Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] By 2015, however, its strength was also growing at the national level. In that year’s General Election it secured 3.8 million votes (12.6 per cent of the vote) and replaced the Liberal Democrats as Britain’s third party. Despite the UKIP success, the Tories did win a majority in 2015. The 2017 General Election result, […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] were met, with the exception of annual Parliaments, the process took decades. It was not until 1914 that all males over 21 won 4 the right to vote in general elections. This process of painstaking gradual reform over the best part of seven decades, also visible in the recognition of trade union rights, ensured […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] would be that the “unknown subscriber” was the British tax-payer. We think Stewart-Smith was being funded in these ventures by MI5, probably using money from “the secret vote’.) The anti-Liberal pamphlet was distributed in seats where the Liberals were thought likely to do well. (21) Among the themes being promoted by MI5 against the […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] EU in practice are dismal. This has actually swayed voters in various parts of the EU to reject steps for ever greater unity and integration and to vote for a narrow nationalistic set of parties to represent their interests. Economic growth has been limp in comparison with other parts of the globe. More of […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] he got a fellow Catholic, Steve Webb (Lib Dem), as Pensions Minister during the Coalition. In 2013 Mr Webb boldly announced that the Good Lord himself would vote Lib Dem,9 although as it turned out practically no other bugger would. He was supported in this extravagant claim by the party president at the time, […]