Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the back of the Mini which had rescued him when his official car broke down,23 George Brown was the premier comic political figure of his time. When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell suddenly died in 1963, George Brown was widely expected to be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the Irish 4 The sections in italics, INQ 1873, have been added by hand in the original. In 1987 someone anonymously sent me a collection of anti- Labour forgeries from the mid 1970s period. They were reproduced at end of Paul Foot’s Who framed Colin Wallace?, still available from . One of those forgeries, […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] on 4 November, the day before England went into its second national lockdown, the House of Commons voted 516 to 38 in favour of the restrictions, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats backing the government. But 50 Conservative MPs rebelled, either by voting against the motion or abstaining; and in the three-hour debate before […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Darwen, Lancashire: Red Sea Books, 2021, £16.99, h/b Nick Must At a macro level, this is a fairly simple story: Owen Oyston, a multi-millionaire supporter of the Labour Party,1 was subject to a politically motivated smear campaign that lasted nearly two decades. Andrew Rosthorn identifies the three main instigators and manipulators as being a […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] was the man who had famously been exposed as not having any idea of the level of JobSeekers Allowance at the hustings during the campaign for the Labour Party leadership! And once he had lost that election decided to devote himself to making money, lots of money. In 2011-2012, he earned a modest £446,000 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes within Labour put up […]