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... his famous remark that he had not taken office to oversee the destruction of His Majesty's empire, Churchill had actually done precisely that to pay for the war: and the process continued after it. It was left to some of the Tory Right and some of the Labour Left- the same groups that are still sceptical of the European Union- to oppose the acceptance of the conditions attached to the post-war US loans. The Council on Foreign Relations Planning for the US takeover of the countries of non-communist Europe was done, during the ...
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... Next Issue 50 The Blairs and their Court Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, 18.99, h/b John Newsinger According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and the answer they came up with saw tens of thousands of them becoming ex-Labour Party members. More important, of course was not why Blair himself was ...
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... what the content of MI5 information gathering (and misinformation generation) actually looked like is visible. Wallace made these notes between the two general elections of 1974 and it is the anticipated second election which hangs over them. The central theme is MI5's claim, that the Labour Party of 1974 was under the influence of the Soviet Union: 'It is estimated that between 20 and 30 Labour MPs are members of the Communist Party." And there is a list of Labour politicians "who are belief to be communists and who hold positions ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 44 The party of business and the business of parties Labour Party plc David Osler Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 15.99, 2002 Colin Challen MP Having written a history of Conservative Party funding, (1) I had been wondering when somebody would get round to doing a similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks to show that Labour, or should we say New Labour ...
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... government's expense- a trip, incidentally, neither the Sopel nor Rentoul biographies of Blair mentioned. (1) Blair had always been sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with Board of Deputies of British Jews President Eldred Tabachnik, (2) and had joined the Labour Friends of Israel on becoming an MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London. (3) Levy was a retired businessman who ...
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... The picture that emerges of Blair is striking in its variance from much of his public image but not necessarily to his disadvantage. He is a rather more mundane figure than the PR machine would have us believe. Early Blair The PM had no great connection with the Labour Party (his father was a Conservative barrister, widely tipped as likely to get a seat in Parliament before a disabling stroke) and has, arguably, no great connection either with the English or UK way of life, having spent his early childhood in Australia ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 33 Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become 'contaminated' by the interest in it taken by the US Right.(1) I had never thought of it as that, but 'contamination' is exactly right. Peters' naming of ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 51 The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir Tim Pendry In March of this year, there was a major scandal over party funding in the United Kingdom. To some of us, this was an accident waiting to happen. In a country with many millions of voters who are allowed to exercise that vote only once every four or five years, relatively small numbers of people belong to those two or three political parties whose struggles eventually ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 44 New Labour Notes Ah, the wonderful private sector In 'Blair anti-corruption plan weakened by British firms' in The Independent 2 September 2002, Geoffrey Lean reported: 'Britain has the world's most corrupt companies, and some of the weakest legislation among industrialised countries for dealing with them....Half of the 70 companies identified by the World Bank as so corrupt that it has decided never to do business with them are based in Britain.' Lean ...
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... Home Counties. Islington South: a Labour-free zone? Not that life inside the M25 is getting much easier for New Labourites. On the same day that H'Angus was elected in Hartlepool, Islington South- the constituency as near as anywhere to the spiritual home of New Labour- lost its last few Labour councillors. Sacked New Labour Cabinet minister Chris Smith now finds himself without a single Labour councillor in his constituency and the party that was once proud to be Blair's Praetorian guard is effectively moribund. Friends of Mo Smith gets no mention ...
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