[…] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *new* Huh? Belatedly, I read the Labour Party manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword includes this: ‘How can it be right that in the fifth richest country in the world, people’s living standards are going […]
[…] by and excluded from politics, largely because their voices matter so little for the reasons above. Effectively, we are all living in Italy under Silvio Berlusconi.’ Wither Labour? I wasn’t going to bother adding my 5p’s worth to the discussion about the Labour Party’s future but then I saw the following quote from Ken […]
[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *new* Huh? Belatedly, I read the Labour Party manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword includes this: ‘How can it be right that in the fifth richest country in the world, people’s living standards are going […]
[…] and How to Do It Chris Bryant London: Bloomsbury, 2023, £14.99, h/b John Newsinger Chris Bryant is a public school–educated former Church of England clergyman, now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a history of Christian […]
[PDF file]: […] The Stats that Reveal Just how Widespread Food Poverty Is In the UK’.11 Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham, made the same claim in her speech to the Labour Party conference: ‘we are the sixth richest economy in the world’.12 Graham also noted that in 1945, when the Labour Party began its creation of social […]
[PDF file]: […] to appear out of the current maelstrom of historic VIP abuse allegations, Smile for the Camera, was highly praised when published in 2014.1 Co-written by Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, and Matthew Baker (who, one suspects, did much of the actual writing), its jacket claims that: ‘it’s about those who knew that abuse […]
[…] The Stats that Reveal Just how Widespread Food Poverty Is In the UK’.11 Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham, made the same claim in her speech to the Labour Party conference: ‘we are the sixth richest economy in the world’.12 Graham also noted that in 1945, when the Labour Party began its creation of social […]
[PDF file]: […] European Union. This perceived illegitimacy was acknowledged by the Conservatives, Greens and UKIP who all offered voters on May 7 the opportunity of a referendum. But not Labour, which hardly mentioned the EU in the campaign, leaving it to Blair to bang the Brussels drum. The former Prime Minister’s other campaign bestowal was £1,000 […]
[PDF file]: […] was weaker than that of either France or Germany, the two other major players in the ERM. Specifically, inflation was three times greater, interest rates higher, and labour productivity lower. The UK insisted on valuing the pound at a high level when it entered the ERM. Partly as a means of attracting money into […]
Contents Political life in Britain Talking to a Brick Wall: How New Labour stopped listening to the voter and why we need a new politics Deborah Mattinson London: Biteback, 2010, £17.99 People, Politics and Pressure Groups: Memoirs of a lobbyist Arthur Butler Hove: Picnic Publishing, £12.99, 2010 Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human […]
