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unusual facts about Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition agreement



Dick Guidry

He suggested that actress Jane Fonda and former Black Panthers figure Eldredge Cleaver, before the latter's conversion to conservatism, were "re-gloating and celebrating" the communist triumph.

Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Fixed term parliaments were introduced by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 following the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement promulgated after the 2010 election, thereby abolishing the ability of the Prime Minister to unilaterally call an election prior to the expiry of the five-year term.

Ed Scogin

Scogin was also active in promoting environmental conservation and was once referred to by a colleague as "the conservative conscience" of the legislature.

Mayor of Mega-City One

Tony Blore in "Day of Chaos" is an obvious reference to Tony Blair, while the Illiberal Progressive/Liberal Conservative marriage refers to the then-recent Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition agreement.

Melinda Schwegmann

In 1997, she won a special election to the Louisiana State House of Representatives, District 98, from the Orleans Parish Lakefront, a predominantly African American area, previously represented for fifteen years by a conservative Republican Garey Forster.

Texas Education Agency

Thomas Ratliff, a Moderate Republican and the son of former Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant, in 2010 unseated the Bryan dentist Don McLeroy, a former education board chairman who was the leader of the conservative bloc.

The Nigel Barton Plays

Potter stood as the Labour candidate for Hertfordshire East, a safe Conservative seat, in the general election of 1964, against the incumbent Derek Walker-Smith.


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