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... how she stoked rightwing rebellion in war against "wets" ', notes that Thatcher's private secretary, Ian Gow MP, met with Labour MP Neville Sandelson, six months before Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow's report includes this paragraph: 'Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the re-election of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Page 38 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 Party, which he considers to be an essential pre- condition for a real purge of the Labour Left. ' 1 Sandelson was then one of the Labour MPs, about to defect to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 69 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... (GLC). There is a certain rough justice in this, in that it is this period which continues to define him for many people and provides a great deal of the explanations for his subsequent conduct. Livingstone comes from a respectable working-class Tory family. Until he was 28 he lived at home with his parents who were Conservative Party members and activists. This is not investigated by Hosken, but was previously mentioned by Carvel. Their activism included helping at elections – always a key indicator of serious political commitment. They lived in a council flat for a few years in the early 1950s but bought their own house as soon as possible. It would have been ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 69 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-11.htm
... either Shelter or Release, there were still plenty of people willing to participate.3 The problems started when you tried to work with rock stars. Great hopes were pinned on the burgeoning punk scene. Alas, Rhoda Dakar (later lead singer in The Bodysnatchers) recalls 'Joe Strummer talked in slogans'; Paul Weller proclaimed he would vote Conservative at the next election;4 Malcolm McLaren was too obviously a hustler; Ian Dury and John Lydon were, in different ways, unpredictable. This left Tom Robinson (who had already written 'Glad to be Gay' for the Campaign for Homosexual Equality), a few reggae acts and Carol Grimes, who had no record deal in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 68 - 02 May 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-back-to-the-future.pdf
... must be opposed. The political ideas of the right are expressions not of beliefs about the world but of material interests: and if they profess otherwise they are trying to con people (and possibly themselves). The right has interests not ideas. Many on the right are really much further right than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist. (The fascist menace.) In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left. (The communist menace.)(3 ) As well as being a reflexive response, 'contamination' or anathematization is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-01.htm
... open up the next stage of the talks, dealing with trade. The upshot is that no agreement is in prospect, with (at the time of writing) just 16 months left before the UK is due to leave the EU. Why has the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) became an objective of large-scale business and finance in the UK during the late 1950s and early 1960s, as profits to be made from trade with ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 02 Dec 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster74/lob74-brexit.pdf
... was divorced by his wife, model Sandra Paul, in 1965 as a result of his affair with Princess Margaret. He was found dead in 1968, the death being ruled as suicide due to clinical depression. Sandra Paul later married David Wynne-Morgan, who ran Annabel's night club, and is today married to Michael Howard MP, Conservative Party leader 2003-2005. Page 10 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Harold MacMillan to take the UK into the Common Market. Smedley, who was Vice President of the Liberal Party at this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be 'the last bastion of freedom if the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-004.pdf
... of most Westminster governments since 1970); * the corrosive consequences of an unregulated media; * the increasingly poor educational standards prevalent in the UK; * the casual dismissal and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/Tory then Liberal/Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially 'fair' but as long as the voting affiliations of the masses remained determined by this 'us and them' syndrome, and they opted for one of two monolithic parties, a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 67 - 02 Jan 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-brexit-accident.pdf
... easy to let the real weight of MI5's role slip by. MI5 is the very heart of it, the palace guard - literally and metaphorically. Harold Wilson's charges against the agency in 1976 were very serious business indeed. In simpler times, back in the 1930s, the relationship between the British state's intelligence agencies and their masters in the Conservative Party was clearer. Joseph Ball, one of the major eminences grises of this country's recent history, managed to combine the roles of head of the Government's Intelligence Department and head of the Conservative Party's Research Department - then also essentially an intelligence operation. (161) And if the British population (and the left) of the time ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 64 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-11.htm
... , Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The widespread shock which greeted his assassination was probably nowhere more clearly felt than by Mrs Thatcher, then leader of the Conservative opposition. Neave had masterminded Thatcher's rise to power in the Conservative Party, organising her election as party leader. It was probably him who directed the 'dirty tricks' campaign against Heath which proved so effective. From 1975 until his death Neave headed Thatcher's private office. It was expected that he would be an important influence on her when ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 64 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-05.htm
... . That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief of the 'paranoid left' (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region; and with that hat on he is the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 61 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
