Sir james golfsmith biography of rory

He was enormously generous, and fiercely loyal to the causes he espoused. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Forgot your password? Retrieve it.

James Goldsmith Politician — Photo Credit ». Who was James Goldsmith? Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web! Add a New Bio. Powered by CITE. Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. In the early s, with the removal of Margaret Thatcher from the United Kingdom 's Prime Ministerial office by the Tories , and their enactment into law of the Maastricht Treaty , Goldsmith, who up until that time had retained close links with the Conservative Party, came to the conclusion that it was no longer a serious political vehicle to oppose the European Union 's advancing power, and that opposition would have to be created within the party political system beyond its current order of the Conservative , Labour and Liberal Democrats parties, all of which supported the United Kingdom's incorporation into the European Union.

As the mids progressed Goldsmith involved himself in British politics, appearing with increasing regularity in the political press, and in domestic political televised debates, raising opposition to the nature of the European Union and what he perceived was mainstream media culpability in playing down its supranational ambitions, and pouring scorn on a Westminster parliamentary political order that he stated had failed the nation and was now wilfully betraying its governmental sovereignty.

During the electoral campaign Goldsmith had mailed to approximately five million homes a VHS video cassette film to allow him to address the electorate free from the editorial control of the nation's mainstream media, having previously rejected the idea of by-passing the United Kingdom's legal restrictions on the broadcast of political information by the means of an offshore radio station named "Referendum Radio".

At the general election , Goldsmith stood as a candidate for the Referendum Party in the London constituency of Putney , against the former Conservative minister David Mellor , MP, in an electoral contest in which Goldsmith polled 3. The declaration of the Putney result, which was televised and nationally broadcast live on the night of 1 May , saw a charged atmosphere at the count, with a rowdy crowd in attendance of anti-European Union activists from the Referendum Party, and the recently inaugurated UK Independence Party which would itself receive only a couple of hundred votes in Putney that night.

An acrimonious confrontation between Mellor who had lost his seat to the Labour Party candidate and Goldsmith developed on stage after Mellor, in what was to be his valedictory address from politics, personally insulted Goldsmith's candidacy. During the speech, part of the crowd, Goldsmith and some of the other candidates began a gleefully defiant collective repetitive shouting chant of "Out!

Goldsmith's electoral performance at Putney had been reasonably insubstantial, in a British electoral culture in which it is notoriously difficult for new political parties or maverick politicians to establish themselves. He was also terminally ill during the election, a fact which he had kept secret beyond his closest personal circle, and which had limited his ability to campaign.

However, many of the Referendum Party's activists and voters would go on to join and support the nascent UK Independence Party , which would ultimately lead a sea-change in the nation's politics, which almost twenty years later would see the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union in a referendum on the issue. Goldsmith was married three times.

Goldsmith is reported to have replied, "Well, I am not in the habit of marrying [Red] Indians". Her only child was delivered by caesarean section and survived. They divorced in but shared a house in Paris until his death, and he built her a house on his Cuixmala estate. In he married his mistress Lady Annabel Birley , by whom he had already had two children, Jemima and Zacharias ; they later had a third child, Benjamin.

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