[…] benefit in the campaign for the presidency. Oliver North, who had worked with Secord and the CIA in Laos, worked with him again on the Saudi AWACS vote and was quickly moved to the National Security Council in August 1981 after only a year at the Naval War College (Wall Street Journal, 12/12/86, p.54; […]
The Westminster Whistleblowers: Shirley Porter, homes for votes and twenty years of scandal in Britain’s rottenest borough Paul Dimoldenberg London: Politicos, 2006, £12.99, p/b The author was a Labour councillor in Westminster during Porter’s ‘reign of terror’ and was instrumental in eventually bringing her down. With an insider’s view he has written an immensely … Read more
[…] quickly. This has been a long campaign on Merseyside in which an enormous amount of educational activities have been going on. When the Police Authority came to vote on the issue even the magistrates voted for the refusal! Chris Pounder, who has been acting as an adviser to the Merseyside Police Authority on this […]
[…] immediately it began to slip away from the politicians’ concept. In September 1948 the first head, Ralph Murray, suggested transferring part of the costs to the secret vote. ‘The need to recruit specialist staff, free from the limitations of civil service pay and conditions’ was ‘one of the considerations’. More importantly, ‘In addition, the […]
[…] the East End of London, the fact remains, as Dorril points out, that the BUF could not elect a single councillor, let alone an MP. Its highest vote was in Bethnal Green in March 1937 when a BUF council candidate got 23% of the vote. From this point of view, the role of anti-Semitism […]
[…] Times even runs intelligent discussions of the PC issue on occasion. But judging from FAIR’s monthly publication Extra!, FAIR is increasingly in the PC camp. They de vote more and more space to soft issues, while carefully paying ritual homage to the god of cultural diversity. As for Erwin Knoll, longtime editor of The […]
[…] a powerful tool for keeping people toeing a certain economic line. At the low end of the neo-liberal scale, for example in Mexico, democracy works like this: vote for the PRI or PAN and have some waterproof cardboard to roof your shack; vote for the PRD and we’ll kill you. Higher up the social […]
[…] European elections. Crucially, senior staff at the BBC managed the news to such an extent that the Pro-Euro Conservative Party, which received just 1% of the popular vote, received infinitely more coverage than did my Party, which achieved 8% of the vote. Yet, when we met with Mr Mitchell and his colleagues on 31 […]
[…] his roles as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then Chancellor of the Exchequer. On the question of whether or not European electorates should be asked to vote on joining the single currency, Lamont quotes Kok as saying this: If we let Parliaments interfere (sic) in this matter then they may vote against the […]
[…] August ’88). From being a local election agent, I know that Winter’s account of the votes being put into bundles by party is true. But at the vote counting the ballot papers were put into locked metal boxes. At some point they must be transferred to the paper sacks for disposal. This is presumably […]
