Election-rigging in the UK

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] – the less well off – simply disappeared from the electoral register to avoid payment. No-one’s quite sure how many voters disappeared in this way, but Baroness Thatcher herself has been quoted as saying that the Poll Tax helped win the ropey-looking 1992 election for the Conservative party. She put the number of disappearing […]

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] spelling of General Galtieri. Sinking the Belgrano was popular with the majority of the Brits who were deep into a nostalgic imperial relapse at the time; Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election at a canter; and the British government did not invite Galtieri to send in his troops. World in Review is also dotted […]

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Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Her ideological mentor, Sir Keith Joseph, commented in 1976 that ‘the pursuit of income inequality will turn this country into a totalitarian slum’. During the 1979 election Thatcher told BBC reporter Michael Cockerell, ‘I can’t bear Britain in decline, I just can’t’.18 Like the coup plotters, the Thatcher governments were determined to reverse a […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 ‘New Marxism charge for privileges body’, […]

What if…

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Atkinson and Elliot’s Going South, in Lobster 65,1 Simon Matthews offered a kind of alternative history of British history in the 1970s and 80s, in which Mrs Thatcher did not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let me know such speculation had already been done by Andrew Marr in […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of laudatory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s economic […]

How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] British goods out of export markets.’ (p. 247) (emphases added) Exchange rate policies and high interest rates . . . is there a theme here? Prime Minister Thatcher, Financial Secretary to the Treasury Nigel Lawson and Chancellor Geoffrey Howe were in charge of the economy during the first years of Thatcherism. Mostly it was […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] early and mid 1980s, encouraged a trend to self-employment and a rise in the number of small businesses. Life became unpredictable and sometimes precarious for many; but Thatcher offered compensation to the old working class in the form of popular capitalism. This was based on possession of assets. These generally took two forms: either […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike Scott Newton Witness Testimony There have been persistent rumours, over the 40 years since the miners’ strike of 1984-85, that the Thatcher Government deployed the Armed Forces against the strikers. So far, not one retired soldier has come forward to admit that this happened. Nor are there any […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike Scott Newton Witness Testimony There have been persistent rumours, over the 40 years since the miners’ strike of 1984-85, that the Thatcher Government deployed the Armed Forces against the strikers. So far, not one retired soldier has come forward to admit that this happened. Nor are there any […]

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