[PDF file]: […] none of it is really that important and there will always be sufficient ‘sensible’ people around to maintain the status quo). Where Blair and Brown led, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Miliband brothers followed. The exit of Ed Miliband as Labour leader in 2015 after a failure to win a general election was […]
[PDF file]: […] resulted in career death merely slowed him down. What of the future? Johnson has used his position as Mayor of London as a vehicle to undermine David Cameron and to campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party. The office has provided him with endless opportunities for selfadvertisement from appearing in East Enders to […]
[PDF file]: […] more urgent. He was going to dramatically increase fees in order to get rid of them! And politicians wonder why they are not trusted. In fact, the Cameron government dropped the ball by allowing the whole sector to raise fees to the highest level. The assault on Higher Education looks set to be renewed […]
[PDF file]: […] was a tactic which went down well with many in the electorate, and has been used time and again to good electoral effect by Thatcher’s successors. David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne liked to talk about how their governments championed the ‘strivers’, all of them (so it was argued) good British folk, not […]
[PDF file]: The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history Scott Newton Routledge, 2017, £29.99, p/b One image recurred throughout my reading of this closely-argued and finelywritten book. The elegant but deadly assassin, played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), is despatching one obstacle after another as he approaches his ultimate […]
[PDF file]: […] system for Parliamentary elections as recently as 1950 when university graduates and company directors (again, the upper classes) lost their right to a second (or multiple) vote. Cameron only managed 37% in 2015.3 Turnout, too, has declined. In 1951 Attlee and Churchill took 97% of the votes between them on an 83% turnout. Compared […]
[PDF file]: […] help those, it is you who I am thinking about. We need to back those who invest, invent, sell, make – the producers of this country.’4 David Cameron addressed the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in November, and, though not quite so explicit, talked the same talk. He seeks: ‘a fundamental rebalancing of the […]
[PDF file]: […] more interest is the account of Cameron’s war in Libya and attempted war on Syria. Both MI6 and the Defence Chiefs advised against intervention against Gaddafi, but Cameron went ahead anyway. While the pretext for intervention was, as always, humanitarian, the real object was regime change. MI6 and SAS ‘advisers’ helped train the rebels […]
[PDF file]: […] this, which appeared on Facebook. It’s from Marcus Moore (an ex-BBC employee): ‘A number of changes made during the last seven years or so, spearheaded by David Cameron, have led to the corporation’s news and politics departments becoming little more than ventriloquists’ dummies. Of particular note are the following: (a) important posts at the […]
[PDF file]: […] has sought not only to demonstrate how his political 1 1 reformatted late 2023 Bankers in Whitehall In September Ian Fraser commented on his blog: ‘When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants at Her Majesty’s Treasury went almost unnoticed. This in […]
