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The party was subsequently criticised by some, including Blair himself, as straying leftwards from the centre ground of British politics, [56] and that Miliband was a more traditional left-wing politician. [57] Others disputed this view, and put Labour's loss at the 2015 United Kingdom general election down to the party being too right-wing ...
Buff was the colour of the Whig faction in British politics from the early 18th century until the middle of the 19th century. As such, it is sometimes used to represent the current political left (in opposition to blue, which represented the Tories and then the Conservatives and political right). [41]
Prince's Flag – Dutch patriotism, Greater Netherlands movement, Nostalgia for the Dutch Republic, Pan-Netherlands politics, Far-right politics in Holland; Rainbow flag (LGBT) – LGBT pride, LGBT rights, LGBT movements; Red flag – Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Labour movement, Left-wing politics, Anarchism
British republican flag proposal used within the Chartism movement. A British republican flag, which originated in 1816, in use until at least 1935. [103] British republican flag proposal within the Chartism movement. The Republican tricolour proposed by Hugh Williams in 1838 and described in LJ "Spartacus" Linton's 1851 poem"Our Tricolour". [104]
A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a town in northern England with a big Muslim minority following a contest that was mired in chaos and controversy and dominated ...
However, Evan Smith in Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956, [4] uses the term 'far left' "to encompass all of the political currents to the left of the Labour Party," including "anarchist groups". The scope of this article limits the discussion of far left politics to the period since 1801 i.e. the formation of the United Kingdom.
Ideologically socialist, it was the main forum for left-wing politics within the Labour Party. [25] The main achievement of the Labour government was the 1924 Wheatley Housing Act, which MacDonald dubbed "our most important legislative item". [26] John Wheatley, the minister responsible for the Act, was a member of the Labour left.
During the 1816 Spa Fields riots, a green, white and red horizontal flag appeared for the first time, soon followed by a red, white and green horizontal version allegedly in use during the 1817 Pentrich rising and the 1819 Peterloo massacre. The latter is now associated with Hungary, but then it became known as the British Republican Flag. It ...