In the 55th Parliament, only Peter Tapsell ( serving since 1959 ) has served longer, and Gerald Kaufman, Dennis Skinner and Michael Meacher all entered Parliament on the same day.

Michael Hugh Meacher ( born 4 November 1939 ) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Oldham West and Royton since 1997.

Michael Meacher has also written a foreword for David Ray Griffin's book The New Pearl Harbor.

Meacher has also written articles for ePolitix. com, which has included criticism of Blair and Brown for perceived right-wing policies, including privatization.

On 21 April 2007, The Guardian claimed that Meacher had the support of no more than 3 MPs and that his campaign was " virtually dead in the water ".

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

According to Michael Meacher, this change put an end to a previous inequity whereby two families, in otherwise identical circumstances, paid differing amounts of tax “ simply because in one case the child possessed property transferred to it by a grandparent, while in the other case the grandparent ’ s identical property was inherited by the parent .” In 1969, a “ save-as-you-earn ” scheme was introduced, designed to encourage new savings over a contracted period.

The boundaries of two parliamentary constituencies divide Oldham: Oldham East and Saddleworth, and Oldham West and Royton ( which includes the town centre ), represented by Labour Members of Parliament Debbie Abrahams and Michael Meacher respectively.

The decisions of both Michael Meacher and John McDonnell to run for the leadership have been controversial with many annoyed that John McDonnell did not consult with other members of the Socialist Campaign Group, and many others accusing Michael Meacher of trying to split the nominations and keep John McDonnell off the ballot paper, although neither candidate was thought by many to have any chance of winning the Labour leadership.

As Shadow Environment Secretary, he joined in May 2005 with two former environment ministers, the Labour MP Michael Meacher and the Conservative John Gummer, to table a cross-party Early Day Motion No. 178 in support Climate Change Bill drafted by Friends of the Earth.

In the interim Tony Benn co-opted him into the drafting committee for the government ’ s new Industry Act on a committee chaired by Eric Heffer and including Michael Meacher and Tony Benn ’ s economic adviser Francis Cripps.

It is represented in the House of Commons by Michael Meacher, a member of the Labour Party.

It is a safe seat for the Labour Party, having been held by Michael Meacher since the 1997 general election.

During this time he actively pursued environmental causes, introducing an Early Day Motion on Climate Change to Parliament along with Michael Meacher and Norman Baker.

Despite Blair's hostility, Meacher gained a reputation for being a politician who was on top of a complex brief and was one of the longest serving minsters in the same job in the Labour government, from 1997-2003.

On 27 April 2007, it was reported that Meacher had reached an agreement with John McDonnell that on the day Tony Blair announced his resignation, whichever of the two of them had the fewer nominations would step aside and allow the other to challenge Gordon Brown.

In 1988 he lost a libel action against the journalist Alan Watkins, who had written an article in November 1984 which included the remark " Mr Meacher likes to claim that he is the son of an agricultural labourer, though I understand that his father was an accountant who retired to work on the family farm because the life suited him better.

* This war on terrorism is bogus-Michael Meacher MP, 6 September 2003

Meacher withdrew on 14 May 2007, endorsing McDonnell.

* Michael Meacher and Andreas Von Bülow express their serious doubts about 9 / 11

* Video: Meacher says US allowed 9 / 11 to happen

On 23 September 2006, Michael Meacher became the sixth Labour MP to start a blog.

* Michael Meacher ( 1997 – 2001 )

Michael Meacher MP, then strongly aligned with Tony Benn, had written in the Labour Party's Labour Weekly that John Golding, one of those prominent in pursuing the expulsions of Militant supporters, was " bleeding the party's election prospects to death ".

Michael Meacher, who had been Shadow Minister for Environmental Protection within the Shadow Cabinet, was given the non-cabinet position of Minister of State for the Environment and attended cabinet meetings where the Environment was discussed.

He spent two years in this role for Michael Meacher MP when he was Shadow Secretary for Employment and Social Security.

In 1991, he married Molly Christine Meacher, who was formerly married to Michael Meacher.

Molly, styled Lady Layard between 2000 and 2006, was herself created a life peer in 2006 as Baroness Meacher.

On 22 February 2007, Meacher declared his intention to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party claiming he had the support of a large number of MPs.

Meacher had previously been the MP for Oldham West since 1970.

In June 2006, various articles appeared in the British media claiming Meacher would stand as a stalking horse against Tony Blair in order to initiate a leadership contest ; others suggested, especially after Brown came out in support of the Trident missile programme and nuclear energy, that Meacher would challenge Brown from the left.

On 14 May 2007, Meacher agreed to stand aside to allow John McDonnell to be the sole leadership candidate of the left.

Subsequent articles reported that Meacher had 21 declarations of support while McDonnell had 24.

Meacher is a member of the Fabian Society.

Michael Meacher, who visited Camelford in his post as environment minister, called the incident and its aftermath, " A most unbelievable scandal.

::*" Huddle " ( 1999 )-Madeleine Meacher from Manifold: Space returns to an Earth where the descendents of humans occupy the ecological niche of seals or penguins, a hundred thousand years after the events of the novel.

Gradually watercolor claimed his greater affection until today it has become his major, if not exclusive, technique.

Worse still, in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills the Bombus queen.

The University of Georgia has long claimed that it does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race or color.

This has been claimed to be an example of early animation.

The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

Collins, who has a history of alcohol abuse, claimed that the song was able to " pull her through " to recovery.

Sheldrake in his book The Rebirth of Nature: New Science and the Revival of Animism ( 1991 ) has claimed that Morphic fields " animate organisms at all levels of complexity, from galaxies to giraffes, and from ants to atoms ".

Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

Misogyny was by no means an Athenian invention, but it has been claimed that in regard to gender democracy generalised a harsher set of values derived, again, from the common people.

It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.

Danish tradition has preserved record of two governors of Schleswig, father and son, in their service, Frowinus ( Freawine ) and Wigo ( Wig ), from whom the royal family of Wessex claimed descent.

It has been claimed that in reading Arabic, the human brain processes Arabic script differently than alphabets, using mainly the left hemisphere, not both.

It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.

He adds that this last has been controversial in that it has been claimed that this aspect of the doctrine is not found before the time of Augustine of Hippo, while others allege that it is implicit in the Church of the second and third centuries.

Schaefer in particular has questioned how robust the claimed alignments in the Caracol are.

Celebrity biographer James Spada has claimed that similar allegations were made by actress Grace Kelly.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

Pete Rose has claimed that he applied for reinstatement over the years and received no such consideration.

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Prahlad Jani is an Indian 81 year old sadhu who has claimed to have lived without food and water for the last 70 years.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.