Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] and journalism). Moreover, virtually all the European institutions we take for granted today, or treat as if they ’emerged’ as a matter of course, from the ECSC, EEC and Euratom down to the present European Union, were conceived, designed and brought into existence through the agency of the people involved in Bilderberg. Secrecy What […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] programme of industrial and commercial expansion led by the private sector – were put into practice by the Conservative government in 1970-1971. Heath took Britain into the EEC in early 1973, a move that was designed to secure for the UK, in the longer term, the type of prosperous economy that was perceived to […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] – BP Pension Fund 1973; member of National Liberal Club. STANLEY JOHNSON – World Bank 1966; Conservative Party research department 1969; Countryside Commission 1971; environmental post at EEC 1973; Conservative MEP Isle of Wight and Hampshire 1979-1984; currently Director for Energy Policy of the EU. STEPHAN JOSEPH – Chief Executive of Transport 2000. ALEXANDER […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] the conditions and dropped them into the Chancellor’s red box. The Treasury opposes UK entry into the euro – just as it opposed UK entry into the EEC in 1973. The Bank of England, which would lose much of its power if the UK joined the euro, is now openly sceptical about UK membership […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] read. I was amazed at the content of these files which had little to do with subversion but showed an obsession with immigration and the EU (the EEC at that time). A few weeks later I was invited to have lunch with GKY and Eric Lancasterat the Caledonian Club in Halkin Street, SW1. Eric […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] of the Labour Party. But by 1979 Callaghan was triumphant. Brown was a comical, ridiculed drunk. Wilson was forgotten and discredited. Jenkins had left to become an EEC Commissioner. Barbara Castle, too, had gone to Europe, as Leader of the Labour Group of MEPs. The period 1979-1980 saw Callaghan basking in a kind of […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] this off but once he had done so the Halifax/Butler point of view largely disappeared from UK politics to re-emerge, it could be argued, in various anti- EEC campaigns from the 1960’s onwards. One has to say that the PRO records show Churchill possessing great moral authority:……. Nazism and Hitler were uniquely evil….Britain must […]