[PDF file]: […] happen? Some had few doubts: ‘he Prime Minister felt resentment towards his predecessor, Harold Wilson. Soviet espionage was, in Heath’s view, only one of many issues the Labour government had handled badly between 1964 and 1970. Wilson and his colleagues, though well aware of the problem caused by increasing numbers of Soviet spies, had […]
[PDF file]: […] the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes within Labour put up […]
[…] Yet his acolytes still print his nonsensical meanderings.’ 15 And yes, he does stand that up, and in spades. * new * The anti-semitism furore And so Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn duly met with the reps of the major Jewish bodies in the UK and one of the aims of their campaign was […]
[PDF file]: […] here by Winstanley was available at the time – notably on his website The Electronic Intifada.3 Most important of all there was For example John Booth’s ‘ Labour, Corbyn and anti-semitism’ in 2017 at . 1 For another, more detailed review, see < . 2 1 3 the Al Jazeera documentaries which had exposed […]
[PDF file]: […] State: How America Runs Britain Angus Hanton London: Swift Press, 2024, £25.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b John Booth A 10-minute drive from the North Queensferry home of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the second-largest Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the United Kingdom. Long in the planning during New Labour’s years in government, its 1.5 […]
[PDF file]: […] on repetition. The makers of a certain washing powder used to irritate me enormously with their TV commercials – the same thing, over and over again. The Labour Party were guilty of this too, in the 1997 general election, when they introduced the ‘pledge card’ with five key pledges. John Prescott, for example, would […]
[PDF file]: […] He appeared to be advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] would be served by investigating operational activities which (it is fair to point out) allegedly occurred over ten years ago (for much of the time under a Labour Administration). Paragraph 13. I am sending copies of this minute to the Home Secretary, and the Northern Ireland Secretary, and to Sir Robin Butler, the Director […]
[PDF file]: […] shrugged off as summarily dismissed. How Keynesianism was abandoned in 1976 by Dennis Healey and Jim Callaghan (under pressure from the IMF), and the complicity of the Labour Party, unable or unwilling to counter the monetarist mumbo–jumbo, is described in Davis’ first chapter. Those who have read accounts of this period will have further […]
[PDF file]: […] to over 12 per cent of the workforce by 1986, along with social disorder and bitter class conflict, were still traumatic). Thatcherite reforms sought to weaken organised labour but empower the City through the famous ‘Big Bang’ of 1986, which led to the internationalisation the financial sector – in so doing enabling it to […]
