Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] into Careerism, Thatcherism and Atlanticism. Correctly, the authors attribute most of the key changes to Blair’s predecessors; Neil Kinnock, who accepted the inevitability of membership of the EEC, and John Smith who accepted the futility of trying to run Keynesian economics in one country. This, latter belief, as the authors note, was considered proven […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] about Bilderberg cited by Peters, which the editor had baulked at. The largest group of articles are those commenting on or opposing Britain’s membership of the then EEC and the propaganda being put out in favour of it. The second biggest group is articles criticising the City of London. In the Financial Times? The […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] as to how to integrate the party with the new form of statehood that will emerge in about ten years time. Blinded by the idea that the EEC offered unfettered free trade, the Party entered into the Treaty of Rome promising that it would have no impact on British sovereignty. But now the British […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] the manufacturing base after the Thatcher governments had a go at it. This country’s fishing industry was largely wrecked as part of the price of entering the EEC in 1972. The steel industry was ‘rationalised’, and, like coal, was mostly closed in the 1980s. Agriculture is being reduced under ‘set aside’ schemes and another […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] of 0.5 of a percentage point on 21 March. There was a warm international reception, too, with ‘relief and satisfaction’ being expressed by the OECD. (38) The EEC Six called the Budget ‘courageous’, with the European Commission forecasting a British balance of payments surplus by the end of the year.(39) The IMF was said […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] to me how any foreign secretary could know if the spooks decided to deceive him/her. There are, as always, interesting snippets. ‘When Britain’s application to join the EEC was finally accepted he was allowed to place some of his personnel on the personal staffs of British commissioners, making George Thomson’s private office in Strasbourg […]