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Notable supporters of Social Credit or "monetary reform" in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s included aircraft manufacturer A. V. Roe, scientist Frederick Soddy, author Henry Williamson, [citation needed] military historian J. F. C. Fuller [7] and Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1928-30 a member of the Labour Government but later the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties. In Canada: Social Credit Party of Canada; Manitoba Social Credit Party; Parti crédit ...
Some of the British monetary reformers, such as Michael Rowbotham, is influenced by the Social Credit-movement. The Money Reform Party [5] [6] was founded by Anne Belsey from Kent in 2005 and deregistered in 2014. [7] Belsey stood for the MRP in the 2006 Bromley and Chislehurst by-election and came last with 33 votes.
In the 1940 federal election many Social Credit Party MPs ran for re-election under the New Democracy party led by former Conservative William Duncan Herridge as part of a joint effort. All 3 New Democracy candidates elected were Social Credit incumbents, Social Credit leader John Horne Blackmore and MPs Walter Frederick Kuhl and Robert Fair ...
Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Social Credit-NZ; Solomon Islands Social Credit Party This page was last edited on 7 September 2014, at ...
Social Credit was below the 12 seats needed for official party status in the House of Commons. However, the six seats would have been just enough to give Clark's government a majority had the Progressive Conservatives formed a coalition government with Social Credit, or had the two parties otherwise agreed to work together.
Weal served as deputy leader of the Social Credit Political League from 1970 until 1972. [1] He worked as a teacher at St Peter's College in Auckland [2] where one of his students, Stefan Lipa was influenced by him in social credit theory and later became the Social Credit Party President between 1979 and 1987.
In 1970, a bitter dispute at the party's annual conference saw Cracknell lose the Social Credit Party's leadership to his deputy, the more confrontational John O'Brien. The 1970 conference was described as "the most vivid example of political bloodletting in public" since John A. Lee had been expelled at the 1940 Labour party conference. [ 13 ]