[…] 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 […]
[…] elections. (For all their chatter about ‘mould breaking’ and the centre ground, the effect of the SDP was utterly divisive and destructive.) The splitting of the anti-Tory vote on these two occasions was so significant that no political party, under even brilliant leadership, could have gone from where Labour was in 1983 to forming […]
[…] a bomb into the U.K. and cause an apparent nuclear accident close to a U.S. air force base in East Anglia. This would ‘panic the 10% floating vote into unilateralism, and support at the polls the only party pledged to unilateralism, the Labour Party.’ (p.179) An analogous theme, of radioactive waste and the KGB, […]
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
[…] movement of capital, the global role of the City and the international status of sterling as (then) the world’s leading reserve currency. They tended to be Anglican, vote Conservative, send their children to the public schools and Oxbridge and to live in the London suburbs and the Home Counties. By the second half of […]
[…] reading, is not stated. US one-world conspiracy theorists please note: BP, RIIA and Fabians, all at once! In 1979 Butler was co-author, with Neil Kinnock, of Why Vote Labour? ‘By the autumn of 1981 her economic policies made her the least approved-of Prime Minister since Dr Gallup invented opinion polls. The government did not […]
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more
