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'''David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen''', CH PC FRCP MB BChir (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician.
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'''David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP MB BChir''' is a British politician.  
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Dr David Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990.
 
  
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Lord Owen sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/david-owen-joins-milibands-big-tent-donation-labour-more-%C2%A37500|title=David Owen joins Miliband's big tent with donation to Labour of more than £7,500 |first=George |last=Eaton |work=[[New Statesman]]|date=2 March 2014|accessdate=2 March 2014}}</ref>
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==Career==
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Owen was [[UK Foreign Secretary]] from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat".<ref>''[http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/david-owen-joins-milibands-big-tent-donation-labour-more-%C2%A37500 "David Owen joins Miliband's big tent with donation to Labour of more than £7,500"]''</ref>
  
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==Dr Goody-Two-Shoes==
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==Criticism==
 
[[File:Guardian_1.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Patrick Haseldine]]'s letter was published 14 days before the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie Bombing]] ]]
 
[[File:Guardian_1.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Patrick Haseldine]]'s letter was published 14 days before the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie Bombing]] ]]
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In the ''Observer'' of Sunday 11 December 1988, [[Richard Ingrams]] wrote:
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In the ''[[Observer]]'' of Sunday 11 December 1988, [[Richard Ingrams]] wrote:
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:I switched on the ''Today Programme'' last week to hear a nicely spoken man being cross-examined about the silly plan to make local government candidates in Ulster sign a renunciation of violence before they can stand for office. The man, whom I assumed to be a junior Government Minister of some kind, defended the measure as best he could, saying that he was sure it would be a useful weapon in the battle against terrorism and one which was bound to reduce violence.
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:I switched on the ''Today Programme'' last week to hear a nicely spoken man being cross-examined about the silly plan to make local government candidates in Ulster sign a renunciation of violence before they can stand for office. The man, whom I assumed to be a junior Government Minister of some kind, defended the measure as best he could, saying that he was sure it would be a useful weapon in the battle against "terrorism" and one which was bound to reduce violence.
 
:"Thank you Mr Ashdown," the interviewer concluded after a minute or two. It turned out, to my great surprise, that the speaker was the newly-elected leader of the Democrats and the man who has pledged himself to replace Mr [[Neil Kinnock]] as the Leader of the Opposition. [[Paddy Ashdown]] appears not to have grasped the point that the job of an Opposition leader is to oppose. In this respect, there is nothing to choose between him and his rival Dr David Owen.
 
:"Thank you Mr Ashdown," the interviewer concluded after a minute or two. It turned out, to my great surprise, that the speaker was the newly-elected leader of the Democrats and the man who has pledged himself to replace Mr [[Neil Kinnock]] as the Leader of the Opposition. [[Paddy Ashdown]] appears not to have grasped the point that the job of an Opposition leader is to oppose. In this respect, there is nothing to choose between him and his rival Dr David Owen.
 
:Owen is a natural Tory, as he showed again last week over the case of Mr [[Patrick Haseldine]], the Foreign Office official, who in a letter to ''The Guardian'' last week made a splendid kamikaze attack on [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]] for indulging in 'self-righteous invective' over the [[Patrick Ryan]] case.
 
:Owen is a natural Tory, as he showed again last week over the case of Mr [[Patrick Haseldine]], the Foreign Office official, who in a letter to ''The Guardian'' last week made a splendid kamikaze attack on [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]] for indulging in 'self-righteous invective' over the [[Patrick Ryan]] case.
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:Instead of taking up [[Patrick Haseldine|Mr Haseldine]]'s point and using it as a stick to beat the Government with, as any good Opposition leader would have done, [[Dr Goody-Two-Shoes]] called for [[Patrick Haseldine|Haseldine]]'s immediate dismissal.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2826406893528&l=d0a1bb4e85 "Splendid kamikaze attack on Mrs Thatcher"]</ref>
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:Instead of taking up [[Patrick Haseldine|Mr Haseldine]]'s point and using it as a stick to beat the Government with, as any good Opposition leader would have done, Dr Goody-Two-Shoes called for [[Patrick Haseldine|Haseldine]]'s immediate dismissal.<ref>''[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2826406893528&l=d0a1bb4e85 "Splendid kamikaze attack on Mrs Thatcher"]''</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 04:10, 6 February 2024

Person.png David Owen   Powerbase SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Physician)
David Owen.jpg
Born1938-07-02
Plympton, Devon, England
NationalityUK
Alma materSidney Sussex College (Cambridge)
Children3
SpouseDeborah Schabert
Member ofEuropean Leadership Network, Königswinter/Speakers, Trilateral Commission
PartySocial Democratic Party (UK), Independent
UK politician who attended the 1973, 1982 and 1993 Bilderbergs

Employment.png Leader of the Social Democratic Party

In office
21 June 1983 - 6 August 1987
Preceded byRoy Jenkins

Employment.png Shadow Secretary of State for Energy

In office
14 July 1979 - 4 November 1980
Succeeded byMerlyn Rees

Employment.png Shadow Foreign Secretary Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
4 May 1979 - 14 July 1979
Preceded byFrancis Pym
Succeeded byPeter Shore

Employment.png Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

In office
10 September 1976 - 21 February 1977
Preceded byRoy Hattersley

Employment.png Minister of State for Health and Social Security

In office
26 July 1974 - 10 September 1976

Employment.png Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport

In office
28 February 1974 - 9 April 1992

Employment.png Member of Parliamentfor Plymouth Devonport

In office
28 February 1974 - 9 April 1992

Employment.png Member of Parliamentfor Plymouth Sutton

In office
31 March 1966 - 28 February 1974

David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP MB BChir is a British politician.

Career

Owen was UK Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat".[1]

Criticism

Patrick Haseldine's letter was published 14 days before the Lockerbie Bombing

In the Observer of Sunday 11 December 1988, Richard Ingrams wrote:

I switched on the Today Programme last week to hear a nicely spoken man being cross-examined about the silly plan to make local government candidates in Ulster sign a renunciation of violence before they can stand for office. The man, whom I assumed to be a junior Government Minister of some kind, defended the measure as best he could, saying that he was sure it would be a useful weapon in the battle against "terrorism" and one which was bound to reduce violence.
"Thank you Mr Ashdown," the interviewer concluded after a minute or two. It turned out, to my great surprise, that the speaker was the newly-elected leader of the Democrats and the man who has pledged himself to replace Mr Neil Kinnock as the Leader of the Opposition. Paddy Ashdown appears not to have grasped the point that the job of an Opposition leader is to oppose. In this respect, there is nothing to choose between him and his rival Dr David Owen.
Owen is a natural Tory, as he showed again last week over the case of Mr Patrick Haseldine, the Foreign Office official, who in a letter to The Guardian last week made a splendid kamikaze attack on Mrs Thatcher for indulging in 'self-righteous invective' over the Patrick Ryan case.
Instead of taking up Mr Haseldine's point and using it as a stick to beat the Government with, as any good Opposition leader would have done, Dr Goody-Two-Shoes called for Haseldine's immediate dismissal.[2]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/197311 May 197313 May 1973Sweden
Saltsjöbaden		The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.
Bilderberg/198214 May 198216 May 1982Norway
Sandefjord		The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway.
Bilderberg/199322 April 199325 April 1993Greece
Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel
Vouliagmeni		The 41st Bilderberg, held in Greece

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:The Rossing File:The Inside Story of Britain's Secret Contract for Namibian Uraniumpamphlet1980Alun RobertsScandal in the 1970s and 1980s of collusion by successive British governments with the mining conglomerate Rio Tinto to import yellowcake from the Rössing Uranium Mine in Namibia (illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa) in defiance of international law, and leading to the targeting of UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.
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References

  1. ↑ "David Owen joins Miliband's big tent with donation to Labour of more than £7,500"
  2. ↑ "Splendid kamikaze attack on Mrs Thatcher"
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