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Austin Vernon Mitchell (born 19 September 1934[citation needed]) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in England. September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Great Grimsby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Mitchell was educated at Bingley Grammar School, the University of Manchester and Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. He is a Eurosceptic[citation needed] and opposes the Common Fisheries Policy. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
The University of Manchester is a large university located in Manchester, England. ...
College name Nuffield College Named after Lord Nuffield Established 1937 Sister College None Warden Stephen Nickell Undergraduates None Graduates 74 Homepage Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. ...
The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
The Socialist Campaign Group is a left-wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom. ...
Euroscepticism is scepticism about, or disagreement with, the purposes of the European Union, sometimes coupled with a desire to preserve national sovereignty. ...
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the fisheries policy of the European Union. ...
While lecturing in sociology at the University of Canterbury, Mitchell wrote a popular book about New Zealand, The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise (1972). The book title became a phrase in the New Zealand English lexicon. Thirty years later, in 2002 he wrote Pavlova Paradise Revisited, after another New Zealand expedition. In the 1960's and 70's, New Zealand was a socialist laboratory. In the 80's and 90's, it was transformed into an open market economy. These drastic changes provided ample subject matter for social analysis. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
This page is about the New Zealand University. ...
The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise was a popular book by Austin Mitchell, published by Whitcombe and Tombs (Christchurch, 1972), with illustrations by Les Gibbard. ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
New Zealand English (NZE) is the English spoken in New Zealand. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...
// Economic Profile Since 1984 the government of New Zealand has accomplished major economic restructuring, moving an agrarian economy dependent on concessionary British market access toward a more industrialized, free market economy that can compete globally. ...
He became an MP with a by-election in 1977, after the death of the previous MP, Tony Crosland, at the time identifying himself as a Gaitskellite. Immediately before being elected he was a presenter of Yorkshire Television's regional news programme Calendar. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (1918-1977) was a British politician and Labour member of Parliament. ...
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (April 9, 1906 – January 18, 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. ...
Yorkshire Television is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas. ...
Calendar is the local news programme for Yorkshire Television. ...
Mitchell is widely credited with bringing television cameras to the Houses of Parliament. The move opened the proceedings of the house to the wider public, who previously had only been able to follow via newspapers, and, from 1978, radio. The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, England is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business. ...
In October 2002 he temporarily changed his name to Austin Haddock as haddock is a staple catch for his constituents that was suffering a decline and it was his wish to promote it. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Binomial name Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Haddock is a marine fish distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic. ...
In 2007 Mitchell wrote a front-page article for The Independent newspaper in which he criticised the treatment of a family of asylum-seekers in his constituency. This article quoted him as saying that certain correspondents on the subject to the website of the local newspaper, the Grimsby Telegraph, were 'lumpen lunatics'.[1] The Grimsby Telegraph covered the response in which it stood by the MP but also reported that a number of readers had called for his resignation. [2] The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...
Austin lives with his second wife, the journalist and author Linda McDougall.
Notes - ^ http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2204089.ece.
- ^ Grimsby Telegraph, Friday, February 2, 2007, pp1, 4-5
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