[PDF file]: […] and beer in the fridge. Labour’s return to office in 1964 (narrowly) and, more convincingly, after a second election in 1966, saw many continuities with the post-1960 Conservative administrations but also some important differences: ‘Macmillan’s version of social democracy notwithstanding, the Conservative Party and its allies retained both their connections to the City and […]
[PDF file]: […] JFK was killed in Johnson’s home state and was the obvious beneficiary of the event, not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]
[…] Hillsborough was the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ — when hundreds of officers clashed with protesters during the 1984 miners’ strike. At the time it was natural for middle-of-the-road conservative people to believe the police portrayal of those miners as thugs. Evidence has emerged that the South Yorkshire Police may, in the post-battle investigations, have perverted […]
[PDF file]: […] during their sojourn in London in 1907. Finkelstein D anny Finkelstein, whose personal political journey has taken him from the Labour Party via the SDP to the Conservative Party, made the following (fairly obvious) statement in The Times on 12 June: ‘….Britain wants a US level of taxation with European levels of spending and […]
[PDF file]: […] repaid – there is now no external debt in the Labour Party.’ or 7 recovery, and advance reasons why Boris Johnson was able to produce a big Conservative majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his […]
[…] and wider society – could scarcely be higher.’3 (emphasis added) But none of our major political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]
[…] Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the re-election of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Page 38 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 […]
[PDF file]: […] of all things Brexit, until one realizes that their Governors include Michael Gove, Lord Johnson of Marylebone (brother of the PM), Lord Chadlington (President of the Witney Conservative association) and Lord Maude. They are certainly doing their bit for impartiality. As for his book, well . . . it’s all here: a perfectly fair […]
[PDF file]: […] British establishment. First, on 30 March 1979, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) managed to place a car bomb within the precincts of the Houses of Parliament. Conservative MP Airey Neave, a key figure in the rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months […]
[PDF file]: […] American speaker said that his own analysis had confirmed the broad conclusions indicated in the preceding International intervention. Most of our oil price assumptions were probably too conservative, but $12 looked outside the upper limit.’ 76 (emphases added) It is important to note that estimates to which the participants were referring were all in […]
