Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] protectionism. I have no interest in going back to those days.3 What I want to do, however, is to ensure the British Government supports British manufacturing….The next Labour government will put British design, British invention, British manufacturing at the heart of our economic policy. When I talk about how we need to encourage productive […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] muddling through’. But Butskellism wasn’t ‘simply muddling through’. The term came from merging the name of Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer R A Butler with that of Labour Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell and was coined in the mid 1950s, when there was a considerable consensus across the major political parties in the UK about how […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] syndrome, and they opted for one of two monolithic parties, a certain rough justice prevailed.2 However, since 1970 (Edward Heath – 46% of the votes cast) neither Labour nor Conservatives have polled above 45% of the votes cast in a general election. Thatcher didn’t get above 44%, Blair peaked at 43% and 1 This […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] much of all this was known to Prince Bandar’s good friend in the Oval Office, and when. Smith’s myths The campaign to elect Owen Smith MP as Labour Party leader has been making claims that do not accord with verifiable facts, but the media are reporting them unquestioningly. Chief among these is the claim […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] – or perhaps because of – the Kagame regime’s wholly justified reputation for repression and murder. The grim reality is that both the Conservative government and the Labour opposition are very much in bed with the Kagame regime, and have been for many years now. Indeed the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] but as ‘Laura Corbyn’. – Bower frequently accuses Corbyn of being a Trotskyite. Elsewhere he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Atkinson’s on his site, you will understand this. Here are two quotations. The first is from Elliott and Atkinson (p. 282) quoting the late Peter Shore, sometime Labour cabinet minister and one of the few Labour MPs to understand political economy. ‘Peter Shore asked how a country was to regain competitiveness once it had […]