Willie Hamilton

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William Winter Hamilton, known as Willie Hamilton, (26 June 1917 – 26 January 2000) was a Scottish anti-monarchist Labour Member of Parliament in Fife.

Hamilton was a schoolteacher who joined the Labour Party as a teenager in 1936. He served as a captain in the Middle East during World War II.

Hamilton contested West Fife at the 1945 general election but lost to Communist Willie Gallacher. In 1950, he successfully overturned that result, winnng by over 13,000 votes. In 1974, he became MP for Fife Central after boundary changes. In 1987, Hamilton was replaced as Labour candidate in Fife Central by Henry McLeish and stood in South Hams, where he came third, polling just 8% of the vote. Standing in South Hams entitled Hamilton to an extra payout for MPs who leave the House of Commons due to defeat at an election, rather than through retirement.

He sponsored the Equal Pay For Equal Work Bill in the 1970s, but is best remembered as for his stridently anti-Royalist views. He branded The Queen "a clockwork doll", Princess Margaret "a floozy", and Prince Charles "a twerp".

Hamilton died in 2000 at the age of 82.

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• BBC reports his death

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Willie Gallacher	Member of Parliament for West Fife 1950–February 1974	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Central Fife February 1974–1987	Succeeded by Henry McLeish