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Derek Hatton (born 17 January 1948 in Liverpool) is a broadcaster, businessman and after-dinner speaker. He won celebrity as a local politician in Liverpool, England, during the 1980s. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Location within England Coordinates: , Country United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
Location within England Coordinates: , Country United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government - Type Metropolitan borough, City - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area - Borough & City 43. ...
He attended Liverpool Institute for Boys from 1959 to 1964, having passed the 11 plus examination. His academic success was subsequently limited, but he enjoyed sports and appeared on stage as Gratiano in the school play, Merchant of Venice with the future theatre producer Bill Kenwright. The Liverpool Institute for Boys is an all-boys school in Liverpool, England. ...
The Eleven Plus is an examination given to students aged 11 since about 1944 in some parts of the United Kingdom to select whether they go to a grammar school or to a secondary modern. ...
Shylock and Jessica by Maurycy Gottlieb (1856-1879) The Merchant of Venice is a famous comedy (note: at the time the play was written, comedy had a very different meaning; see Shakespearean comedies) by William Shakespeare, written at an uncertain date between 1594 and 1597. ...
Bill Kenwright CBE (born 4 September 1945, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is an actor and producer. ...
By then a fireman by occupation, Hatton became a member of the Labour Party and later the high-profile deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in 1983. Hatton was the most vocal, prominent member of the council's leadership and a member of Militant tendency, a Trotskyist organisation then pursuing entryist tactics within the Labour Party. The Leader of the council, John Hamilton, was a quietly spoken but much admired and passionate non-Militant socialist member, with great standing in the Liverpool party. The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ...
See City of Liverpool for other meanings Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. ...
It has been suggested that Militant (Britain) be merged into this article or section. ...
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely. ...
John Hamilton (1922 – December 14, 2006) was a British politician. ...
Hatton championed the Militant tendency policy that the council should declare an illegal "deficit budget" and claim back £30 million "stolen" by central government. Once adopted by the Liverpool District Labour Party and a broad coalition of 49 councillors on the Liverpool city council (reduced to 47 by the deaths of two councillors), this policy catapulted Hatton and the city council into media attention and conflict with the Conservative led central government.
Hatton was expelled from the Labour Party in 1986 for belonging to the Militant tendency, which Hatton argued was a legitimate Marxist organisation within the Labour Party, but the National Executive Committee of the party voted to expel Hatton by 12 votes to 6, the move being a policy aim of Neil Kinnock and the reformers around him. [1] Hatton claims that the faults and disasters of his time in office were the result of the policy of the Thatcher government, and that the Kinnock-led national Labour Party should have supported the Council's demand for the "return" of the £30 million "stolen" from the council as a result of unfairly reduced government rate support grants for Liverpool. The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the UK Labour Party. ...
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. ...
After his expulsion from the party, Hatton pursued a career in the media, presenting a show on radio station Talk Sport, and appearing on such television programmes as Have I Got News For You, where he was given a particularly rough ride by regular panellist Paul Merton, who mocked his apparent aspiration to be a comedian. Hatton even began modelling menswear; he had worked in a men's tailoring shop as a teenager, and was famous during his time as a politician for his well-tailored suits. [2] The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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Paul Merton (born Paul Martin 9 July 1957[1]) is an English actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on the BBC TV show Have I Got News for You and Radio 4s Just a Minute, as well as Channel 4s Whose Line...
Hatton presented the lunchtime phone-in on 105.4 Century FM when it launched in 1998, titled "The Degsy Debate". The BBC2 fly-on-the-wall documentary Trouble at the Top followed the station's launch, and Hatton's training. In broadcasting, a phone in is where viewers or listeners air comments on-air via telephone, often regarding a specific topic of discussion for that day. ...
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BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and...
Trouble at the Top was a BBC television fly on the wall documentary broadcast on BBC2. ...
Hatton claimed that he was the inspiration for the character of Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) in the acclaimed Alan Bleasdale television drama G.B.H., broadcast by Channel 4 in 1991. [3] In the 1990s, he worked as Talk Radio's morning phone-in presenter [4]. In 1996, he was the subject of a BBC documentary, My Brilliant Career. [5] Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born December 13, 1949)) is an English actor known as Robert Lindsay. ...
Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television dramatist, best known for several powerful social drama serials based around the lives of ordinary people. ...
G.B.H. was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale, made by independent production company G.B.H (Films) and shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4, and repeated in July-August 2006 on More4. ...
talkSPORT is the only dedicated national commercial sports and talk radio station, based in London, broadcasting to the United Kingdom providing sports talk, live commentaries, phone-in discussion and talk shows. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
Derek Hatton now works as a motivational speaker [6] and is Chairman of the new media company Rippleffect. His son Ben Hatton is its managing director.
It was reported in the Liverpool Daily Post in May 2007 that Hatton has stated that he has recently rejoined the Labour Party and that he intends to seek selection as a parliamentary candidate in the North West. Hatton also says that his ambition is to be Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and that he would run for the office in the summer in the unlikely event of him being able to enter parliament via a by-election. Hatton made clear that he is no longer a Trotskyist, but maintains that he remains firmly on the left of the party, expressing his belief that Labour has to abandon 'New Labour' ideology (or "neo-Tory", as Hatton puts it) and return to its traditional values. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
For other uses, see Tory (disambiguation). ...
Sources
- Derek Hatton Inside Left: The Story so Far [auto-biography], London: Bloomsbury, 1988. ISBN 0747501858
- Michael Crick The March of Militant, London: Faber, 2nd edition 1986. ISBN 0571146430
I once farted on derek Hattons head at a football match.
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