Political Parties Disestablished in 2004 - Natural Law Party, Primrose League, Reform Party of Alberta, Forum Party of Alberta (Paperback)

Chapters: Natural Law Party, Primrose League, Reform Party of Alberta, Forum Party of Alberta, Alberta First Party, Environmental Green Political Assembly, Fishing Party, Marxist Party, Party of Hellenism, Liberal Party, Secular National Dravida Party, Nagaland Democratic Party, Balchder Cymru. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Primrose League was an organisation for spreading Conservative principles in Great Britain. It was founded in 1883 and active until the mid 1990s. It was finally wound up in December 2004. It has been unofficially relaunched in Birmingham since 2008. Its aims (published in the Primrose League Gazette, vol.83, no.2, March/April 1979) were: The primrose was known as the "favourite flower" of Benjamin Disraeli, and so became associated with him. Queen Victoria sent a wreath of primroses to his funeral with the handwritten message: "His favourite flowers: from Osborne: a tribute of affectionate regard from Queen Victoria." On the day of the unveiling of Disraeli's statue all Conservative members of the House of Commons were decorated with the primrose. A small group had for some time discussed the means for obtaining the support of the people for Conservative principles. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff said to Lord Randolph Churchill, "Let us found a primrose league." A meeting was held at the Carlton Club shortly afterwards, consisting of Churchill, Wolff, Sir John Gorst, Percy Mitford, Colonel Fred Burnaby and some others, to whom were subsequently added Satchell Hopkins, J. B. Stone, Rowlands and some Birmingham supporters of Burnaby, who also wished to return Lord Randolph Churchill as a Conservative member for that city. These founding members assisted in remodelling the original statutes, first drawn up by Wolff. Wolff had...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=132321