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... . He spoke well. He wrote well. Using his experience of working with the mandarins (and watching them slyly undermine Labour ministers), he helped draft the Alternative Economic Strategy (AES), adopted by Tony Benn as a campaigning tool in early 1975. Framed to cast Labour as firmly opposed to the decisions taken by the preceding Conservative government (and of course, by implication, critical of any accommodation with those hinted at 1 Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre-Thatcher, pre- gentrified area of London à la Up the Junction – in 1971 and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 24 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-brian-sedgemore.pdf
... Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister's office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to know which former prime minister Watson might be referring to, then issued a bland assurance that the matter would be looked into. The allegations to which Watson referred do not fall in any grey area. They involve coercive, forcible and sadistic sexual abuse of unambiguously underage children trafficked from children's homes around the UK. The accused are not social outsiders or ordinary families ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 148 - 08 Jun 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-child-abuse-network.pdf
... — real or imagined. The public perception of the war was not only shaped by the reporting during the war but by the approximately two million US Americans who went to Vietnam in the course of the war. Some 55,000 of them died there.48 Although this figure is modest in comparison to the number of Vietnamese dead, conservatively estimated at between 1.5 and 3.8 million (Korean deaths are also estimated at approximately 3 million), it was the perceived magnitude of US deaths that had the greatest, if not the only, decisive impact on American consciousness. What might be called 'Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome' triggers either bouts of self- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 06 Jun 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-flys-eye-view-vietnam.pdf
... : 'The referendum will, for the first time since we joined Europe after years of trying unsuccessfully to do so, put exit on the agenda. ' Most Britons were not electors in 1975 and so have never had a say on what was then the Common Market and is now the European Union. This perceived illegitimacy was acknowledged by the Conservatives, Greens and UKIP who all offered voters on May 7 the opportunity of a referendum. But not Labour, which hardly mentioned the EU in the campaign, leaving it to Blair to bang the Brussels drum. The former Prime Minister's other campaign bestowal was £1 ,000 to candidates in target seats. Some refused Blair's cash, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 06 Jun 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-blair-inc.pdf
... 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
... to Basel, and Back Again': <www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/2010/speech455. pdf> Page 26 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 the last economy-wide recession in 1994. ' 1 9 But nothing has actually been done. This is not surprising. How do the British state and the Conservative Party now decide to build an industrial strategy? Does the British state have people in its upper echelons who believe in the economically active state (except to save bankers)? Its senior figures are too young to remember how an industrial strategy was done before the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. Institutionally the Conservative Party hasn't believed in an industrial ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-economic-crisis.pdf
... leaving no settled institutional outlet for opposition or the construction of alternative policies and strategies. The most telling example of this was the Liberal performance last year: having gone into the General Election on a Keynesian politico- economic platform some way to the left of the other two major parties, they appeared just a week after polling day in a Conservative-dominated coalition committed to an economic strategy which could have come from the 1920s; and which committed them to policies they had been deriding only a few days, let alone weeks, earlier. In a way their experience was a more vivid, concentrated and dramatic version of what happened to Labour after Neil Kinnock embraced the liberal rather ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-political-class.pdf
... in Tara if SIS had an operational interest in its leader, William McGrath. And did SIS do 'infiltration'? And what would 'infiltration' of Kincora mean? Planting an agent in the home? The two men said to have visited the source for the Express story and told him of paedophile parties in the south of England, former Conservative MP Humphrey Berkeley and Robin Bryans, are dead. Robin Bryans used to send me long, barely intelligible letters and did not mention any of this, even though he knew of my connection to Colin Wallace, then at the centre of the Kincora story.2 Wallace met Humphrey Berkeley several times in 1987 when Channel Four News and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 22 - 28 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... in 1987 Reagan abolished the USA's 'fairness doctrine', which demanded political balance from news reporting bodies. The rest, as they say, is history, although one wonders if Mr Murdoch has a slyer sense of humour than we realised, since it was precisely the abolition of the 'fairness doctrine' that enabled the growth of the rabidly-conservative self-styled 'fair and balanced' Fox News. Murdoch's covert pas de deux with the Gipper raises interesting questions about news coverage of some of the 14 <https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/31/murdoch-scaife-and-cia- propaganda/> CIA's dealings in Central America, which were ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 27 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-holding-pattern.pdf
... a loss of confidence? One clue may be found by considering what has happened to the UK during the lengthy and continuing reign of Queen Elizabeth II and, in particular, comparing circumstances when it began with how matters rest today. Then..... Though people may have forgotten this, in 1952 Britain was governed by a Conservative-National Liberal coalition with 321 MPs. Of these 35 represented constituencies in Scotland and 69 in the north of England.1 Reflecting that this was an administration that had supporters in all parts of the UK, the geographical distribution of seats was replicated at local government level with cities like Cardiff, Leeds and Liverpool being run by Conservative ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 07 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-apocryphilia.pdf
