The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New Labour’s Atlanticist connections.
Parish Notices
Thanks for material since the last Lobster to Frank Krstulja, Robin Whittaker (clipper-in-chief), Ronnie Scott, Murray Horton, Kevin McClure, John Morgan, Dave Clark, Martin Collins and John Booth.
Mea culpa
I was bought up in Edinburgh and remember the Scottish National Party speakers talking at the Mound — Edinburgh’s version of Hyde Park Corner — on Sunday evenings in the sixties. So imagine my embarrassment at referring to the SNP as the Scottish Nationalistist Party in Lobster 33! Incidentally, the other people I remember speaking a lot at the Mound were Protestant Action (defunct, far as I know) and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (still alive, now just called the Socialist Party).
Credit where credit is due
Partly paid for by Tom Easton, over 300 copies of Lobster 33 were sent to the media, politicians and others. With the free copies went a press release at the bottom of which I pointed out that since Lobster had no money, if the information contained therein was of interest, I’d be glad to receive a cheque for the cover price. I received three cheques: take a bow Bruce Kent, Tony Benn and Alan Plater.
Same old same old
With material running from the IMF 1976 incident through to (a snippet on) disinformation in the British UFO world, here’s another pretty normal issue of Lobster. If there are those who don’t find the economic politics of the 1970s of interest, I can only say now would be a good time to start paying attention. The nauseating nonsense now being perpetrated in the name of the Labour Party stands upon a completely false interpretation of the events of the 1970s. Nothing could be more important than that we understand better our recent history.
There are some hundreds of people in the USA and here who claim that personnel from the American or British military are broadcasting into their heads. ‘Voices in the head’ is one of the classic symptoms of schizophrenia, of course. But in his essay in this issue Armen Victorian presents irrefutable evidence that the technology with which to accomplish ‘voices in the head’ is being developed. This doesn’t mean we have to believe all those who make such claims; but it does mean they can’t be dismissed. On past performance, having developed such weapons the British and American military would just go ahead and try them out on involuntary subjects, which is what seems to be happening.
This issue contains a very long chronology on the Owen Oyston case, one of the most important as well as one of the most under-reported examples of parapolitics in this country’s post-war history.
As usual, the author-less pieces are by me.
Robin Ramsay
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