[PDF file]: […] 1970s and the conflict it produced with the unions was the first really big bump in the economic road since 1945, and the Labour Party allowed the Conservative Party and its supporting media to produce a false narrative about the decade, which blamed the unions and the party they funded. The true story was […]
[PDF file]: […] Mayor election in which Livingstone is, again, the Labour candidate. We learn that his uncle, also confusingly named Kenneth Livingstone, was a very active member of the Conservative party in Streatham and later joined the National Front. We are also told that Livingstone agreed to father children by two female members of the Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] apparently come before the national interest – and the interests of the armed forces. Also reflecting on Iraq ten years on was erstwhile MI6 officer and now Conservative MP Rory Stewart, who took part in the invasion/occupation. Stewart concluded: 31 Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Iraq war planning wholly irresponsible, say senior UK military figures’, . 32 […]
[PDF file]: […] political honesty and the truth with Oborne working at the Daily Mail, of all papers. My suspicion was that, once New Labour had been replaced by a Conservative government, Oborne would inevitably be put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge a Conservative government by the same […]
[PDF file]: […] countries’. Bryant goes on to make the point that ‘Parliament doesn’t work if you can’t rely on ministers to tell the truth’. (pp 121-123) Of course, the Conservative governments that have been in power since 2010 hardly have a monopoly as far as lying and dishonesty is concerned – a point we shall return […]
[PDF file]: […] him revealing a London-based Soviet spy circle. These came from Czech defector Josef Frolik.2 3 Teacher observed that in February 1979, two weeks after Thatcher’s election as Conservative leader, a House of Lords debate on ‘Subversive and Extremist Elements’, initiated by Lord Chalfont, aired the Frolik allegations.2 4 Josten was a member of the […]
[PDF file]: […] his sums add up, the grim reality of the The radical right in the USA has spotted it. See ‘Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media’ at or . 13 14 or 15 ‘Welcome to stagnation nation: Our Government has no money — and no strategy’, . 16 5 budget, buried […]
[…] than others’. Bryant provides some examples: ‘Meller Designs, which was co-owned by David Meller, who had backed Michael Gove’s bid for leader and donated £60,000 to the Conservative Party, was referred by Gove and won £164 million in Covid contracts’.5 There was Greg Hands who ‘passed on a recommendation . . . which led […]
[PDF file]: […] experience on her part, Mattinson lacks a certain perspective while making many of her otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti- Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most […]
[…] his sums add up, the grim reality of the The radical right in the USA has spotted it. See ‘Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media’ at or . 13 14 or 15 ‘Welcome to stagnation nation: Our Government has no money — and no strategy’, . 16 5 budget, buried […]
