ベアタ・ブルックス

ベアタ・アン・ブルックスCBE（1930年1月21日[ 1 ] - 2015年8月17日[ 2 ] ）は、イギリスのソーシャルワーカー、企業秘書、保守党の政治家であった。彼女は北ウェールズ選出の欧州議会議員を10年間務め、下院議員選挙にも何度か立候補した。彼女は「ケルトの鉄の女」というニックネームで呼ばれることもあった。[ 3 ] [ 4 ]

教育

ブルックスはアバーゲリーのローザー・カレッジ[ 5 ]で教育を受け、その後ウェールズ大学バンガー校に進学した。彼女は国務省から奨学金を得てアメリカで政治学を学んだ。彼女は北ウェールズの会社で秘書兼取締役として働き始めた。

政治活動

彼女は幼い頃から政治に興味を持ち、保守党に入党し、全国保守・統一協会連合の執行部に選出されました。また、リル都市圏議会の保守党議員にも選出され、 1955年の総選挙では、わずか25歳で労働党が僅差で保持していたウィドネス選挙区に立候補しました。わずか1,449票差で敗れました。

その後、デンビーシャー州議会でソーシャルワーカーとして、また農業に従事しました。1961年には、労働党の安泰な議席であったウォリントン補欠選挙に保守党候補として立候補しました。 1964年の総選挙では、マンチェスター・エクスチェンジ選挙区で立候補しました。1963年には保守党政権からウェールズ病院委員会に任命され、11年間その職に就きました。アンソニー・アーノルドと結婚していましたが、1963年5月に離婚し、ミス・ベアタ・ブルックスという名で活動を続けたいと表明しました。

ローカル投稿

ブルックスは1973年からクルーイド地域保健局の職員として家庭医委員会に所属し、クルーイド州議会社会福祉委員会にも委員として参加しました。また、医療補助職評議会の委員も務め、北ウェールズにおいて障害者および精神障害者に関するボランティア部門の役職を複数経験しました。

欧州議会

At the 1979 European Parliament election, Brookes was elected as Conservative MEP for North Wales. She was a strong supporter of British membership of the European Communities and in 1981 at the Conservative Party conference moved a motion condemning the then Labour policy of leaving it; she argued that such a policy would leave Britain weak, friendless, isolated and bankrupt. She pointed to statistics about the economy and trade with Europe to claim that one job in three depended on Britain staying in.

Selection dispute

Brookes made a determined effort to be selected for the boundary changed constituency of Clwyd North West at the 1983 general election, over the claims of the sitting MPs for West Flintshire (Sir Anthony Meyer) and Denbigh (Geraint Morgan). The selection contest attracted national attention and Conservative Central Office decided to stay out of the dispute. On 6 March, Brookes won the selection vote in the Clwyd North West Conservative Executive, with Meyer describing the meeting as having been fixed and Morgan saying that speaking at the meeting was "like speaking to a nobbled jury".

Conservative Party chairman Cecil Parkinson then intervened, arising out of a newspaper report that Brookes claimed Central Office put her forward for the nomination (Meyer was a leading "wet" who was not popular with the Conservative leadership). When the Executive of Clwyd North West Conservative Association placed only Brookes' name before the general membership for adoption, Meyer won a High Court judgment that his name should also be offered. When the full membership met on 9 May 1983, Meyer was narrowly adopted.

Further political life

Brookes remained in the European Parliament. She protested in December 1983 over a BBC interview with the Welsh republican John Jenkins, who had been jailed for a bombing campaign at the time of the investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales. In the European Parliament she was a member of the Education and Agricultural Committees. She was defeated by the Labour Party candidate at the 1989 European Parliament elections.

She remained involved in Welsh Conservative politics and in 1993 was chair of the Welsh Conservative Party, and proclaimed her support for John Major at a time when he was under fire from within the party. She was appointed Chair of the Welsh Consumer Council, but her re-appointment in 1994 went ahead despite criticism from the National Consumer Council that despite her ability, a non-political choice would be more appropriate.[6] She was awarded the CBE in 1996. On 3 May 2013 she joined UKIP.[7]

Car boot sales

Although retired, she was still considered newsworthy in 2003 when she won permission to hold more "car boot sales" on her land at Rhuddlan on 14 Saturdays in a year. She had in 2000 obtained permission to hold sales on 28 Sundays in a year, and also offered the land for use for fireworks displays and the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[8]

References

  1. ^The year 1931 is recorded in "Who's Who" and "Debrett's People of Today". However, "The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1955" (page 165) gives her year of birth as 1929, and "The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1964" (page 127) gives 1930. Her obituary notice states she was 85 at her death.
  2. ^"BROOKES BEATA : Obituary". Daily Post. 27 August 2015.
  3. ^Maev Kennedy, "Diary", The Guardian, 11 May 1993.
  4. ^"Beata Brookes: Former Conservative Euro MP dies at 84". BBC News. 18 August 2015.
  5. ^'Brookes, Beata Ann' in Who's Who 2012 (London, A. & C. Black)
  6. ^Chris Blackhurst, "Memo fuels concern at Tory link to public life", The Independent, 2 May 1994.
  7. ^"Vote 2013: Ex-Conservative MEP Beata Brookes joins UKIP". BBC News. 3 May 2013.
  8. ^Derek Bellis, "Ex-Euro MP wins boot sale battle: Council must pay thousands in appeal costs", Daily Post, 27 November 2003.

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