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    The Orkney Manifesto Group (OMG) was a minor political party in Orkney, Scotland. The group advocated for politicisation of Orkney Islands Council, believing...
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  • an American actor, rapper and son of Ice Cube Orkney Manifesto Group, a political party based in Orkney, Scotland OMG (gene), encodes the oligodendrocyte-myelin...
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    Orkney (/ˈɔːrkni/), also known as the Orkney Islands or, the often deprecated, Orkneys, is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Part of the...
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    members). After the 2017 election there were 18 independents, 2 Orkney Manifesto Group (OMG) councillors and 1 Green councillor. Of these, 18 councillors...
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    Irish party] New Party (1931–1932) Official National Front (1986–1989) Orkney and Shetland Movement Progressive Party (1920s–1970s) [Scottish party] Revolutionary...
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    Islands Alliance Legalise Cannabis Alliance Natural Law Party No2EU Orkney Manifesto Group Pirate Party UK ProLife Alliance Renew Party RISE Rock 'n' Roll...
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  • Nigel Farage, will fight for our democracy". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 17 August 2020. Walker, Peter (20 March 2019). "Leader of Nigel...
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    The Scottish Greens contested 2 wards in Orkney for the first time. Another group; the Orkney Manifesto Group, ran as a registered party for the first...
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    Elections to the Orkney Islands Council were held on 5 May 2022, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the...
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    Scottish Liberal Democrats would have only won two seats (Edinburgh West and Orkney and Shetland), instead of the four they did win that year, as the expanded...
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    several Independent councillors created their own group within the council called Conwy First. This group later on went to support the council[clarification...
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    Independents, referred to as The Argyll Lomond and the Isles Group (TALIG). Aileen Morton, leader of the group, was elected as council leader. The Scottish National...
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    Kirkwall West and Orphir (ward) (category Wards of Orkney)
    of the Orkney Islands Council. It elects four Councillors. 2022 Orkney Islands Council election 2017 Orkney Islands Council election 2012 Orkney Islands...
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    West Mainland (ward) (category Wards of Orkney)
    of the Orkney Islands Council. It elects four Councillors. 2022 Orkney Islands Council election 2017 Orkney Islands Council election 2012 Orkney Islands...
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  • The 2012 Orkney Islands Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Orkney Council. The election used the six wards created as a result...
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    Jo Grimond (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Orkney and Shetland)
    major in World War II, he was selected by the Liberal Party to contest Orkney and Shetland, the most northerly constituency in the United Kingdom. He...
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  • Cannabis Law Reform (category Political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom)
    its emblem and Cannabis : legalise and utilise served as its election manifesto. The first official LCA candidate in a parliamentary election was former...
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    Parliament in this election included Edward Heath (Bexley), Jo Grimond (Orkney and Shetland), Enoch Powell (Wolverhampton South West), Reginald Maudling...
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  • all its mainland constituencies, retaining only the two constituencies of Orkney and Shetland; it also secured three List MSPs. This was, at the time, by...
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  • Glachan. James Stockan announces he will step down from the post of leader of Orkney Islands Council, as well as relinquishing his council seat, after six years...
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    constituencies of Na h-Eileanan an Iar covering the Western Isles, and Orkney and Shetland, covering the Northern Isles. The SNP ultimately won nine seats...
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    Turnout for the referendum was 60.4%. The referendum was a Labour Party manifesto commitment and was held in their first term in office after the 1997 general...
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  • appointed as leader of Orkney Islands Council, becoming Scotland's youngest council leader and the first woman to lead Orkney Islands Council. 21 February...
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    questions about the future of the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) and the Western Isles, island groups off the Scottish mainland. Some islanders called...
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  • constitution. Its 2001 manifesto included a commitment to lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. In 2013, an internal pressure group in the party called...
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    results—summary results 1885–1979 Archived 8 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine 1922 Conservative manifesto 1922 Labour manifesto 1922 Liberal manifesto...
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  • political parties in Northern Ireland have included the bridge in their manifesto for some time. However, because of the Beaufort's Dyke sea trench which...
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    their consent to receive this kind of direct marketing. Four electors from Orkney and Shetland lodged an election petition on 29 May 2015 attempting to unseat...
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    television broadcasts masterminded by Tony Benn under the umbrella of their manifesto entitled Britain Belongs to You, which accused the Conservatives of complacency...
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    factions of the Labour and Liberal parties, and the group campaigned together under a shared manifesto on a platform of continuing its work addressing the...
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