William Charles (Bill) Walker was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party member of Parliament from 1979 to 1997 and one of the Maastricht Rebels against the embattled administration of John Major during the mid-1990s. The Scottish Unionist Party is a name of two organisations, one now subsumed into the UK Conservative Party, and the other being a recent creation in response to the Conservatives support of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Maastricht Rebels were MPs of the then governing Conservative Party who refused to support the government of John Major in a House of Commons vote to secure ratification by the United Kingdom of the Maastricht treaty (Treaty on European Union). ... The Right Honourable Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a twat who served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the September 11 attacks in 2001. ...
He was first elected in the 1979 general election as the member for Perth and East Perthshire. In 1983 he became MP for the newly-formed Tayside North, a seat he held until being defeated by the Scottish National Party's John Swinney in 1997. The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. ... Perth was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1950. ... United Kingdom general election, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) (PÃ rtaidh NÃ iseanta na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a centre-left political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. ... John Swinney John Swinney is the former leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
He was elected Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservatives in June 2000.
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History of the constituency from Scottish Politics
'Convincing' win for right-winger, BBC News, 19 June 2000
Bill Cash organised for one MP (BillWalker) who was seriously ill to fly from Scotland secretly, then hid him at the rebels headquarters in Great College Street, before with Labour connivance hiding him in the family room of the Commons so that the Conservative Whips wouldn't know, consequently the government lost the vote.
On 22 July 1993, on a Labour amendment to postpone incorporation of the Treaty until the Government adopted the 27th Amendment thereto (the Protocol on Social Policy or "Social Chapter"), the government tied 317-317 against the combined forces of some of the rebels, the Labour party, the Liberal Democrats and others.
Bill Cash was absolutely fundamental to the rebellion, organising the finance and offices to set up the European Foundation and to fund legal challenges to the government.
Walker's own story was that he had been studying the Arabic language and the Koran in Yemen and Pakistan, and that in May of 2001 he made his way to Afghanistan and fell in with Osama Bin Laden's al-Queda terrorist network.
Walker's parents, Frank Lindh and Marilyn Walker, say their son, strongly influenced by The Autobiography of Malcolm X, dropped out of school as a teen and converted to Islam, adopted the name Suleyman al-Faris and eventually moved to the Middle East to study language and religion.
Walker was committed to Stephen A. Douglas's popular sovereignty theory, and believed that the majority of Kansans favored admission to the Union as a free state.
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