Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] 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 […]

Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] 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 […]

An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] 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 […]

RIP The Fourth Decade and Probe

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] 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 […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] 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 […]

Europe Inc and Blowing the Whistle

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 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 […]

Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 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 […]

Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 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: […]

Fascism: Theory and Practice

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] 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 […]

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