[…] them.(1) In New Zealand, a bunch of true believers imposed this catastrophic nonsense on their own country. This was allowed to happen because the politicians in the Labour government, which let this process begin, didn’t know enough about economics (as was true in the UK at the same time); because the opposition to these […]
[…] possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the Net. His ‘Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, the US Embassy’s International Visitor Program and the Labour Party in the 1980s’(1) shows how the US cultivated the leaders of NuLab. ‘This article looks at the influence of US public diplomacy in the UK, […]
[…] and the journalist with the closest links to the British intelligence services, Chapman Pincher, both said that elements of MI5 had been trying to bring down the Labour Government during 1974-76 – and nothing happened. There was no serious investigation by British journalists, the Labour Party or the Labour Government. In Wilson, MI5 and […]
[…] indeed, even the Mosley of the 1930 Manifesto or the New party. The majority of the Blair quotes date from after 1990; approximately half since he became Labour leader. I have left each quote unidentified except by a number. The reader may thus speculate on who said or wrote what. (Readers seeking clues should […]
[…] had anything to do with MI6, but it sounds like an almost perfect cover.’ (p.x) It is interesting to note that Jenkins thought this, most politicians (especially Labour) are incredibly naive in intelligence matters. Jenkins was pretty near the truth. The Chairman of the company was Lord Glenconner (Tennant) who joined the Special Operations […]
[…] in Britain….the main reason I wrote a novel is that the British laws on libel make it difficult, if not impossible, to describe the penetration of the Labour Party as the conspiracy which many people are certain it is.’ (pp. 59-60) Another outstanding example of this genre also used by Deacon is Frederick Forsyth’s […]
[…] of this and bought it for about $30 and it isn’t worth the money. This is a detailed account of some of the intellectual processes behind ‘New Labour’, focusing on IPPR and Demos in particular. The author has read the documents, articles and pamphlets produced by the little group of intellectuals who paved the […]
[…] door.()At least McDonald and Cusack acknowledge that there was sectarian violence on both sides and that the failure of the Civil Rights movement to root itself in labour politics and distance itself from Republican goals enabled a self-serving rabble-rouser like Ian Paisley to contribute to the biggest example of self-fulfilling prophecy in […]
[…] in the essential services, and were linked to rumours that elements in the military and intelligence establishment were contemplating some kind of coup to overthrow the minority Labour government which had taken up office in March 1974. This view was expressed at the time by Tony Benn (2) and supported by the later publications […]
[…] Smith picked up the Fabian version of the white man’s burden concept and went to Nigeria in the early 1950s for the Colonial Office. Working in the Labour Ministry, he drafted some of Nigeria’s labour and factory legislation. His memoir is a fascinating insight into the underbelly of British colonial administration. Smith not only […]
