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... quite literally unthinkable. It would crease the brow of even the average Daily Star reader. But it would make perfect sense if Coulson had already been thoroughly checked out by MI5 and so – not expecting it ever to come to light – no-one at Number 10 bothered to go through the redundant procedural rigmarole of vetting him again. Tory Party like it's 1992 A nd so the Miliband rocket proved to be a damp squib at the ballot booth and now the brothers (and sisters) are at each other's throats providing a neat distraction from all that boring post-election analysis that no-one cares about. Which is a pity, because on the face of it ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 31 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-holding-pattern.pdf
... new Morley and Outwood seat, but saw the 2010 majority fall to 1,101. UKIP built its local support strongly in the following years at Labour's expense and in May 2015 the Conservatives took the seat. It was the first time since before the Second World War that Morley – the core of the constituency – found itself with a Tory MP. Apparently Balls intends to spend part of his latest US sojourn doing some writing. During his first spell at Harvard he did some for Larry Summers, who became President Clinton's deregulating Treasury Secretary. Will Balls' return visit produce an academic analysis of how to switch three second homes and lose two safe seats while only applying a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 29 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-tittle-tattle.pdf
... – and went to the polls in May 1979, duly losing to Margaret Thatcher, and thus ending (although not all saw it like that at the time) an era of high-spending Keynesian interventionism. Sedgemore was one of Callaghan's casualties, losing his seat in Luton West by 246 votes (despite increasing his own support) to Tory Monday Club member John Carlisle. Financial salvation came via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a 'traditional Labour heartland' (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 24 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-brian-sedgemore.pdf
... and Kinnock looked unlikely to enter government at all. What matters more to me is the legacy of those who have exercised great influence. In Blair's case the verdict is not good, as we can see clearly after May 7. Many of Blair's young New Labour praetorian guard are no longer MPs; Scotland is now SNP territory; the Tories have a majority for the first time in nearly 20 years; inequality grows while bankers continue their bad old ways and we remain subservient to Washington and the largely bogus nostrums of the 'war on terror'. The secrecy surrounding Blair encountered by the authors has always been part of his story. His leadership campaign after Smith's death was managed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 06 Jun 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-blair-inc.pdf
... union argued that Thatcher 'had 70 pits on a secret hit list' and planned the effective destruction of the coal industry, something that was vehemently and categorically denied at the time. Thirty years later, 'we got to read the proof in black and white. The official documents vindicate the miners, their families and their supporters'. The Tories lied. If the truth had been known, the miners certainly would have won. Even so, as Skinner argues, they still came close to victory. He is scathing about the conduct of the police and the courts: 'Striking miners were stripped of civil rights, victims of summary justice'. Men were jailed 'on the uncorroborated ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 11 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-sailing-close.pdf
... UK had Kenneth Clarke and Peter Mandelson,1 0 two people for whom hubris is no stranger. Clarke congratulated himself for setting the UK on a growth path in the 1990s, and Mandelson was part of the New Labour cabal that invented the 'no more boom and bust' myth – a myth based on New Labour's commitment to stick with Tory spending plans for two years after the 1997 9 Disappointingly, Jeffers' book contains no references, but his reference here to an 'official report' quotes directly from the minutes of the meeting which are available at <www.bilderberg.org/1999mins. htm> 10 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-bilderberg-conspiracy.pdf
... politics today A mong the Wikileaks cables released so far was the US Embassy in London's account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: 'Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. King also raised concerns that Osborne's dual roles as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer but also as the Party's general election coordinator could create potential problems in the approach on economic issues......King also expressed concern about the Tory party's lack of depth. Cameron 5 <www.thejc.com/news/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 <http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2015/03/23/are-ngos- agents-of-subversion/> David Davis, the Conservative MP who lost to David Cameron in the contest for leader of the Tory Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, a free marketeer, a sometime member of a territorial SAS regiment and – this is what made me take notice – was a close friend of the late Tony Benn. Surprising? Yes, a bit: but both are ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 28 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... /911truth/fakebinladen2.jpg> 32 <http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/23/ukip-peer-lord- stevens-deputy-chair-northern-shell> We then had an Express 'exclusive' in which the Freedom Association – whose membership consists entirely of far-right Tories (such as the loveable Christopher Chope) and UKIP figures – attacked the BBC for 'plotting a Labour victory' in order to protect its licence fee arrangements.33 Naturally, this piece was long on rhetoric and short on details of how the Corporation (which towers above Mr Desmond's own Channel 5) was going to execute its nefarious ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 27 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-holding-pattern.pdf
... Liverpool being run by Conservative councils. The key political figures in this arrangement, and the first group of ministers from whom HRH took advice, were Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister, and a former Liberal), Sir Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary and, by virtue of his being MP for Leamington Spa, the leading member of the Tory West Midlands group of MPs), RA Butler (Chancellor of the Exchequer, a keen supporter of Chamberlain and appeasement in the '30s) and Gwilym Lloyd- George (from 1954 Home Secretary, National Liberal MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne North, previously Liberal MP for Pembrokeshire and son of David Lloyd-George).2 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 07 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-apocryphilia.pdf
