(John) Douglas (Wilson) Carswell (born 3 April 1971) British politician. He is a far-right Conservative Member of Parliament for Harwich. April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Harwich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Carswell is the son of two doctors and spent much of his early childhood in Africa where his parents worked, he was educated at Charterhouse School and then read history at the University of East Anglia and King's College London. He became a press officer with the Conservative Party in 1997. At the 2001 General Election he was the Conservative candidate at Sedgefield, the constituency of the Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair retained his seat with 26,110 votes, Carswell came second with 8,397. A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ... Charterhouse School is a British public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: History For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ... The famous ziggurats of the student accommodation at Norfolk Terrace, photographed in January 2004. ... Kings College London in London is the largest and second longest serving member college in the federal University of London, with 21,300 registered students (2003-04). ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... Sedgefield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ...

Carswell was elected to Parliament at the 2005 General Election for the constituency of Harwich defeating the sitting Labour MP Ivan Henderson by 920 votes. He made his maiden speech on June 28, 2005 in the debate on the Identity Cards Bill. He is a member of the right-wing Cornerstone Group of Conservative MPs.[1]. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ... The Labour Party has been the principal left wing political party of the United Kingdom since the early 20th century (see British politics). ... Ivan John Henderson (born 7 June 1958) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ... (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... After many years of discussion through successive governments, in 2003 the then British Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that the government intends to introduce a British national identity card linked to a national identity database, the National Identity Register, which ID card detractors fear will track all residents of the...

He co-authored the pamphlet Direct Democracy - Agenda for a New Model Party which was launched on the 13th June 2005.

External links

• Douglas Carswell official site
• Douglas Carswell biography at the site of the Conservative Party
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Douglas Carswell MP
• Direct Democracy - An Agenda for a New Model
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Douglas Carswell MP
• The Public Whip - Douglas Carswell MP voting record