[…] attended only the first meeting, permanent liaison between National Propaganda and the STO was instituted. Its role, however was not confined to propaganda, as the Ministry of Labour employed it to recruit, supply and supervise volunteers to undertake “those dangerous duties’ others had declined. To execute these duties National Propaganda was granted direct, official […]
[…] Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April. Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab) Answer: the Attorney General: No. Anti- Labour leaflet Much reduced, this is the front cover of an anti-Labour leaflet put out by Information Policy in Northern Ireland. The text, on the other side […]
The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge […]
[…] that after his maiden speech: ‘Rumours began to circulate that Kinnock had been warned by MI5 that if he did pursue these claims, then damaging stories about Labour MPs’ sexual and financial peccadilloes would be leaked to journalists. MI5 wasn’t joking. Pictures of a married former Labour cabinet minister in the company of two […]
[…] in the Beaconsfield by-election in 1982. He was just the sort of agent MI5 wanted at the time, a man who appeared to be committed to the Labour Party but who in fact was – to use Thatcher’s phrase – “one of us” …..MI5 terminated Blair in the late 1980s when it was downgrading […]
[…] MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely […]
[…] late, but this issue is late. The explanation is that the Ramsay half of this operation was persuaded to spend April as an election agent for the Labour party. (And lost!). If the Labour Party and the Lobster seems an odd combination, it is worth pointing out that several of the people at the […]
[…] with the former President and the joint enthusiasm for the ‘third way’ of the two men. In part the answer goes to the heart of Blair’s ‘new Labour’ administration. This has never made any secret of its Atlanticism, many of its key advisers and ministers having spent years as members of the ‘British-American Project […]
[…] actually existed. These four new ones plus two from Wallace’s files and the notorious Edward Short Swiss bank account, have been published as a pamphlet, The Anti- Labour Forgeries, by Labour CRISIS – PO Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year […]
[…] 138) George Thomson, later ennobled as Lord Thomson of Monifieth, was one of the leading pro-EEC members of the Wilson Cabinet and a former Chair of the Labour Committee for Europe. He resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in 1973 when Labour policy shifted into an anti-EEC position, and joined the European Commission. Thomson is […]
