[…] 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 […]
[…] was a Conrad Black paper for which Ledeen wrote, The Daily Telegraph, which lost the libel action in which they claimed the Baghdad ‘documents’ fingered the then Labour MP George Galloway. During the Reagan presidency Ledeen was deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, along with another old neo-con associate, John Negroponte (a key administration […]
[…] was brought down by the Norwegian fiasco (for which Churchill was primarily responsible!), he only succeeded to the office of Prime Minister at the insistence of the Labour Party, who refused to serve under Chamberlain’s candidate, Lord Halifax. This was an historic choice because Halifax would certainly have made peace. Nevertheless Labour’s crucial role […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Matthews, Grattan Healey, David Turner, Jane Affleck, Harlan Girard, Anthony Frewin and Tom Easton for cuttings and other material since the last issue. Two years into New Labour and the loudest sound is the sound of surprise being expressed by people who ought to know better. There were the animal welfare and right-to-roam lobbies […]
[…] of political economics. For years now Chancellor Gordon Brown has taken the credit for the UK’s low interest rates and low inflation. In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 27 September this year he said, for the umpteenth time: ‘Britain today has the lowest inflation for thirty years…. the lowest interest rates […]
[…] Tony Carew and David Ellwood who outlined the effects of the American effort to reorganise European business via the Marshall Plan. With the emphasis on transforming the labour process and ‘professionalising’ management, between 1950-54 900 American ‘productivity consultants’ came to Europe while 7,000 European workers and managers visited the US in order to solidify […]
[…] Mairet and his colleague on the New English Weekly, Maurice Reckitt, were Guild Socialists, while Aubrey Westlake, a London doctor with a Hampshire estate, was active in Labour politics in Bermondsey, later converting to Social Credit. A number of figures later prominent in the organic movement were involved in Dimitrije Mitrinovic’s cosmic-socialist New Britain […]
