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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: February 09, 2004, 02:28:51 PM »
I'm all for fair trade, in other words protecting vunerable industries and being nice to poor farmers in the Third World.
This is mostly a result of my religious beliefs.

BTW in the early C20th "Free Trade v Protection" was the political issue.
Look up the 1906 election in the U.K for more info.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2004, 03:02:44 PM »
Peel was backstabbed by his own backbenchers over the repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840's, but Free Trade as an issue really set fire with Joseph Chamberlain("Radical Joe")'s "free trade loaf v protection loaf speech" in the early C20th.
It caused the Balfour Government to fall in 1905 and resulted in the Liberal landslide of 1906.
BTW Churchill became a Liberal as a result of the issue. He re-ratted in the 1920's.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2004, 04:12:56 AM »
Full Employment still is a major goal of the Labour Party, BTW.
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