[…] 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
Luke Harding, David Leigh and David Pallister Penguin, 1997, £6.99 George Orwell said that Robinson Crusoe was a good example of a bad book, clumsily written but of natural interest due to its subject. The same is true here. Heroic and triumphant in tone, the troika of authors concentrate mainly on the paraphernalia, research and … Read more
[…] 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, […]
[PDF file]: Brexit: an accident waiting to happen Simon Matthews In the current British political crisis, caused by the Brexit vote, four factors, often ignored, are crucial: * electoral legitimacy (and the lack thereof of most Westminster governments since 1970); * the corrosive consequences of an unregulated media; * the increasingly poor educational standards prevalent in […]
[PDF file]: […] Social Democratic Alliance, a group within the Labour Party from 1975. Outside the Labour Party from 1980 they ran candidates in the 1981 GLC elections, splitting the vote and ensuring that Ted Knight was defeated as Labour candidate in Norwood. Had he been elected, it had been agreed that Knight would become Chair of […]
[PDF file]: […] – at all levels.2 This is odd. Any reading of the 2005 result ought to have signalled problems: Labour had won a majority with a seriously diminished vote; the Conservatives had (finally) made some gains; the Liberal Democrats had advanced further; support for the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, the Green Party, the BNP and […]
[PDF file]: […] have to be treated with caution. They might well be exaggerated and it is not clear how successful they were. For all this anti-Labour propaganda, Labour’s total vote went up in the 1951 General Election. The Information Research Department In the labour movement the Trades Union Congress was working with the newly-formed, Foreign Office-based, […]
[PDF file]: […] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]
[PDF file]: […] joining. In the 1974 General Elections (February and October) Labour committed itself to consultation with the people in a referendum which would give them the chance to vote either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to continued British membership of the EEC. This was held on June 5 1975. 2 position, negotiated some changes to Britain’s terms […]
