[…] anti-communist propaganda operations. (2) Where, in all this, we should now place Mayhew’s October ’47 proposal to Bevin is not clear. Was it a political ‘cover s tory’, designed to show the initiative coming from within the Labour Government and not from the Foreign Office? In Bevin’s presentation of the case to the Cabinet […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] There is a considerable overlap of personal and funding with the TUCETU. The fingerprints of British and American spooks are everywhere to be found.(1) The Dulverton Trust: Tory money for the union right With the return of a Labour government, keeping the UK labour movement on side is back on the establishment agenda of […]
[…] back as World War 1, show the kind of continuity of belief, personnel and action visible elsewhere on the Right; and, here as elsewhere in the his tory of the British Right, there is little information readily available. Other than the Tory Party itself, the only significant organisation which has survived on the Right […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster and 1979 is their Year Zero. There is a curious symmetry here: at the end of the […]
[…] 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 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 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 into the […]
