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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 52 My encounter with George K. Young and Tory Action, 1979-1988 John Andrews In 1978 I read a report of a speech on subversion by a Mr G. K. Young ('GKY') a former 'deputy director' of MI6. It said that he was a banker. I had been a student at LSE 1972-1975, my tutor was an expert on the Soviet Bloc and I had studied Soviet politics. Fears of Soviet ...
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... 1960s "Rhodesia" was indelibly graven.(1) With the arrival of Mrs Thatcher in 1975 came "the New Right", with about as much claim to be called "new" as had the "New Left' a decade earlier. Although the Tory right has a history with the same kinds of continuities and discontinuities as the Labour left, it lacks a detailed historical record like there is of the Labour left, for the Tory right has mostly organised semi-clandestinely.(2) The best example of this is ...
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... yet filtered through to the mainstream media in Britain. With his hairpiece and all, the 'Mad Major' Wall is often presented as something of a figure of fun- but he isn't that. His '92 Group' seems to have remained a well-kept secret within the Tory Party for over twenty years until 1983, and is now reported to be the largest Tory Party grouping at Westminster, with over 80 MPs. The 'New Right' discovered by the media in the late 1970s (essentially after Thatcher came to power), is ...
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... astonishing 15-year campaign waged against Owen Oyston by Michael Murrin, the owner of a fish and chip shop in the village of Longridge, Lancs, was backed by help and cash payments raised by two former government ministers and a millionaire friend of Margaret Thatcher. The former Tory ministers are Sir Robert Atkins and Lord Blaker. Their target was the Labour Party's biggest private contributor in the days of Neil Kinnock's leadership. Sir Robert Atkins was once John Major's best friend in the Commons. He was the MP for South Ribble from 1983 to ...
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... were either Liberal-held, or three-way splits, when the Liberals had been keeping Labour out of office since 1923); or that the Tories' 154 net gains in 1924 came from Labour (two thirds were from the Liberals); or that the increase in the Tory vote came from former Labour voters. Labour's numerical vote increased by 24%: if Zinoviev was meant to reduce the Labour vote, it was a total failure. Labour's vote was up on 1923 in almost every seat it contested, even in the ones it ...
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... , like most of the assertions in these later chapters, is not sourced there is no way to check.) Diehards 1920-79? And this is a history built on a theory. In the early post-World War One years, there emerged a nationalistic section of the Tory Party called the Diehards. Hughes purports to trace them all the way from 1920 to Mrs Thatcher's triumph in 1979. At least that is how it looks most of the time, although sometimes it's Diehards, with the capital 'D' and sometimes diehards without. ...
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... return to a New Labour fold that sets fair to accommodate its concerns over time- albeit in part because no non-Tory alternative vehicle exists or is likely to exist in order to accept it. Placing the opportunistic Liberal Democrats to one side, we now glance at the Tory conundrum. We see not only a complete busted flush politically but one which has become a spoiler for any 'transvaluation of values' in politics. It is like a dead-weight on political free thought, unable, in its three-year window of opportunity, to out-flank New ...
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... 73) While NAFF can be said to have grown out of these groups the implied continuity is misleading. What does the Institute for Economic Affairs, a private think tank for the classical liberal economist hold-outs in the post-war era of Keynes, have in common with a Tory Party money 'laundry' like British United Industrialists, or a private anti-left, anti-union outfit like the Economic League? Nugent's analysis fails most seriously in completely ignoring the military/intelligence input into NAFF. At various times NAFF attracted to its Council Robert Moss and Brian ...
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... Wilson- Wilson's vulnerability alleged to be his relationship with Marcia Falkender, presumably all the rumours of their having had a sexual relationship. Included in these notes is a fairly detailed analysis of voting patterns in the General Elections from 1964 onwards, and an analysis of the Tory Party leadership stakes when Heath goes. This last section is preceded by this sentence, fairly startling in what it takes for granted: "The key issue is, therefore, whether there should be cosmetic treatment to help elect a weak government under Heath, or ...
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... on counter-insurgency added (26); and in 1972, with the Army embroiled in a counter-insurgency situation in Northern Ireland, Kitson was given command of the Belfast Brigade and the chance to try out some of his theories.(27) By 1972 politicians on the Tory right had begun to speak publicly of the need for Army involvement in civil affairs on the UK mainland. Winston Churchill MP, a member of the right-wing Monday Club, called for the use of troops to break the (first) miners' strike, ( ...
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