Conservative Monday Club
The Conservative Monday Club (allmänt känt som the Monday Club) är en högerorienterad brittisk tankesmedja och lobbygrupp med kopplingar till Konservativa partiet.[1] Gruppen grundades 1961 av fyra medlemmar i det konservativa partiet och förespråkar, vad de kallar för, "traditionella konservativa värderingar".
Medlemmar
[redigera | redigera wikitext]1970 var 18 parlamentsledamöter medlemmar i klubben:[2]
- Geoffrey Rippon (Hexham)
- Julian Amery (Brighton Pavilion)
- Ronald Bell QC (South Buckinghamshire)
- Harold Gurden (Selly Oak)
- Teddy Taylor (Glasgow Cathcart)
- John Peyton (Yeovil)
- Paul Williams (Sunderland South)[3]
- Duncan Sandys (Streatham)[3]
- Joseph Hiley (Pudsey)
- John Biggs-Davison (Chigwell)
- Stephen Hastings (Mid Bedfordshire)
- Victor Goodhew (St Albans)
- Wilfred Baker (Banffshire)
- Jasper More (Ludlow)
- Jill Knight (Edgbaston)
- Patrick Wall (Haltemprice)
- Mark Woodnutt (Isle of Wight)
- Sir Jerry Wiggin (Weston-super-Mare)
Källor
[redigera | redigera wikitext]- Copping, Robert, No Punches Pulled - Britain Today, Current Affairs Information Service (CAIS), Ilford, Essex, n/d but probably circa 1970 (P/B).
- Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club - The First Decade, (i) (Foreword by George Pole), Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex, April 1972 (P/B).
- Copping, Robert, The Monday Club - Crisis and After, (foreword by John Biggs-Davison, MP), (ii) CAIS, Ilford, May 1975 (P/B).
- Rose, Professor Richard, Politics in England - Persistence and Change, London, 1st published 1965. 4th edition 1985, p. 301, ISBN 0-571-13830-6
- Heffer, Simon, Like the Roman - The Life of Enoch Powell, London, 1998, ISBN 0-297-84286-2 (many references to the Monday Club).
- Coxall, Bill, and Lynton Robins, Contemporary British Politics, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, 1993 reprint, (P/B), Monday Club profile on p. 239. ISBN 0-333-34046-9
Noter
[redigera | redigera wikitext]- ^ Thurlow, Richard, Fascism in Britain, London, 1st edition 1987, revised reprint 2006, p.246, ISBN 1-86064-337-X where the author also refers to "traditional party supporters feeling intensly alienated by the Heath administration and made their opposition felt through their support of Enoch Powell".
- ^ Copping, 1972, p. 21.
- ^ [a b] Copping, Robert, The Story of the Monday Club - The First Decade, London: Current Affairs Information Service, April 1972