The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s announcement in early August that he would be trying to return to the House of Commons, the answer lay in a s tory in the Daily Telegraph on 8 August headed ‘Brussels plots fresh City of London power grab: European Commission calls for greater powers for Brussels regulators in […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

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[PDF file]: […] Democratic Unionist Party. This originated from the ‘Constitutional Research Council’ (CRC), which appeared to exist without a constitution and only one named individual in charge: a failed Tory candidate based in Scotland. The CRC were actually fined £6,0002 (which is less than 1.5% of the original sum) for not properly declaring this donation. The […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of lauda tory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s […]

Who pays the piper? Funding the Labour Party

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[PDF file]: […] they wanted to help in marginal seats to oust Tories. Looking at the latest available list of donors for 2022, there are new names. For example ex- Tory donor Gareth Quarry who, according to the Guardian, said ‘The moral standards of the party have been completely trashed over many years.’ He added: ‘My wife […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks s tory. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as […]

Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: […] of Lords membership, the total numbers aren’t great, but even so finding ten Labour peers with current or very recent remunerated cyber security interests and only one Tory suggests the area has a particular appeal. My review of the Register has probably missed a few others, possibly on both sides, since not all entries […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Thatcherism’ – championing big business, deregulating the financial sector, continuing privatisations and effectively handing the state over to business consultants. After 2008, Brown prepared the way for Tory Austerity and the creation of contemporary Food Bank Britain, afloat in a sea of raw sewage courtesy of the privatised water companies and their shareholders. For […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks s tory. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as […]

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[…] is now hoping for a big majority through which to assert some control, not to pursue some hard Brexit, but to bury the referendum and return the Tory Party in government to close alignment with the City of London and big business. That centres upon something she has been trailing for some weeks, to […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. *new* Slating Slate ‘We Cracked the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition’ ran the selfcongratula tory headline to a 22 October piece on Slate.com.2 This claim, though, was complete hogwash. All they had succeeded in doing was to exploit the poor methodology […]

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