[PDF file]: […] during their sojourn in London in 1907. Finkelstein D anny Finkelstein, whose personal political journey has taken him from the Labour Party via the SDP to the Conservative Party, made the following (fairly obvious) statement in The Times on 12 June: ‘….Britain wants a US level of taxation with European levels of spending and […]
[PDF file]: […] repaid – there is now no external debt in the Labour Party.’ or 7 recovery, and advance reasons why Boris Johnson was able to produce a big Conservative majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his […]
[…] and wider society – could scarcely be higher.’3 (emphasis added) But none of our major political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]
[PDF file]: […] 38 OECD countries in terms of the tax-toGDP’.12 Looking further back, the figures show that, with the discovery of North Sea oil and the dominance of the Conservative Party in the 80s and 90s, the UK ‘burden’ fell. Between 1981 and 1995, the UK tax burden fell from a high of 33.9 per cent […]
[PDF file]: […] (Marla Maples) pregnant while still married to his first wife (Ivana Trump), and bragged of having ‘three other girlfriends’ while ‘living with Marla’.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by […]
[PDF file]: […] British establishment. First, on 30 March 1979, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) managed to place a car bomb within the precincts of the Houses of Parliament. Conservative MP Airey Neave, a key figure in the rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months […]
[PDF file]: […] of all things Brexit, until one realizes that their Governors include Michael Gove, Lord Johnson of Marylebone (brother of the PM), Lord Chadlington (President of the Witney Conservative association) and Lord Maude. They are certainly doing their bit for impartiality. As for his book, well . . . it’s all here: a perfectly fair […]
[PDF file]: […] American speaker said that his own analysis had confirmed the broad conclusions indicated in the preceding International intervention. Most of our oil price assumptions were probably too conservative, but $12 looked outside the upper limit.’ 76 (emphases added) It is important to note that estimates to which the participants were referring were all in […]
[PDF file]: […] TaxPayers Alliance, and their influence was at its height during the brief time Liz Truss was Prime Minister. However, one must not underestimate their influence on successive Conservative governments. Bright describes the network as ‘the civil servants of the Bullingdon Club elite – the backroom nerds – who have been commissioned to formulate and […]
[PDF file]: […] Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the reelection of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Party, which he considers to be […]
