[PDF file]: […] didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief architects of the economic mess we are in. This chapter shows how. Robin Ramsay Chapter 8 […]
[PDF file]: […] MP’s: a primary allegiance to personal liberty and a belief in free market economics.4 None of this mattered very much in 2006 or in 2007 when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell […]
[PDF file]: […] to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what passed between […]
[PDF file]: […] what the bankers call a reverse takeover. The scale is mindblowing. RBS’s £2 trillion of liabilities dwarfs not only the government reserves but the entire UK economy. Brown hasn’t so much nationalised the banks, he has bank-ised the nation.’ 4 Nelson used the term ‘bankocracy’, which I thought was recent; Anne Pettifor has used […]
[PDF file]: […] by the CIA. Jonathan Kwitney of the Wall Street Journal tracked down one Paul Sakwa, who told him that he had been the case officer for Irving Brown, the most important CIA agent in the labour movement in Europe, handling Brown’s budget of between $150,000 and $300,000 a year, between 1952 and 1954. From […]
[PDF file]: […] hold such a referendum – and the ways found to avoid it – are discussed by the late Giles Radice in his book Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project (London: I.B.Tauris, 2010). Contradictions rose early on. Peter Mandelson, Minister without Portfolio, was tasked with circulating around European capitals, as Blair’s special emissary, reassuring […]
[PDF file]: […] be no trade surplus and 50 Tony Benn, Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80 (London: Hutchinson, 1990) pp. 280/1. Edward Pearce’s biography of Healey, Denis Healey (London: Little Brown, 2002) p. 508, attributes the decision to Healey supported by Treasury ministers Lever and Barnett; with the kicker that the fund notion was rejected in part […]
[PDF file]: […] continued Thatcher’s neoliberalism, with successive left-wing administrations actively encouraging the excesses of the financial sector’. (p. 245) Obviously, the first problem here is whether the Blair or Brown governments were in anyway ‘left-wing’. Towards the end of the book, he writes that ‘(t)here is no more brazen example of how Britain has been flogged […]
[PDF file]: […] opposing the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.24 Changes begun under Neil Kinnock were continued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when they became more or less joint party leaders in 1994 and then took office in 1997. Several wars, the banking crisis (and the longest recession […]
[PDF file]: […] write proper biographies. Over 35 years he has published studies – basically investigative journalism – of Klaus Barbie, Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Gordon Brown, Conrad Black, Bernie Ecclestone, Simon Cowell, Richard Branson, Tony Blair and Prince Charles. Working for the BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. […]
