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	From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':		From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':
	<BLOCKQUOTE>''Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, [[Al Smith]], the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of [[Thomas Jefferson\|Jefferson]], [[Andrew Jackson\|Jackson]], and [[Grover Cleveland\|Cleveland]] down the road under the banners of [[Karl Marx\|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin\|Stalin]]. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, [[Al Smith]], the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of [[Thomas Jefferson\|Jefferson]], [[Andrew Jackson\|Jackson]], and [[Grover Cleveland\|Cleveland]] down the road under the banners of [[Karl Marx\|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin\|Stalin]]. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England.''</BLOCKQUOTE>

			During the late-1970s, when Reagan would have been writing and performing his radio show, the UK's Labour Party Prime Minister was [[wikipedia:James_Callaghan\|James Callahan]].

	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==
	[[wikipedia:Labour_Party_%28UK%29\|Labour Party]]		[[wikipedia:Labour_Party_%28UK%29\|Labour Party]]

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	The Labour Party of the United Kingdom is currently ~~the "Official Opposition" (second largest group~~ of ~~members of Parliament)~~ in the British Parliament. The ~~Labour Party previously controlled~~ the ~~Parliament from 1997 to 2010, the roughly the same time period that Labour Party members Tony Blair~~ (~~1997 - 2007~~) ~~and Gordon Brown~~ (~~2007 - 2010~~) ~~were each Prime Minster~~.		The Labour Party of the United Kingdom is currently one of two main political parties in the British Parliament. The other being the [[wikipedia:Conservative_Party_(UK)\|Conservative Party]]. The control of the government (i.e. the [[wikipedia:List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom\|Prime Minister position]]) has flipped between these two groups since 1922.

	The Labour Party is part of Socialist International. In its founding, the Labour Party had ties to the Fabian Society.		The Labour Party is part of [[wikipedia:Socialist_International\|Socialist International]]. In its founding, the Labour Party had ties to the [[wikipedia:Fabian_Society\|Fabian Society]].

	== Speech Relevance ==		== Speech Relevance ==
	From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':		From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':
	<BLOCKQUOTE>''Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of [[Thomas Jefferson\|Jefferson]], [[Andrew Jackson\|Jackson]], and [[Grover Cleveland\|Cleveland]] down the road under the banners of [[Karl Marx\|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin\|Stalin]]. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England.''</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>''Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, [[Al Smith]], the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of [[Thomas Jefferson\|Jefferson]], [[Andrew Jackson\|Jackson]], and [[Grover Cleveland\|Cleveland]] down the road under the banners of [[Karl Marx\|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin\|Stalin]]. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England.''</BLOCKQUOTE>

	== Source Links ==		== Source Links ==
	[~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Labour_Party_%28UK%29 Labour Party ~~''(Wikipedia)''~~]		[[wikipedia:Labour_Party_%28UK%29\|Labour Party]]

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The Labour Party of the United Kingdom is currently the "Official Opposition" (second largest group of members of Parliament) in the British Parliament. The Labour Party previously controlled the Parliament from 1997 to 2010, the roughly the same time period that Labour Party members Tony Blair (1997 - 2007) and Gordon Brown (2007 - 2010) were each Prime Minster.

The Labour Party is part of Socialist International. In its founding, the Labour Party had ties to the Fabian Society.

== Speech Relevance ==
From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':
<BLOCKQUOTE>''Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]], [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson]], and [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]] down the road under the banners of [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England.''</BLOCKQUOTE>

== Source Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_%28UK%29 Labour Party ''(Wikipedia)'']