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Ramsay MacDonald

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Death86 years ago
Date of birth October 12,1866
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Lossiemouth
United Kingdom
Date of died November 9,1937
DiedAtlantic Ocean
Spouse Margaret MacDonald
Children Malcolm MacDonald
Ishbel MacDonald
Alister Gladstone MacDonald
Party Independent Labour Party
BooksSocialism and Society
Socialism and Society, Parliament and Revolution
Socialism and Government ...
Famous British Political Speeches
Socialism and Government Vol I
Previous positionMember of Parliament of the United Kingdom (1936–1937)
Education London School of Economics and Political Science
Birkbeck, University of London
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James Ramsay MacDonald FRS was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.

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... Stanley Baldwin said, were shown by the rates of the best way to combat unemployment as well as tariff-changes that are not introduced in any case , which promised to wheat, meat, oats, flour, cheese, butter or eggs, the Conservative Manifesto also: The rates were led by the newly resurrected work of Ramsay Macdonald, who said the call for an election, has, how, after a year of barren effort, the Conservative government had confessed his inability to deal with the problem of unemployment ...

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December is a choice: What difference does winter make up?

Feb 16,2020 5:08 am

MPs have voted in favour of a General election on may 12. December. The UK elections usually held in may or June - in The Last December election, 1923 was the year - So What difference could make a winter campaign?

Are fully booked all the choice local?

the elections are great organizational benefits. A million polling cards are distributed. Absentee ballot to be sent. And thousands of school halls, churches and community centers need to be booked, the choice local.

The concern is that many of these locations will already be booked out, in mid-December for the Christmas events.

Laura Lock, The Association of Electoral administrators, says her members have been making phone calls, and many of the usual locations already have bookings.

"We find the choice of local," she told BBC Radio 4 's Today programme - But they might not be where you expected it to be. The voters could cast their ballots in garages or caravans-find out awnings.

And the counting of votes that takes many hours and relies on temporary employees, can also take place, also temporary locations.

bad weather keeps people on the vote?

This is a permanent idea, which feels instinctively right. In the cold and damp December weather, surely people will be less turn be inclined to agree.

But , experts say, there is no evidence from the UK to assume that the bad weather keeps people from voting.

research from the University of Oxford are to be found virtually no correlation between The Weather and the Turnout - instead, people are more likely to vote if the election race is close and there is a strong difference between the leading parties.

you are far votes are less likely to if it feels like a Foregone Conclusion , or the main candidates seem to be relatively close in the political perspective.

What about the shorter days?

make As in the case of polling, the shorter days in the winter, a logistical challenge for election organizers.

Some are already planning to buy in temporary lighting for polling-rail inputs, the lock according to Ms.

you can also consider, with a choice of local Parking, and trails, in the event of bad weather.

As if the shorter days make people vote, we have no evidence.

Prof Sir John Curtice of Strathclyde University told the BBC that in the post-war period there have been two winter elections in February, and both had a high Turnout .

the Two shorter days and bad weather can make life difficult for the people to knock on doors during The Campaign .

it Could stop students voting?

It has been suggested that the choice in mid-December, shortly before the end of the term, the vote impact on the students. Students can be registered to vote at home, But still at the University or College on the day of the election, or Vice versa.

According to the Higher Education policy website WonkHE, December 16 is The Most common end-of-term date for universities in the UK, But many finish it. Only a handful of finish prior to the 16 of December and before the expected election date.

The Last election in 2017 was similar to that close to the end of the Summer term, with some institutions cope with the teaching and other. YouGov polling suggests that 70% of the students were made to vote in their home constituency, rather than their time-the time, address.

students may be required to vote at both your home and Semester addresses, they are in different constituencies. You can only vote once, although casting is More Than a vote in a Federal election is a crime.

If an election date is known, should students have time to register to vote in the appropriate location.

What is with The Last December election?

almost a century ago has, since The Last time the UK went to the polls in December.

voters, at 6. In December 1923 had a choice of the major parties, including Stanley Baldwin , Conservative, Ramsay Macdonald ' s Labour and H. H. Asquith Liberal Party .

The result is perhaps as A Warning to the Prime Minister tries to call an early election. Mr Baldwin Tory at Bonar Law had replaced after he fell ill and resigned earlier this year.

Under Mr. Law, the Tories won the election in 1922 and sat in The Commons with a healthy majority. But Mr Baldwin wanted his own mandate.

And while he did win The Most seats, the election produced a hung parliament. Within weeks, labour, under Mr. MacDonald, would be The Party for the first time, the government, in agreement with the liberals.

It would take only 10 months, before a further election was held in October 1924, the Conservatives won by a Landslide .



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