[PDF file]: […] in 1992 ‘with a smaller electorate’; and that Labour’s defeat was down more to their voters either voting LibDem or abstaining than defecting to the Tories. The Labour vote fell by 2.6 million. The conclusion they draw from this is that Johnson’s popularity was exaggerated. (p. 137) What they do not do is adequately […]
[PDF file]: […] granted. Delays set in almost immediately. The tentative consultation signalled by the White Paper Your Right to Know didn’t begin until December 1997, some seven months after Labour had formed its first government since 1979.2 Three years later, the Lord Chancellor’s department proposed that the new legislation should be phased in with delays between […]
[…] which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, which led to the disaster of Thatcher, were still fresh in the collective party memory. The pursuit […]
[PDF file]: […] difficult to square this concern for political honesty and the truth with Oborne working at the Daily Mail, of all papers. My suspicion was that, once New Labour had been replaced by a Conservative government, Oborne would inevitably be put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge […]
[PDF file]: […] to ensure effective Parliamentary democratic scrutiny of the intelligence and security services.’ It was signed by just 9 of the House of Commons current 650 members, eight Labour MPs and one Liberal-Democrat.26 25 26 12 security. An informed and responsible debate is needed.’ ‘……should be able to undertake its own investigations as the members […]
[…] disproportionate costs for firms. (Emphasis added.) Shorting is gambling on future share prices. Far from encouraging it, you might 9 or 10 11 5 think that a Labour government would simply ban it. But hey, if the gambling is made easier, we’ll get have of it in London. Economic growth! You think? You may […]
[…] needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc of history may be long, or 3 4 5 […]
[…] needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, or 3 4 5 2 uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc of history may be […]
[PDF file]: […] – the economy, especially in the South – could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labour. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone […]
[PDF file]: […] had proved so destructive, committed itself to sustaining through its own spending an overall level of economic activity (‘aggregate demand’) capable of generating the full employment of labour and capital. This was supplemented by support for welfare states financed by progressive taxation and the proceeds of economic growth. Workers enjoyed job security and good […]
