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... began to raid and threaten companies associated with the project. However not all the Thatcher government secrets disappeared into the black hole of the 'British justice system.’ Copies of a number of contracts were taken in evidence by the Metropolitan Police as the investigation unfolded. These still exist and point directly to the direct complicity of the CIA, Whitehall and the Conservative government in a murky tale of illegality and corruption at the heart of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations. Many got rich out of the inside knowledge and huge profits that flowed from this major breach of UN resolutions and British law. The finance director of Allivane alone admitted to receiving £2 million in commissions, and both Levene and Cuckney ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-maggies-secret.pdf
... time, condemning the invasion as incompetent, ill-thought out etc. Good to read, chaps, but I remember that nobody said anything when it might have mattered. And nobody resigned. Careers apparently come before the national interest – and the interests of the armed forces. Also reflecting on Iraq ten years on was erstwhile MI6 officer and now Conservative MP Rory Stewart, who took part in the invasion/occupation. Stewart concluded: 'The question for Britain is what aspect of our culture, our government, and our national psychology, allowed us to get mired in such catastrophe? Everyone – including Cumbrians – should try to understand what happened. We need to reform the army, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... destroy the chances of Barbara Castle (who is promoting the proposals) succeeding Harold Wilson in any future leadership contest within the Labour Party. It soon becomes clear that Callaghan and the trade unions have mobilised a majority against Castle and Wilson. Although considering In Place of Strife to be much less comprehensive an approach than would be taken by a Conservative government, Edward Heath decides against a purely party political opposition to the scheme. An admirer of the West German industrial relations system,5 of which In Place of Strife was a pale imitation, he offers Wilson his support in a free vote in the Commons. In Place of Strife is duly voted through and becomes law. Although ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 02 May 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-going-south.pdf
... from the pre-war system.... but there now existed formal, powerful, employers' institutions, a fully fledged Ministry of Labour, and a TUC [Trades Union Congress] increasingly accustomed to dealing in the political arena, wedded to a major political party which, almost alone in Europe, encompassed the majority of the non- Conservative working class. At the same time, the government's apparatus for manipulating public opinion had grown inordinately, enabling it – on its own estimate – to confront the spectre of Bolshevism and survive. Lloyd George himself, searching always for a middle way in politics, had shifted away from Liberal radicalism towards a corporatism best described as the creation ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 84 - 05 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf
... Gabby Bertin – currently on maternity leave – used to work closely with Mr Werritty and Dr Fox as the researcher and sole employee of Atlantic Bridge. The controversial Atlanticist defence 'think tank' was shut down after the Charity Commissioners said in 2010 that its primary objective appeared to be 'promoting a political policy [that] is closely associated with the Conservative party'. Ms Bertin, a former banker, had her £25,000 salary at Atlantic Bridge paid by Pfizer, the giant US pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1997 by North Somerset MP Dr Fox with Margaret Thatcher as its president, Atlantic Bridge had current Cabinet ministers Michael Gove, George Osborne, William Hague and Chris Grayling ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 28 Jan 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-tittle-tattle.pdf
... out lefty propaganda. Here's Melanie Phillips: 'With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti- western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But how could it not do so? These are the official ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-148.pdf
... Making of Economic Policy' in Hugh Thomas (ed.) Crisis in the Civil Service (London: Anthony Blond, 1968). 64 Winter 2010 was, to some extent, kept under control. Britain's decline from 10th in the OECD 'league tables' of economic performance to its present 19th began in 1980, the year that the Conservative Government scrapped the remaining controls on overseas investment of British-generated wealth.4 Although this issue no longer makes it onto the main agendum of this society, the conflict between the interests of the domestic economy and the overseas lobby is one of the major themes in British economic politics in the 20th century. From the rise of Tariff Reform League before the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 94 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti-Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most gifted leader, to get back into government after a severe defeat (such as suffered by Labour in 1983 or the Conservatives in 1997) under the current first-past-the-post system. In this context, and accepting that her book is not a political history of the period, it would have been of some value for her to have sketched out over a page or two the various events that triggered the launch of the SDP in 1981: particularly the machinations of James ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... , 'Rory Stewart concedes career "gives appearance" that he worked for MI6', Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010. 108 Winter 2010 been an MI6 officer.’ Said claims were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: 'One person I would not vote for is the crusading neo- Conservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer and not a member of the FCO. Three years ago I received a message from the FCO asking me not to mention this as, at that time, Stewart was still very active for MI6 in Afghanistan and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-105.pdf
... name of the Queen. It should be dispensed in the name of the people. 28: The people should directly elect the House of Lords. 31: The European Council of Ministers should meet in public. 32: The European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons should meet in public. 39: Both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party should reform themselves to become democratic bodies answerable to their membership so that members can change the Constitution of their party on the basis of One Member One Vote. 46: Party Political Broadcasts (PPBs) should be abolished. 59: Within one month of the monarch's death a ballot should be held of all the people to endorse ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 44 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-193.pdf
