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... 'up to 30' MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the attempts to unseat Wilson. As for Gladio being behind the Wilson plots, of that there is no evidence at all. But apparently he doesn't need evidence: mere assertion will suffice. For example he says of Mrs Thatcher's defeat of Edward Heath for the leadership of the Tory Party in 1975: 'Behind the scenes, it was Gladio's triumph. Heath was destroyed by the libels revolving around his sexuality and his own loftiness, rooted in insecurity, which rendered him easy prey to ruthless secret service gossip mongers. ' (p . 248) Which is nonsense. The stories about Heath's sexuality had no coverage and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-gladio.pdf
... Sachs partner and chief operating officer for Europe, Sajid Javid, a former global head of credit trading at Deutsche Bank, and Greg Clark, a former consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed 2 <http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/official-goldman-sachs- role-in-eurozone-debt-fraud-to-be-kept-secret/> ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 14 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... for the leadership of the Conservative Party. The office has provided him with endless opportunities for self- advertisement from appearing in East Enders to hijacking the Olympics. Is he unstoppable? In an obvious attempt to embarrass the Government, he recently called for the top rate of tax to be cut to 40%, massaging the fantasies of the Tory right with the possibility that his popularity is such that he, unlike Osborne, might actually be able to get away with such a massive handout to the rich during a recession. Many hardline right-wing Tories cannot understand why the Tea Party phenomenon has never taken off in Britain and see Johnson as a potential one-man Tea ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-borisconi.pdf
... arrangements in years past was ensuring that whatever government emerged could survive from vote to vote in the House of Commons – not that it had to have an absolute majority at all times, and certainly 16 Adonis's 'thesis [is] that the Lib Dems should have reached an agreement with Labour, having more in common with them than with the Tories, but never took the negotiations seriously. All they did, he suspects, is keep Labour talking to strengthen their hand in the only negotiations they took seriously, with the Conservatives. ' <www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-battle- to-write-the- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 26 Jul 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-running-britain.pdf
... police say the murder case cost Chris More senior £350,000. His technical ability is legendary. A former World in Action reporter at Granada Television remembered More as 'The Ultimate Hacker' and stated that during the legal battle between Jonathan Aitken MP and The Guardian, Chris More played to his prospective clients recordings of telephone conversations between the Tory defence procurement minister and his daughter Victoria. Aitken's case against The Guardian and Granada TV collapsed after the production of evidence that Aitken's wife had not paid for him to stay at the Paris Ritz. Aitken was jailed for perjury in 1999. Chris More had worked on investigations for News International for over 20 years, retained by their solicitors ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-mark-lewis.pdf
... the election of 1997 the psychological process of denial had kicked in. Faced with something they didn't want to know – the reality of NuLab – the members of my Labour Party branch told themselves it wasn't true. The essential shift, which I heard over and over again in Labour Party circles was this: yes, they sound terribly like Tories but they don't mean it. It's a pretence to get elected. After 1997 all they could see was: he's got us elected. Which, indeed, was all that most MPs saw: Tony is a winner. There's an phrase that came from the American Quakers in the 1950s, that the role of people like me is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-new-labour.pdf
... landed aristocracy. Instead, he advocates 'the politics of conscience'. Clearly he is mistaken and while we cannot go into the whys and wherefores here, it is interesting to see where his politics of conscience lead him. The book has a Postscript where he actually argues that some good might come from the LibDems being in coalition with the Tories. Still a 'poor innocent fool' I'm afraid, Bob! Quite how someone of Marshall-Andrews' experience could be taken in by Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and the rest of them is anyone's guess. What does he think now, one wonders? Much less interesting is Mark Seddon's Standing for Something. This is a bit ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-innocent-fools.pdf
... 1983, chose as his economic advisor the Cambridge economist John Eatwell. In 1982 Eatwell had written and fronted a BBC TV series, 1 In most other European countries what we might call the Heathite Conservatives and the centre-right of the Labour Party would have long since formed a third party, a social democratic party, and consigned the Tory free marketeers and the Labour Party's socialists to the fringes. It is a measure of the power of tribe and class in this society that this had not happened before Roy Jenkins was finally persuaded to try in 1981 with the SDP. Jenkins was the key figure in the 'gang of four' in my view; and people around him ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-two-goulds.pdf
... of the phrase 'the change of government': 'The thing is there were some senior people in the forces at the time who were very right-wing and they thought that Thatcher coming in gave them carte blanche to get up to all sorts of things. We heard whispers that some of these people were trying to destabilise Labour before the Tories got back in. ' We've been here before. Back in the late 1970s, the people gathered round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals like Duncan Campbell and Tony Bunyan, had worked out for themselves that Mrs Thatcher was the candidate of the security state. That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... pp. 72-89). Something which the activities of Stratfor seem precisely to replicate is the manner in which the fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi al-Qaida connections were 'sexed-up' in preparation for the illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain's Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate in a US-led attack on Iran with ships, cruise missiles and access to British military bases such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.1 0 The UK government has also been to the fore in sanctions, for example against the Iranian Central ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 07 Apr 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-armed-dangerous.pdf
