[…] the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.2 0 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]: […] in the London Borough of Havering.4 Through his extensive Labour Party connections, his tireless advocacy for the north east and his public relations work, Smith met George Brown MP. In October 1964 Brown, deputy leader of the Labour Party and newly appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs, offered Smith an important position at the […]
[PDF file]: […] of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as ‘communism’s angel’ is amusing. But Mr du Berrier’s original report with the Rockefeller quotation in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent […]
[PDF file]: […] we are all here is due to one man’s action; Cameron’s obsessive arse kissing over the years of Rupert Murdoch. Tony Blair was pretty good, as was Brown. But Cameron was the Daddy. . . Cameron wanted Rupert onside as he believed, quite wrongly in my view, that The Sun’s endorsement would help him […]
[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]
[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]
[PDF file]: […] firms that they are believed to have raped and pillaged would be unthinkable in the wake of the demise of former prime minister and City cheerleader, Gordon Brown. Especially given that Umunna, 35, purports to support small businesses and even sent a volley of tweets to support small businesses in the Streatham area of […]
[…] Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn’t support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the shmuck got right – there was no […]
[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]
[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]
