Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] the National Party of ex-Tories like Kingsley-Read and genuine Strasserites. In March the NF was frozen out of the 1975 National Referendum Campaign (NRC) for a ‘no’ vote in the referendum on membership of the EEC. While the far left were also rejected, it was a palpable sign of the NF’s distance from the […]

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The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] this. Elected to Lambeth Council in 1974, he failed to gain election to the GLC in 1981 (Stephen Haseler of the Social Democratic Alliance split the anti-Conservative vote in the seat he was contesting) but became Leader of Lambeth Council in 1982, following elections that produced a ‘hung’ council. After refusing to set a […]

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Blairusconi: populism and elite rule

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] convergence has, in line with the other societal shifts that have happened on democratic culture. Explaining the problem with ‘convergence’, the late Paul Foot wrote in The Vote, How it was Won and How it was Undermined: ‘Labour won the election by another massive majority. But their vote (10.7 million) was dramatically lower not […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code’

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] that Government information would be ‘objective, explanatory and is in line with and supports Government policy’. () Government policy is, of course, in favour of a ‘yes’ vote so, taken with the ‘serious money’ statement, we see here a probable predisposition towards government funding of support for a ‘yes’ vote which is to be […]

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Kiss me on the apocalypse!

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] and the Bruges Group from 1989 onwards, and particularly from 1993-1997. The loss of morale amongst many Conservative supporters and the subsequent failure of many Tories to vote at all is difficult to measure; but it seems reasonable to assume that the division on Europe that was openly displayed and exploited by Goldsmith cost […]

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Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Alliance) and in Westminster. The biggest upset came in Hammersmith and Fulham where the Save London Alliance put up 18 candidates. Their intervention resulted in a split vote in Addison ward, where Labour lost 2 seats to the Conservatives. Because of this the council became hung with the balance of power held by 2 […]

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RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] M. Woods and James Lacey, Saddam and terrorism: emerging insights from captured Iraqi documents. Volume I: Redacted (Alexandria, Virginia: Institute for Defense Analyses, 2007) . Safeguarding the vote: applying best practices to mitigate perceived threats for voting systems, (Houston: Election Technology Council, 2008). Also available are full text versions of earlier books in the […]

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The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] United Kingdom. To some of us, this was an accident waiting to happen. In a country with many millions of voters who are allowed to exercise that vote only once every four or five years, relatively small numbers of people belong to those two or three political parties whose struggles eventually decide which person […]

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Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] HIS VICTORY SHALL COME OURS!’ (p. 2) See Tyndall’s later comments in ‘The Music of Revolution and Counter-revolution’ in Spearhead 231, May 1988, pp 4-5 and 20. ‘Vote for Britain’ p. 11. Ibid. p. 11. See e.g. Steven Partridge, ‘Conserving Our Environment’ in British Nationalist 32, October 1983, pp. 3-4. This was something the […]

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Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] Fine Gael, in the run-up to the next election. This necessary compromise is in accordance with what Labour supporters like myself (I still have a residence and vote in the Republic) see as a Gramscian ‘war of position’, whose long term aim is a Labour government. Against this coalition is the present government, whose […]

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