[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 […]
[…] Yet his acolytes still print his nonsensical meanderings.’ 15 And yes, he does stand that up, and in spades. * new * The anti-semitism furore And so Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn duly met with the reps of the major Jewish bodies in the UK and one of the aims of their campaign was […]
[PDF file]: […] here by Winstanley was available at the time – notably on his website The Electronic Intifada.3 Most important of all there was For example John Booth’s ‘ Labour, Corbyn and anti-semitism’ in 2017 at . 1 For another, more detailed review, see < . 2 1 3 the Al Jazeera documentaries which had exposed […]
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[PDF file]: […] would be served by investigating operational activities which (it is fair to point out) allegedly occurred over ten years ago (for much of the time under a Labour Administration). Paragraph 13. I am sending copies of this minute to the Home Secretary, and the Northern Ireland Secretary, and to Sir Robin Butler, the Director […]
[PDF file]: […] on repetition. The makers of a certain washing powder used to irritate me enormously with their TV commercials – the same thing, over and over again. The Labour Party were guilty of this too, in the 1997 general election, when they introduced the ‘pledge card’ with five key pledges. John Prescott, for example, would […]
[PDF file]: […] shrugged off as summarily dismissed. How Keynesianism was abandoned in 1976 by Dennis Healey and Jim Callaghan (under pressure from the IMF), and the complicity of the Labour Party, unable or unwilling to counter the monetarist mumbo–jumbo, is described in Davis’ first chapter. Those who have read accounts of this period will have further […]
[PDF file]: […] He appeared to be advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were […]
[PDF file]: […] to over 12 per cent of the workforce by 1986, along with social disorder and bitter class conflict, were still traumatic). Thatcherite reforms sought to weaken organised labour but empower the City through the famous ‘Big Bang’ of 1986, which led to the internationalisation the financial sector – in so doing enabling it to […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] supposedly happened in the 70s and 80s, quoting Callaghan as saying in his memoirs that he lost in 1979 because ‘the tide of history had turned against Labour’. This is self-serving. Callaghan lost because he didn’t go to the polls in the autumn of 1978, when strongly advised to do so. Had he done […]
