[…] 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 […]
[…] before entry.(29) In Gordon Brown’s inane cliché, if prudence is for a purpose, part of the purpose appears to be joining the single currency. Assuming a ‘yes’ vote in a referendum, the next hurdle is the five conditions that have to be met laid out by Brown at the beginning of Labour’s first term: […]
[…] understanding that between the election of British National Party Councillor Derek Beackon in late 1993 and his loss of the seat in mid-1994, the British National Party vote actually increased. Beyond these shores, when it comes to contemporary fascism, he is equally ignorant, showing not that slightest grasp of the predominant organisational form 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 […]
[…] in Britain’s shaky post-war situation economic information should be given a high priority. It was indeed satisfying when a single report could pay for the annual Secret Vote several times over. This was the pattern which, in his later appointments, Young attempted to set for the whole service. One report, however, did not meet […]
[…] to get Bush Jnr. elected both times. I do not have direct knowledge of the operation, but research “Robert Gates”, “Bill Owns”, “electronic voting security”, “HAVE”, “ vote here” and “Scientific Applications International Crop”. The operation went so well that Gates was going to be made the first ever Director of National Intelligence. He […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
[…] the US State Department could not have foreseen the collapse of Communism nor the expansion of Europe (to the point where it would have its own bloc vote of small liberal countries) nor troops in Romania nor the triumph of the ‘third way’. It has never been in as much control of the agenda […]
[…] Ireland and, indeed, the failure to suspend Brookeborough’s government in the 1940s, the moment that it resisted the introduction of the Beveridge Plan and one person one vote throughout the rest of the UK. While Wilson quite rightly scrapped the USC in 1970 (in accordance with the Hunt Commission’s recommendations), he should have also […]
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
