127 of 138.
“Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates said that he had agreed with the leader of the opposition to pull forward a set of austerity measures originally planned for 2011.”
“parade 12 lemmings in cages outside the airline’s annual meeting”
“Under a special agreement, all Commonwealth member countries are required to have at least 30% of women representatives in parliament by the end 2006.”
“On 8 May, he announced he would resign if the IRA made no substantial moves towards “putting their weapons beyond use” by 1 July.”
“The situation in Portugal is not the same as in Greece. The debt level is important but the Portuguese did not lie [about their finances].”
“buildings can be no higher than 10 floors or so.”
“Lady Carol Kidu, the only woman holding a seat in PNG Parliament”
“For seven years, British and Irish ministers, the Official Unionist leaders, the nationalist SDLP and even Sinn Fein itself have repeated that Sinn Fein, as the representative on political earth of the IRA, could not be part of peace talks…”
“The leader of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, described the advice to governors as a 'desperate last throw' by the government.”
“Four workers from Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian mining group, have been detained by Chinese authorities in Shanghai without explanation.”
“the only non-indigenous woman to enter politics in PNG.”
“two Sinn Fein MPs are ministers in government.”
“The company said yesterday it is concerned about the arrest on Sunday of the Shanghai-based staff.”
“has twice been elected to parliament.”
“In Northern Ireland, the SDLP struggles; it, too, could be a loser in the 7 June elections, and could even lose its predominance in the Catholic-nationalist community to Sinn Fein.”
“Rio Tinto said it “intends to co-operate fully with any investigation the Chinese authorities may wish to undertake and has sought clarification on what has occurred”.”
“She will run for election again in 2007.”
“The party’s chief whip in the assembly, Eddie McGrady, finally took on the Sinn Fein view that Ireland would be united when Catholics outbred Protestants in Northern Ireland, an outcome it expects within the next decade.”
“It was coined in 1991 by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont”
“In the Irish Times, McGrady deplored the “plight of the communities where Sinn Fein currently dominates, where people’s freedom of expression is quashed”, and added that stability cannot be achieved “by a crude head-count based on the reli…”
“Barely 16 per cent of Westminster MPs have their own websites”
“only a fifth of its members have websites”
“42 per cent have their own websites, compared with 12 per cent of Tory MPs and 16 per cent of Labour MPs”
“Five of Plaid Cymru’s 16 assembly members have sites”
“As the Christmas tree lights were switched on, the Japanese parliament passed a new act designed to create what they describe as 'electronic government', meaning full ministerial support to wire up every home in Japan.”
“The old Establishment – the 'iron triangle' of power held by the state bureaucracy, the banks and the major industrial groups, Japan Inc – is beginning to break up after ten years of pretending that change could come without pain.”
“In the words of Hisamitsu Arai, the highly sophisticated deputy minister at the ministry of international trade and industry: 'We are in the process of a revolution. It will take time, but there is no turning back. Japan is changing.'”
“just eight days after John Major lost the 1997 election”
“30 per cent of voters used the net to decide how they voted”
“The Duma’s decision was a curious one. It decided only on the music of the national anthem, which is to be the Soviet hymn music written by the composer Alexander Alexandrov during the last war. The words are still at issue.”
“The other version, which currently leads the field, is – incredibly – by the writer of the words of the original Soviet anthem, Sergei Mikhalkov. Now in his late eighties and recently remarried to a woman a third his age...”
“Not only did it cost us £6bn, but we get blamed every time the 8.02 from Surbiton is late. And now we are going to have to fork out all this money to keep the system going. Gordon is going to be furious and he’ll try to stop us giving the …”
“Scalia, 64, is the extreme right-wing member of the Supreme Court appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986; Breyer, 62, is the most recent appointee to the court, having been one of two selected by Bill Clinton (or, indeed, any Democratic presid…”
“not to mention the pitiful Justice Clarence Thomas, appointed by George Bush Sr in 1991.”
“the nine votes of the Supreme Court were counted”
“the 36 days of America’s bloodless civil war of 2000”
“Last Monday, an international anti-capital-punishment petition with 3.5 million signatures was handed over to Kofi Annan in New York.”
“By 1.16am, he and Fox decided they should be the first on the air to announce that Boy George had won Florida”
“Clinton would not be there to hand over presidential power peacefully on 20 January.”
“Mr Gore will echo Gerald Ford’s speech in similar circumstances 24 years ago when he told Americans that ‘Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not men.’”
“in 1989 increased taxation on cigarettes, besides banning them in restaurants and many public areas.”
“wading into a 6,000-strong conference of evangelical Christians at Brighton”
“I spent the early hours of last Wednesday poring over its 65 pages”
“Having halted the counting of 43,000 uncounted votes in Florida at the weekend”
“the 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court”
“the 76-year-old Chief Justice William Rehnquist”
“appointed to the court by Richard Nixon 28 years ago”
“notify all 67 counties in the state”
“just two hours before a midnight deadline”
“the Supreme Court itself had halted more than three days before”
“the US Supreme Court ruling that followed 35 days later”
“Justice Antonin Scalia – a 64-year-old Reagan appointee”
“Clarence Thomas, at 52 the youngest member”
“James Baker, Boy George’s 70-year-old frontman”
“the nine Justices”
“seven out of the nine Justices were appointed by Republican presidents”
“six of the seven state Justices there being chosen by a Democrat governor”
“in perhaps its darkest hour, in 1857”
“only LBJ’s Voting Rights Act of 1965 started to remedy this”
“first president who won fewer votes than his opponent to assume office since 1888”
“the necessary two-thirds Senate ratification”
“the 43rd US president”
“in the intervening two hours between the issuance of the verdict and what the court deemed to be the midnight deadline”
“more than 100 years later”
“95 per cent”
“Now 85, Lord Young of Dartington still works from a small office in Bethnal Green in east London.”
“drafted the manifesto not only for 1945, but also for 1950”
“He part company with Labour in 1951”
“about 200 journalists attended his initial press conference”
“He was secretary of the policy committee of the Labour Party and drafted the manifesto not only for 1945, but also for 1950.”
“He part company with Labour in 1951, having failed to persuade the party of the usefulness of his idea for a consumer advisory service.”
“Tony Blair enthusiastically endorsed social entrepreneurship when he first became Prime Minister, saying: “We will be backing . . . those people who bring to social problems the same enterprise and imagination business entrepreneurs bring …”
“Yet, so far, according to Young, all he’s seen from the government has been “a lot of talk but no real action”.”
“He would like ministers to encourage the study of social entrepreneurship in colleges and universities, and to establish a central fund that could help with starting up new enterprises.”
“The newly formed Democratic Alliance, cobbled together only six months ago, garnered an impressive 22.5 per cent of the nationwide vote, as well as consolidating its control of the Western Cape.”
“We focused on white areas and, off the record, made sure we scared the living daylights out of them.”
“The survey found that the majority of white South Africans rejected the value of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: 77 per cent of black South Africans believed it was an important initiative for nation-building, against just 29 per …”
“Only 50 per cent of white South Africans indicated any willingness to participate in nation-building.”
“97 per cent of the vote”
“90 per cent of the seats for less than 45 per cent of the vote”
“1985-88”
“A million more people in work”
“total claimant unemployment set to fall below a million for the first time since the mid-1970s”
“working families tax credit has made it fruitful for parents to take on part-time work, providing they do at least 16 hours a week”
“one in three men aged between 50 and 65 is not working, compared to one in six in 1980”
“During the 1990s, a man in this age bracket became 20 per cent more likely to be out of the labour force, while a woman aged 25-34 became 20 per cent less likely”
“by 2020, there will be two million fewer people in the 16-50 age group and two million more who are over 50 but below state pension age”
“worst floods for 50 years”
“In Nazareth, Islamists hold half of all the seats – not a mean achievement in a town where 40 per cent of residents are Christian.”
“Tony Blair really means it when he says that he wants to stop writing people off at 50 – a milestone that he himself will reach two years into the next parliament”
“A white paper setting out public policy towards the changing communications world is to be published before Christmas.”
“This month’s white paper is not, as might be expected, simply a product of Chris Smith’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is a co-production between it and the Department of Trade and Industry.”
“This month’s white paper is not, as might be expected, simply a product of Chris Smith’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport.”
“The Queen’s Speech on 6 December will be necessarily concise.”
“Next February will mark the fifth anniversary of the publication of Sir Richard Scott’s report on arms to Iraq.”
“From the moment Cook was forced to allow sales of a batch of Hawk fighter aircraft to Indonesia two months after the election, his “ethical dimension” to foreign policy was undermined.”
“Surveys show a huge majority of voters (87 per cent in an opinion poll last February) in favour of the immediate introduction of tighter controls.”
“(This does not mean the unions are out of touch with their members, because only 8 per cent in that age group are union members.)”
“(A white paper on strategic export controls was first published by the DTI in 1998.)”
“more than three million people voted for the anti-corporate candidate Ralph Nader in the presidential election”
