[…] we have are politicians who are driven by NuLab’s major policy imperatives: pleasing the City and following what focus groups tell them. I do not believe that Brown, Balls et al are unaware of the consequences of what E and A call the borrowing binge we have been going through in this country in […]
[…] public transport as an organised, planned and publicly owned endeavour. And the man himself? Agreeing (in a restaurant in Islington in 1994) that another person – Gordon Brown – would effectively be the real prime minister wielding huge power over all government policy and strategy whilst Blair concentrated on a presentational, presidential role. Scott […]
[…] letter to the Bank of England in May 1997, ‘The new monetary policy framework’, announcing the formation of the MPC and setting out its terms of reference, Brown referred to Labour’s manifesto commitment that they would ‘ensure that decision-making on monetary policy is more effective, open, accountable and free from short-term political manipulation‘. (emphasis […]
[…] doesn’t mention Loy Factor around whom the book is built. On p.812 Armstrong tells us: ‘Some researchers speculate that the man wearing the horn-rimmed glasses and the brown coat may have been Lyndon Johnson’s associate Mac Wallace whose fingerprint may have been found on one of the boxes near the window…’ . On p.375 […]
[…] or was about to become Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel were simply untrue. I have never sought or wanted such a position.’ Gordon Brown also apparently has the interests of Israel close to his heart. A report in the Jewish Telegraph 27 June 2003 described Gordon Brown addressing the annual […]
[…] is clearly the seminars given to the New Labour government-in-waiting by Andersen Consulting, the people who signed-off on the accounts of Enron, the shysters’ shysters. And Gordon Brown has been at the centre of this; this has been his project at least as much as happy-clappy Tony’s. For all that New Labour people think […]
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
[…] the British secret state was, I presume, its financial support by Libya. It seems clear that contact with Libya is taken very seriously by our spooks. Ron Brown MP had visited Libya and he has now been discredited as a result of his affair with Nona Longden. Brown claimed some months ago in the […]
[…] the veterans of D-Day who then voted Labour in such large numbers in 1945? Lucas also prompts many thoughts along the way. Why, for example, does Gordon Brown spend so much time in the company of Rupert Murdoch’s Neocon American pal Irwin Stelzer? He also is not, as some reviewers have suggested, harsh on […]
[…] examines the US military’s heavy reliance on PMCs (Private Military Companies) to help with the provision of essential support services in Iraq. In the vanguard is Kellogg Brown and Root, which just happens to be a subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton. Particularly heartening is the final paragraph: ‘If conditions in Iraq continue […]
