[PDF file]: […] Harold Macmillan, yet he made less impression than any of those figures even at the time.’ A fair point, although his elevation to the premiership certainly had Labour rattled, rightly as it turned out on election night two years later. ‘The Conservatives have found their Attlee,’ said Lord (Douglas) Jay at the time in […]
[PDF file]: The crisis Robin Ramsay The political problem Sitting in the pub, a friend of mine said he couldn’t understand what was going on in the Labour Party at the moment. I said something to the effect that they had a problem: almost everything they believed about economic policy for the past 25 years was […]
[PDF file]: […] a great many people. Given the importance of the CPGB on the British left, in the trade unions and as a source of both policy for the Labour Party and problems for Labour governments, it would be difficult to overstate the political significance of this. One of the reasons the UK did not become […]
[…] to me and may explain why ‘fund manager’ Jeremy Hosking is preparing to spend getting on for a £1 million of his money trying to unseat pro-Remain Labour MPs in the election, to prevent ‘backsliding on Brexit’. Hosking said ‘that new Tory MPs from traditionally Labour-held seats would help safeguard a “full, national 5 […]
[PDF file]: […] fragments we could. Three things have changed. There are now mountains of information in the major media; there is no point in pushing this material at the Labour Party in the hope of getting political action because they 8 9 10 11 5 Brain waves Three significant pieces warning us about the dangers of […]
[PDF file]: […] would be pulped; but it wasn’t. Some years later I received an anonymous phone call. A middle aged man with an RP accent told me that the Labour Party had contacted the publisher of PCP and offered to pay to suppress the book. How thrilling! Then I asked how much was offered: £5000. Which […]
[…] 40 years and is thus one of the architects of the disastrous mess the UK is in. In his column of 17 April, ‘Truss’s excuse sounds like Labour in 1976’, he considered Liz Truss’s claims that her economic policies were undermined by unelected officials, notably in the Office for Budget Responsibility. He commented: ‘Anyone […]
[PDF file]: […] a far greater scandal than ‘Hackgate’, but it goes virtually unremarked. Indeed, it looks as if Murdoch is actually succeeding in the old game of playing the Labour and Conservative parties off against each other. Not only has the Murdoch press given Cameron a public warning, but the Sun also made clear that it […]
[PDF file]: […] the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government and the Foreign Office made serious attempts, without success, to acquire […]
[PDF file]: […] EEC during the 1975 referendum and supported the so-called Alternative Economic Strategy. This was developed to oppose the monetary orthodoxy that was used to first hobble the Labour Government of the 1970s and then to crucify the UK economy when Margaret Thatcher gave the UK monetarism at full throttle. Although he wrote articles from […]
