[…] meant, how to prepare for it, what that meant for the state. They didn’t prepare because they thought they would lose the election, as 4 5 3 Labour Together member Neal Lawson told us.6 McSweeney’s organisation, largely funded by pro-Israel money, wanted Wes Streeting as leader. They assumed Streeting would succeed Starmer after he […]
[…] describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MOD-NATO et al in the context of the history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having […]
[PDF file]: […] the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) became an objective of large-scale business and finance […]
[…] describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MOD-NATO et al in the context of the history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having […]
[PDF file]: […] muddling through’. But Butskellism wasn’t ‘simply muddling through’. The term came from merging the name of Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer R A Butler with that of Labour Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell and was coined in the mid 1950s, when there was a considerable consensus across the major political parties in the UK about how […]
[PDF file]: […] oppositionist stance as his opportunity to destroy the chances of Barbara Castle (who is promoting the proposals) succeeding Harold Wilson in any future leadership contest within the Labour Party. It soon becomes clear that Callaghan and the trade unions have mobilised a majority against Castle and Wilson. Although considering In Place of Strife to […]
[…] but as ‘Laura Corbyn’. – Bower frequently accuses Corbyn of being a Trotskyite. Elsewhere he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you […]
[…] the pulsed microwave technology that could potentially cause Havana Syndrome symptoms, sources say. Stonehouse In Lobster 82 I reviewed two books about the late John Stonehouse, the Labour MP and Minister, who famously faked his death and went to Australia.20 One of the books was by his daughter Julia, who showed to my satisfaction […]
[PDF file]: […] major part of the answer is that the Conservative governments of the 1980s cut back taxing and spending and let the public sector decline. (And the New Labour governments followed suit.) After 40 years of neglect, the comparison between public provision and public spaces in the UK and the rest of the EU is […]
[PDF file]: […] syndrome, and they opted for one of two monolithic parties, a certain rough justice prevailed.2 However, since 1970 (Edward Heath – 46% of the votes cast) neither Labour nor Conservatives have polled above 45% of the votes cast in a general election. Thatcher didn’t get above 44%, Blair peaked at 43% and 1 This […]
