[…] Party but not any of the European left of centre parties. In January 1993 the British Embassy in Washington DC organised a visit for Blair and Brown. During this they met the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, who advised them that what the UK really needed was to have control […]
[…] of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Cromer wanted – guess what? – cuts in public expenditure and higher interest rates. Gordon Brown would have said, ‘It’s already in our program, Lord Cromer,’ but Wilson threatened to call a general election on the theme of the government or the […]
[…] trace their ancestry. The Blairites In the Guardian Martin Kettle wrote in February this year,’the New Labour project has always been defined in an Anglo-American context.’ Gordon Brown used to tell interviewers that he spent his holidays in the library at Harvard University. In 1986 Tony Blair went on one of those US-sponsored trips […]
[…] Labour took office, had been dominated by the fear of inflation getting out of control as it did between 1972 and 1976. How many times did Gordon Brown boast of stability (meaning price stability, of course) during his time as chancellor? Twenty five years after the events of the mid 1970s Brown still felt […]
[…] the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall to the party was MacShanes fellow LFI policy council member Nick Brown, the still baby-faced former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, […]
[…] chose were already very pro-American; and contact went further than mere background briefings. One of Cooper’s closest contacts in the Party was the Shadow Defence Minister George Brown, whose work ‘brought in touch with various members of the CIA.’ (8) ‘Our relationship’, confides Cooper, ‘was comprised of mutual affection, respect and confidence.’ (9) Brown […]
[…] paid to H. Parker by the owner of a local pub for planning consent.’ 23 May Owen Oyston, Peter Martin, Melanie Hardy, Lindsey Butler, Susan Burrows, Alison Brown, Dianne Boroviak flew to Gibraltar for a week. 10 June Murrin released a 22-page report entitled ‘Preston Dock Redevelopment, Red Rose Radio and Cable Television’ libelling […]
[…] its parliamentary party marginalised (along with parliament itself) and the executive is staffed by unelected businessmen and security specialists. King called this a ‘businessman’s government’ and Gordon Brown calls it ‘a government of all the talents’. King’s significance in history is that he predicted the kind of government that a declining British capitalism would […]
[…] of a few individuals, 6 or 7 of whom were members of the TUC General Council.’ (21) These included the Treasurer of Freedom and Democracy Trust, John Brown, and the chief organiser, Tom O’Brien. Brown was ex-General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, while O’Brien was General Secretary of NATKE (Theatrical and […]
[…] The Dark Side of Camelot. The most striking single essay in the book isn’t an essay at all, it is extracts from two speeches by Judge Joe Brown, one of the judges involved in the civil proceedings successfully brought by William Pepper against Lloyd Jowers and unnamed co-conspirators for the unlawful death of Martin […]
