Political Party Factions in the United Kingdom: Political Party Factions in Scotland, Powellism, Blairism, 79 Group, Socialist Appeal

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Political party factions in Scotland, Powellism, Blairism, 79 Group, Socialist Appeal, Gaitskellism, Cobhamites, Cornerstone Group, Grenvillite, Socialist Campaign Group, Labour Representation Committee, Bedfordite, Ultra-Tories, Brownism, Green 2000, Bevanism, Green Left, Respect Renewal, Patriot Whigs, Foxite, Progress, Beveridge Group, Revolutionary Policy Committee, Canningite, Socialist Party Scotland, Hughligans, Adullamites, Rockingham Whigs, 55 Group, Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland, Association of Socialist Greens. Excerpt: Powellism is the name given to the political views of Conservative and Ulster Unionist politician Enoch Powell, which derive from his High Tory and libertarian outlook. The word Powellism was, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, coined by The Economist on 17 July 1965. However the day before Iain Macleod had reviewed a book of Powell's speeches entitled A Nation Not Afraid in The Spectator in which he mentioned the word: Enoch Powell has the finest mind in the House of Commons. The best trained and the most exciting. There is an attitude of mind which can be called Powellism and it is excellent that now we have the evidence collected in a book. The word was originally used to describe Powell's views on economics, and Powell offered his own definition: an almost unlimited faith in the ability of the people to get what they want through peace, capital, profit and a competitive market. Powell was a romantic British nationalist and viewed the nation state as the ultimate political reality. There is no political reality beyond it. He believed the British Parliament to be the expression of the British nation and his opposition to British membership of the European Economic Community stemmed from his belief that it would abolish the sovereignty of the British state and nat...