[…] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the Blair-Brown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read an account of a (nominally) Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American […]
[…] but having received about 30% of the votes cast in the elections of 1974 and 76, they hardly had a mandate for revolution. But the little that Labour and the unions did deliver was too much for the middle and upper classes. A more equal society means the prosperous lose more via taxation. He […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] supposedly happened in the 70s and 80s, quoting Callaghan as saying in his memoirs that he lost in 1979 because ‘the tide of history had turned against Labour’. This is self-serving. Callaghan lost because he didn’t go to the polls in the autumn of 1978, when strongly advised to do so. Had he done […]
[PDF file]: […] are known to have enjoyed the largesse of the State Department’s IVLP: Patrick Harvie (Green), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Ross Thomson (Con), Patrick Grady (SNP), Kezia Dugdale ( Labour), Jenny Gilruth (SNP) and Angela Crawley (SNP). Of the seven, only Yousaf is or 2 ‘All the jolly boys and girls’ at 3 or 4 2 […]
[PDF file]: […] nothing to see here!’ Also available from the FCO Historians is Origins and Establishment of the Foreign Office Information Research Department, 1946-48. This reveals that, as the Labour government of Clement Attlee was in power at the time: ‘The need to keep the left wing of the Party on side became a factor in […]
[PDF file]: […] was the man who had famously been exposed as not having any idea of the level of JobSeekers Allowance at the hustings during the campaign for the Labour Party leadership! And once he had lost that election decided to devote himself to making money, lots of money. In 2011-2012, he earned a modest £446,000 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
