[…] 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 […]
[…] There is a considerable overlap of personal and funding with the TUCETU. The fingerprints of British and American spooks are everywhere to be found.(1) The Dulverton Trust: Tory money for the union right With the return of a Labour government, keeping the UK labour movement on side is back on the establishment agenda of […]
[…] increase the political strike power of the Leader’s Office and to invest in the sort of advanced marketing techniques that Saatchi & Saatchi had deployed for the Tory Party. Of course, this did not happen. New Labour’s membership sunk to about 200,000 members, many of them disenchanted, while the Opposition Tories are drifting towards […]
[…] back as World War 1, show the kind of continuity of belief, personnel and action visible elsewhere on the Right; and, here as elsewhere in the his tory of the British Right, there is little information readily available. Other than the Tory Party itself, the only significant organisation which has survived on the Right […]
[…] in which you, or a co-conspirator, are named as the proxy. You now control someone else’s vote. In 1998, two councillors decided to prevent a Labour vic tory in the elections of Hackney Council, North London. So enthusiastic were their efforts that the prosecutor at their subsequent trial described their efforts as ‘the largest […]
[…] claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster and 1979 is their Year Zero. There is a curious symmetry here: at the end of the […]
[…] 1995, £20 Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative his tory. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake’s standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The Nation provides an upstairs and downstairs view […]
[PDF file]: The Nasty Party Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain Phil Burton-Cartledge London: Verso, 2021 Scott Newton The British Conservative Party is one of the most successful election winning machines in the world. It has been in power, either on its own or as part of a coalition, for 71 […]
[…] from MI5, I presume – sicced onto me to pick my brains. This happened in 1987/8 when I was deeply embroiled with Colin Wallace and his s tory about anti-Labour hanky panky in Northern Ireland. I was on the phone to him every day and was talking to lots of journalists who were trying […]
[…] in revolt against the authoritarian aspects of trades unionism and Old Labour. The following letter to Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance takes up the s tory at the very end – at that point where it became clear that dialogue could go no further. Dear Sean, I was sincerely disappointed that ‘conversation’ […]
