13,787 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 137 of 138.
“the New Hampshire primary on 1 February”
“Polls show that voters worry about four social consequences of the economy”
“Of the three issues on which Gore has staked his claim to recognition”
“We’ll probably have four years of George Bush”
“When I taught Gore at Harvard 30 years ago”
“In 1999, new Labour embraced the notion that for-profit private education companies could run both a failing state school (King’s Manor in Surrey) and failing local education authorities (Hackney and Islington).”
“It seems a fairly safe prediction that 2000 will see more private education companies taking over failing state schools.”
“privatised half the country”
“the electorate had voted back into power the socialists (ex-communists) in May of that year”
“Two-thirds of the population wants political change.”
“asking people if they were virgins in 1965 was an amazingly far-out and daring thing to do.”
“Every Scot has no fewer than, count ’em, SEVENTEEN elected representatives at his or her beck and call. They should be the best-served, most pampered and utterly contented constituents in Britain, if not Europe, if not the democratic world…”
“Not surprisingly, moves will be made during the next Westminster parliament to reduce the Scottish representation from 73 to around 50 MPs.”
“Devolution has robbed Scottish MPs of a significant part of their role, Scottish question time in the Commons has been halved to a mere 30 minutes a month”
“The figure of 129 MSPs was arrived at with one first-past-the-post member for each of the 73 parliamentary constituencies, plus seven list MSPs for each of the eight regions.”
“Five list MSPs for each region would produce 40 and reduce the parliament to 113, which is surely big enough for a country the size of Scotland.”
“for example, the Tory party, which did not win a single constituency yet boasts 18 list MSPs”
“or the SNP, which won only seven constituencies – five fewer than the Liberal Democrats – but whose 28 list MSPs make it the main opposition party.”
“A dozen members of the Scottish Parliament still hold Westminster seats, but they will not give up their dual membership until the general election.”
“approximately 90 per cent of the respondents were against the repeal.”
“promised between £500,000 and £1 million to back a campaign against the repeal of Section 28.”
“receives an annual grant of £150,000 from no less than the Scottish executive itself”
“father of four children (three of whom are at state schools)”
“In 1988, the Tory government introduced it as a reaction to graphic gay material”
“The consultation period on Section 28 ended last Friday”
“more than 85 per cent of British fathers”
“close to 50 per cent of main carers of children at home in South Wales in the early 1990s were men”
“the eight-day hijack of one of its national airline flights”
“the last of their three wars in 1971”
“carried out nuclear tests in May 1998”
“caused 20,000 deaths”
“a 500-mile line of control (or temporary border) that was fixed in 1949”
“for at least a generation, and maybe for 20 years or more”
“the next two months before President Clinton visits the region on a trip planned for the end of March”
“the consultation period on Section 28 ended last Friday and it seems that approximately 90 per cent of the respondents were against the repeal”
“Brian Souter, chief executive of Stagecoach and probably Scotland’s richest citizen, promised between £500,000 and £1 million to back a campaign against the repeal of Section 28”
“‘Healthy Gay Scotland’ receives an annual grant of £150,000 from no less than the Scottish executive itself”
“Alan Rodger was the Tory government’s lord advocate between 1992 and 1995.”
“On 22 November, a Texas-based political-risk consultancy called Stratfor put an article on its website headed “Philippines president’s days are numbered”.”
“the city was hit by a four-hour blackout”
“Only last March, his net satisfaction rating (the percentage polling “satisfied” minus those “dissatisfied”) was as high as +67; even last October it was +28. This month, it is down to +5.”
“The people brought President Estrada to power – particularly the poor who make up over 90 per cent of the population – and now they are correcting their mistake.”
“Estrada began the New Year by sacking the 70-odd advisers, abandoning the constitutional reforms and reshuffling his cabinet.”
“Presumably it was this kind of thing that Edgardo Espiritu, the finance secretary, had in mind when he resigned last month, protesting, among other things, about a “culture of corruption” in the government service.”
“Eduardo Cojuangco, who fled the country with Marcos in 1986 and is now president of Estrada’s political party, seized the San Miguel brewery-based business that he used to own.”
“Jose Pardo, who was a well-regarded trade secretary, has been appointed finance secretary.”
“average time in office of a British prime minister in the century just ended was precisely four years.”
“Margaret Thatcher, who ruled for a godfatherly 11-plus years.”
“Helmut Kohl, who spent 16 years as chancellor, four times elected.”
“up to DM2 million is his estimate”
“DM1 million in cash stashed in a suitcase.”
“Mitterrand, who served 14 years as French president in consecutive seven-year terms.”
“seven times prime minister over a 20-year period reaching well into the 1990s.”
“The Queen has so far reigned three times as long as Kohl did.”
“German chancellors are elected to four years in office.”
“Let France confine its presidents to a single seven-year term.”
“Jacques Chirac seeking to carry on for 14 years, like Mitterrand, is alarming.”
“Half of his right-wing supporters are manifestly fed up with him already.”
“Two five-year parliaments at the helm, then out.”
“Several of the cronies were among more than 70 advisers he appointed on his election.”
“But the builders may well get their way, thanks to two government inspectors who produced a blueprint for John Prescott. You might think that plans to transform the country and affect the lives of millions would go through some sort of dem…”
“In a few weeks, John Prescott will produce his own figures. After a brief public consultation he will make his announcement, probably by the summer.”
“In 1959, Joan Littlewood, the actress and director, dreamt of a flexible education and entertainment centre situated on the Isle of Dogs overlooking the “Sweet Thames”.”
“The original plan for the Isle of Dogs eventually got scuppered in 1963.”
“Twenty-three acres of Mill Meads were explored, until it was decided that storm sewerage tanks and a pumping station were required more urgently than a palace devoted to amusement.”
“In 2000, there was still no sign of tanks, pumps or any other structure so urgently needed 35 years ago.”
“One hundred years later, we planned the Dome – and, fast as we ran, it just wasn’t fast enough.”
“Nothing is to last more than ten years, some things not even ten days: no concrete stadia, stained and cracking, no legacy of noble architecture quickly dating . . . The ‘areas’ will not be segregated enclosures.”
“Nearly one-third took advantage of this, and for those situated in the right location, it was an extremely enriching experience:”
“in January 1998 to Robert Mugabe’s Harare.”
“the 78-year-old farmer”
“prime minister until 1902”
“return five months later”
“As early as the 1960s, TV and tabloids”
“the past 20 years”
“in 1900”
“13-hour working day”
“every month”
“in 2100”
“about 800 journalists”
“28cm dildo”
“quarter to third of our population who live below the poverty line”
“in the year 2000”
“updated once or twice every three years.”
“transferring daily transcripts of its proceedings to the web within hours of witnesses having spoken.”
“A month before, State Assembly politicians had attacked each other in the debating chamber with desks and broken bottles”
“around 30 had ended up in hospital with severe injuries”
“As Agnes’s former teacher and a member of parliament, David Ole Sankori, explains: 'We treat wives as our juniors. In fact, we equate them with children who must be corrected by beating. We say, ‘if you spare the rod, you spoil the wife’.'”
“Fifteen per cent is a sizeable chunk of the electorate in any political language.”
“Most of all, it has managed to hold an otherwise sophisticated nation, over 20 years, to political ransom.”
“Le Pen’s massaging of the 10 per cent who are part of France’s permanent proto-fascist rump into 15 per cent of electoral support has induced paranoia in France’s mainstream right.”
“one in six French voters supported Le Pen, fully aware of his contempt for democracy.”
“they studied similar organisations in eight countries”
“within a few months, after acknowledging that 550 people had been executed, he ordered the firing squads to stop.”
“In the mid-1960s Castro himself admitted to 25,000 political prisoners. Some anti-Castro groups put the figure at 60,000.”
“The Cuban Committee for Human Rights, established more than 20 years ago, estimated that in 1991 there were 3,000 political prisoners; some observers believe the number may now have dropped to 500.”
“It produced two rigorously sourced volumes in February 1991.”
“it concluded that 1,158 people had died at the hands of agents of the state or others operating from political motives and that 957 had disappeared.”
“last year, Human Rights Watch placed Cuba at the top of its list of states violating human rights in Latin America not because of the viciousness of any individual crimes, but because of the depth and the breadth of repression.”
“The last Conservative leader of the opposition, Margaret Thatcher, had eight years’ experience in real and shadow cabinets, including four gruelling years as education secretary”
