The BDJ Challenge

It has been a while, so, not least in view of his comment of a previous post, here is another BDJ Challenge.

BDJ, tell us all you know about:

1. The trade unionists and activists who dismissed an attempt to make the nascent Labour Party anti-monarchist;
2. The Order of the Garter;
3. The Order of Merit;
4. The Order of Companions of Honour;
5. The Lord Privy Seal;
6. The Comptroller of Her Majesty’s Household;
7. Peter Shore, including with reference to the Major Government’s decision to scrap the Royal Yacht, and the dispute between Canadian against Spanish fishermen;
8. The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party;
9. The European Coal and Steel Community;
10. Gaitskell;
11. The Treaty of Rome;
12. The Single European Act;
13. The Maastricht Treaty;
14. Bryan Gould;
15. The No2EU – Yes To Democracy list at the 2009 European Elections;
16. The Liberal Party, as it still exists;
17. Bevan;
18. Those Labour MPs who in the 1970s successfully opposed Scottish and Welsh devolution not least because of its ruinous effects on the North of England;
19. Those Labour activists in the Scottish Highlands, Islands and Borders, and in North, Mid and West Wales, who accurately predicted that their areas would be balefully neglected under devolution;
20. The Parliamentary Labour Party that voted against the partition of the United Kingdom;
21. The Attlee Government’s first ever acceptance of the principle of consent with regard to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland;
22. The Wilson Government’s deployment of British troops to protect Northern Ireland’s grateful Catholics precisely as British subjects;
23. The Callaghan Government’s administration of Northern Ireland exactly as if it were any other part of the United Kingdom;
24. The two Ulster Unionist MPs who voted to save the Callaghan Government (both the fact that they did so and the reason why) when both Irish Nationalists abstained;
25. Robert McCartney (ex-MP);
26. The theory of two nations in Ireland;
27. Resistance to enclosure, clearances, exorbitant rents, absentee landlordism, and a whole host of other abuses of the rural population down to the present day;
28. Organisation of farm labourers, smallholders, crofters and others in order to secure radical reforms;
29. The county divisions that predominated among safe Labour seats when such first became identifiable in the 1920s;
30. The working farmers who sat as Labour MPs between the Wars and subsequently;
31. The creation of the Green Belt and the National Parks;
32. The English ceremonial counties;
33. The Scottish lieutenancy areas;
34. The Welsh preserved counties;
35. The Northern Irish counties;
36. Distributism;
37. “Red Ellen” Wilkinson;
38. The Jarrow Crusade;
29. George Tomlinson;
40. Sidney Webb;
41. R H Tawney;
42. Eric Hammond;
43. The restoration of the grammar schools by popular demand, as soon as the Berlin Wall came down, in what is still the very left-wing former East Germany;
44. The successful popular defence of the grammar schools in the Social Democratic heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia;
45. The Labour MPs who defended Catholic schools, and thus all church-based state schools, over several successive decades;
46. The support by national leaders of the Social Democrats for Christian religious instruction in the schools of Berlin;
47. The early Labour activists who resisted schemes to abort, contracept and sterilise the working class out of existence;
48. The Catholic and other Labour MPs, including John Smith, who fought tooth and nail against abortion and easier divorce;
49. Thatcher’s introduction of abortion up to birth;
50. Major’s introduction of divorce legally easier than release from a car hire contract;
51. The Methodist and other Labour MPs, including John Smith, who fought tooth and nail against deregulated drinking and gambling;
52. Those, including John Smith, who successfully organised (especially through USDAW) against Thatcher’s and Major’s attempts to destroy the special character of Sunday and of Christmas Day;
53. The only Commons defeat of Thatcher’s Premiership;
54. Trade union banners depicting Biblical scenes and characters;
55. The action taken by past Labour Governments to arrest the importation of a new working class;
56. The Lindsey oil refinery workers;
57. Attlee’s successful dissuasion of Truman from dropping an atom bomb on Korea;
58. Wilson’s refusal to send British forces to Vietnam;
59. Wilson’s use of military force to safeguard the right of the people of Anguilla to be British;
60. Callaghan’s successful prevention of an Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands;
61. The eventually victorious trade union-based opposition to Communism in the Eastern Bloc (especially Poland) and elsewhere;
62. The eventually victorious non-racial, non-violent, non-Marxist, pro-Commonwealth opposition to apartheid, exemplified by Helen Suzman;
63. Th inclusion of a commitment to the National Health Service in all three manifestos in 1945;
64. Economically populist and pro-manufacturing, morally and socially conservative, staunchly Unionist and pro-military, strongly church-based Toryism;
65. Unyieldingly constitutionalist and civil libertarian Toryism;
66. Keynesian, pro-Commonwealth, anti-neoconservative Toryism;
67. Conservationist, agrarian, anti-nuclear Toryism;
68. Anthony Head (not the actor);
69. Peter Thorneycroft;
70. Nigel Birch;
71. Aubrey Jones;
72. George Jellicoe;
73. Enoch Powell on nuclear weapons;
74. Gaullists;
75. Christian Democrats; and
76. Conservative Democrats.

Remember, we know a Wiki when we see one.

Over to you, BDJ.