[…] increase the political strike power of the Leader’s Office and to invest in the sort of advanced marketing techniques that Saatchi & Saatchi had deployed for the Tory Party. Of course, this did not happen. New Labour’s membership sunk to about 200,000 members, many of them disenchanted, while the Opposition Tories are drifting towards […]
[…] in which you, or a co-conspirator, are named as the proxy. You now control someone else’s vote. In 1998, two councillors decided to prevent a Labour vic tory in the elections of Hackney Council, North London. So enthusiastic were their efforts that the prosecutor at their subsequent trial described their efforts as ‘the largest […]
[…] legal action against the BBC. As it turned out, the significant infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the fascist/authoritarian right, symbolised by the late George Kennedy Young, but from the other direction entirely, the libertarians, mainly those associated with the Libertarian […]
[…] 38, has written a very interesting study of Margaret Thatcher’s first visit to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the London embassy who liaised with the Tory Party, and was sent on a six week freebie […]
[…] 1995, £20 Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative his tory. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake’s standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The Nation provides an upstairs and downstairs view […]
[PDF file]: The Nasty Party Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain Phil Burton-Cartledge London: Verso, 2021 Scott Newton The British Conservative Party is one of the most successful election winning machines in the world. It has been in power, either on its own or as part of a coalition, for 71 […]
[…] the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see The Tory Right Between the Wars in Lobster 15) the vast majority of those companies are from the domestic manufacturing sector of the British economy. The report (The […]
[…] a digest of research into the British right-wing which Hughes, like a few others on the British Left began in the mid 1980s; and a rather perfunc tory account of the covert operations against the Wilson government and the rise of Thatcherism. The Right is another country Left pioneers like Mike Hughes who wandered […]
[…] the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within it there is a short his tory of British League of Empire Loyalists, a rather important group on the British post-war right, about which there is almost no current published material. Here, extracted […]
[…] a campaign for re-armament. Speakers included the former Bradford Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1933, Norman Angell, and Henry Wickham Steed, a veteran diehard Tory, former editor of The Times and agent of the Czechoslovak government. (3) A month later, after a rousing Commons speech on the subject of Germany on […]
