John Major

Major was something of a disappointment but he did have a small majority, which makes it easy for boat rockers, manipulators with agendas and brown envelopes. This can be a good thing; it all depends on what they are trying to do to us or even, just possibly for us

John Major ex Wiki
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Sir John Major, KG, CH, ACIB (born 29 March 1943) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997, during which time he was also Leader of the Conservative Party. He held the posts of Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from the 1979 general election to the 2001 general election. Although Major proved "a great disappointment to Thatcher", he was her preferred choice as successor as she expected to "continue in control of the country as a backseat driver".[1]

Early in his term, Major presided over British participation in the Gulf War in March 1991 and claimed to have negotiated "Game, Set and Match for Britain"[2] at the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991. Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history (14 million) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons. He is the most recent Conservative leader to win an outright majority of constituencies in a general election.

Major's premiership saw the world go through a period of political and military transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the rise of the European Union, an issue which was already a source of friction within the Conservative Party owing to its importance in the decline and fall of Margaret Thatcher. Major and his government were responsible for the United Kingdom's exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after Black Wednesday on 16 September 1992, after which his government never gained a lead in the opinion polls.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s, the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing "sleaze" scandals involving various MPs and even cabinet ministers. Criticism of Major's leadership reached such a pitch that he chose to resign, and be re-elected, as party leader in June 1995. By this time, the "New" Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair; and, after eighteen years in office, the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the largest electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

After the defeat, Major resigned as the leader of the party, and was succeeded by William Hague. He has since retired from active politics, leaving the House of Commons at the 2001 general election. He is now the oldest living former British Prime Minister.
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Less disastrous than Blair. The 'sleaze' that followed on with Blair made Major's lot look like amateurs. A lot of it was Propaganda.

With the Carlyle Group later.

 

Major Concerned That Boris Might Get A Grip  [ 27 September 2019 ]
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Sir John Major said on Thursday evening he feared Boris Johnson’s Government would try to bypass legislation requiring a Brexit extension by using an order of the Privy Council.

In a speech critical of the Government, the former prime minister said the move, which could be accomplished without the Queen’s consent, would be a “piece of political chicanery that no one would forgive or forget”.

He said: “My fear is that the Government will seek to bypass Statute Law by passing an Order of Council to suspend the Act until after 31 October,” adding that such a move would be “in flagrant defiance” of Parliament and “utterly disrespectful” to the Supreme Court.

Sir John raised the hypothetical scenario as a possible explanation for Mr Johnson’s apparently contradictory statement that he would not break the law but would still take the UK out of the European Union by Oct 31, making good on his “do or die” promise.

Under the Benn Act – repeatedly dubbed the “Surrender Bill” by Mr Johnson in the Commons on Wednesday – the Prime Minister must ask the EU for an extension to Article 50 if no deal has been secured by Oct 19.
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Major sides with the Mutineers, the criminal conspirators in Parliament who hate Democracy. Is the man a fool or a rogue? Boris still has the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which adequately covers sabotage by MPs and corrupt rulings by the Supreme Court. Cromwell did not put up with this kind of nonsense from Parliament; nor should Boris.