[…] the disinformation being pumped out by the anti-left forces in the UK. 36 37 12 I didn’t pay much attention to the Brexit referendum: like Prime Minister Cameron, I assumed ‘Remain’ would win comfortably. Influenced by Larry Elliot at the Guardian, I voted ‘Leave’ for the reason expressed in the last sentence above: the […]
[…] well understood that the EU’s neoliberal rules rendered such a return to social democracy impossible.24 I didn’t pay much attention to the Brexit referendum: like Prime Minister Cameron, I assumed ‘Remain’ would win comfortably. Influenced by Larry Elliot at the Guardian, I voted ‘Leave’ for the reason expressed in the last sentence above: the […]
[…] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘The posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed […]
[PDF file]: […] corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This is centrally about the background to, and the political and state deceptions involved in, getting […]
[PDF file]: […] 50th birthday, 20 April 1939, the Scottish Colonel Noel Mason-Macfarlane had offered to assassinate Hitler. See Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler (London: Random House, 2007). The historian Donald Cameron Watt described Mason-MacFarlane as a ‘courageous eccentric’. See his How War Came, (London: Heinemann, 1989) p. 183. Mason-MacFarlane was Labour MP for Paddington North between 1945 […]
[…] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘The posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed […]
