[PDF file]: […] official Party policy. Wilson’s administration did not, however, accept the Conference 1 Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: Volume 2: 1945-60 (St Albans: Paladin, 1975), p. 559. Ted Heath’s Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this […]
[PDF file]: […] could be extraordinarily kind, agreeable and thoughtful about individuals and people at large, lovable even, with a more inclusive vision of contemporary society than many in the Conservative Party’. Second, his ‘all-consuming self-absorption and self-belief that impelled him to be the most important and visible person . . . . He had no interest […]
[PDF file]: […] Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941 Simon Matthews The writing of history is quite properly treated as a discipline. Many reputable historians, therefore, tend to be conservative, requiring multiple archival sources, an abundance of documentation and testimony from respectable eyewitnesses before reaching their conclusions. This often means that a very high level of […]
[PDF file]: […] before the UK is due to leave the EU. Why has the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European […]
[PDF file]: […] What of his political opinions? These are not that evident from his diaries it has to be said, but back in 1995, when he was already a Conservative MP, he had co-authored with Dominic Hobson a somewhat idiosyncratic ultra-Thatcherite volume, Saturn’s Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue. Some of the book’s […]
[PDF file]: […] people (and possibly themselves). The right has interests not ideas. 3. Many on the right are really much further right than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist (the fascist menace). In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left (the communist menace).3 As well as being a […]
[PDF file]: […] (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at […]
[PDF file]: […] proved to be highly popular. As well as his immensely lucrative commercial interests Plugge also had a political career: in 1935 he was elected 35 Summer 2010 Conservative MP for Chatham. He also moved in the highest of high society circles with all the usual trappings of the uber-rich, including a London residence on […]
[PDF file]: […] and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/Tory then Liberal/ Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially ‘fair’ but […]
[PDF file]: […] there. She never had. But, as a result, reports suggest she has been sentenced to an extra five years.’ With all this damning material by an important Conservative figure so readily The Times 29 August 2017 at or . 2 Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert […]
