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Iain Picton was born on 31 August, 1951, is an Iain Sutherland Picton was political activist in the Conservative Party. Discover Iain Picton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?

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1951

Iain Sutherland Picton (31 August 1951 – 9 August 1991) was a political activist in the Conservative Party, representing the One Nation tradition Toryism, and a television producer.

1965

Picton joined the Young Conservatives in 1965 and became Secretary and then Chairman of Knebworth Young Conservatives Hertfordshire.

1970

Picton was active in the Liverpool University Branch of the Federation of Conservative Students between 1970 and 1975.

Liverpool University FCS was dominated by the moderate faction in the Conservative Party and a major player in the Students' Union.

He became the sabbatical President of Liverpool Students Union and a delegate to the National Union of Students.

Merrick was a former Conservative Councillor from Bradford who had been expelled by the Conservatives in 1970 and gone on to found the British Campaign to Stop Immigration.

1974

He rose to become a National Vice-Chairman of FCS (1974–75) on the moderate ticket and was elected to the Finance Committee of the NUS, the first Tory in two decades.

After the Conservative defeat in the 1974 General Elections, the Conservative Party created a number of staff positions charged with building relations with elements of the community the Party considered vital to its electoral success, such as voluntary groups and ethnic minorities.

1975

Picton was recruited to head up the Youth & Community position in the North West Region of England, working under the Area Agent, David Smith from 1975 to 1979.

1978

Picton became Chairman of the North West Area Young Conservatives in 1978 and served two terms as National Vice-Chairman of the Young Conservatives, first under Bob Hughes and then Eric Pickles, with responsibility for Campaigning and International work on the British Youth Council.

1979

In the 1979 General Election Picton stood as the Conservative Candidate in Rochdale, a Liberal – Labour marginal, held by Cyril Smith.

The election witnessed clashes between Young Conservatives and the supporters of the National Front Candidate, Jim Merrick.

1981

In 1981 he was elected National Chairman of the Young Conservatives on the moderate slate.

Right-wing infiltration

Picton grew concerned with signs of organised extreme right wing infiltration and collaboration with them by sympathisers in the Conservative Party.

The Daily Telegraph reported: 'The National Chairman of the Young Conservatives, Mr Iain Picton is convinced that there is a problem and that action has to be taken to tackle it.' Picton stated: If I ever find any evidence of National Front infiltration, I shall move everything to make sure these people are thrown out.'

The Daily Telegraph listed examples of National Front links in Coventry, West London, Petts Wood, South Shields, Preston and the Solent area of Hampshire.

The Telegraph referred to 'particular worries' about some Federation of Conservative Students branches which 'sent a delegation containing students with skinhead haircuts, braces and union-jack badges to the federation's conference.'

Picton believed that unless the issue was confronted, the Young Conservative movement 'could suffer serious political and structural damage.' Picton attacked the National Front, calling them racists.

'They are dangerous, they are pro-racist where we are anti, and they are anti-democratic where we are pro'.

Picton's lieutenant, National vice-chairman, Phil Pedley stated: 'So far we have only discovered a handful of people but they appear to be working to some sort of a strategy.'

Countering CND

Under Picton's Chairmanship the National Young Conservatives sought to counter the influence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament attempts to influence Young Conservative Branches and established Youth for Multilateral Disarmament under Phil Pedley.

Youth Unemployment

The Young Conservatives took a leading role in calling for the Government to do more for young unemployed and charged another National vice-chairman, Peter 'Chalkie' White with the responsibility of developing the YC's stance, resulting in a policy paper "Britain's Youth – What Future?"

Picton stepped up his criticisms of the Conservative Government's attitude after the 1981 Toxteth riots in Picton's adopted city of Liverpool.

Picton was regarded with disdain by many on the right of the Party including Thatcher's PPS, Ian Gow, who, prior to a meeting between Picton and the Prime Minister wrote: "can the unspeakable Iain Picton come quarter of an hour early?...I gave him a drink at the House last night. He is bearded and unemployed".

Get on your bike

At the 1981 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, it was Picton's contribution to the debate on Unemployment, that provoked Norman Tebbit's famous response.

In the aftermath of the 1981 riots in Handsworth and Brixton, Tebbit responded to Picton's suggestion that rioting was the natural reaction to unemployment by telling the Conference I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father.

He didn't riot.

He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it.' This response was the origin of the slogan "On yer bike!".

Unemployment and compassionate Conservatism remained a theme after Picton's chairmanship of the Young Conservatives and he returned to it when elected chairman of the Tory Reform Group.

1985

In May 1985, the Tory Reform Group criticised the Government's handling of unemployment and Picton's press release on the issue was referred to in Prime Minister's Questions.

At the 1985 Conservative Party Conference he clashed again with Norman Tebbit, who dismissed activists' concerns as being worries about presentational issues.

Picton said: "When Conservatives say presentation, they often mean policy. People are really worried.' He was backed by Northern Ireland Secretary Jim Prior: "I sometimes think the modern Conservative party lacks understanding and that compassion has become a dirty word".

Picton returned to the theme of decaying inner cities and the risk of rioting in 1985 with a Tory Reform Group press-release calling for a rejuvenation of city centres which were "embarrassingly tatty, unkempt and in part positively slum-like."

and suggested it might take another riot to get the Government to act.

The cover of the Tory Reform Group's magazine 'Reformer' reproduced newspaper cuttings of the Birmingham Handsworth riots with the headline: 'The Nation in Peril?'

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