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  • noun politics a member of the Social Credit Party

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Examples

  • Such things resonate with the working class people who can easily shift their votes from Liberal/Socred to the NDP when they perceive the ivory tower is out of touch with the unwashed huddled masses.

    2008 August 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Such things resonate with the working class people who can easily shift their votes from Liberal/Socred to the NDP when they perceive the ivory tower is out of touch with the unwashed huddled masses.

    For Once I’m Glad To See An NDP Surge « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Reemember the alternatives could be a lot worse, remember Clark in 79, all he needed to do was appease the 6 Socred member from the Conservative Beauce area in Quebec, to get his budget passed.

    Stephen Harper’s NDP Party Releases Budget Tomorrow « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Some bad machinations later and dumb moves left what could've been a situation similar to BC the Liberals replacing the old Socred party as the main opposition to the NDP into what it is today - a new Sask party taking all the anti-NDP vote and leaving the Libs as almost a fringe party.

    Oh Those Pesky Whacky Saskatchewan Liberals! 2008

  • In the days of Social Credit we actually had Socred appointed Agricultural and Commissions that stood up for the ALR and opposed government plans to allow farmland to be developed.

    11 « December « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • In the days of Social Credit we actually had Socred appointed Agricultural and Commissions that stood up for the ALR and opposed government plans to allow farmland to be developed.

    A Bit of History of the ALC Approval of the SFPR « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • In South Delta, one once could predict Socred elections when the Highways Dept. repaved Hwy 17 from 52nd to the Ferry terminal – sort of “your tax money at work, vote for us!”

    Surrey Mayor Watts queries bridge twinning assumptions « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • The last minorty government (Joe Clark, Conservative Party 78-79) would have been saved by a vote from the 6 sitting Socred MPs who were technically their 'coalition partners' (they had been decimated themselves in the 1978 election).

    the vote 2005

  • Bob Clark, Social Credit MLA for Olds-Didsbury (1960-81), Socred Leader (1977-81), and Alberta's "Ethics Commissioner" (1992-2003), was appointed to the Natural Resource Conservation Board.

    more tory patronage... daveberta 2005

  • Bob Clark, Social Credit MLA for Olds-Didsbury (1960-81), Socred Leader (1977-81), and Alberta's "Ethics Commissioner" (1992-2003), was appointed to the Natural Resource Conservation Board.

    Archive 2005-10-01 daveberta 2005

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