All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] across a decade and a half; and the parallel reversal of fortune for those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] instance, that even if Brown had been re-elected in 2010 he would have pursued a programme of budget cuts not dissimilar to those adopted by Cameron and Clegg, but would have spread them out over a 49 Winter 2010 longer period of time. In this scenario what does the Labour Party stand for?24 Politics […]

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[…] state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]

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[…] state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]

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[…] state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).29 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] poor! Under David Cameron, Brown’s ‘socialism’ was all rolled back. Bower is insistent that the Austerity regime initiated under Cameron has also been seriously misunderstood (poor Nick Clegg does not get so much as a mention). Under Austerity, ‘the beneficiaries . . . were the poor’ with George Osborne’s cuts targeting ‘the work-shy’. Indeed, […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it is really that important and there will always be sufficient ‘sensible’ people around to maintain the status quo). Where Blair and Brown led, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Miliband brothers followed. The exit of Ed Miliband as Labour leader in 2015 after a failure to win a general election was particularly egregious, […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 9 In his previous post Pickles closed down the anti-corruption unit along with the rest of the Audit Commission. Pickles’s former Liberal Democrat Coalition government partner Nick Clegg has lost not only most of his LibDem MPs but also his former head of communications. According to the Jewish Chronicle, James Sorene ‘will lead BICOM […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lobby groups, policy advisors and think tanks that barely existed in the ‘50s, it is now common for individuals to have had no career outside politics (witness Clegg and Miliband) before entering the Palace of Westminster. Economic policy under Churchill and Eden might have been (as it still is across much of the EU) […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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. […]

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