Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] would be that the “unknown subscriber” was the British tax-payer. We think Stewart-Smith was being funded in these ventures by MI5, probably using money from “the secret vote’.) The anti-Liberal pamphlet was distributed in seats where the Liberals were thought likely to do well. (21) Among the themes being promoted by MI5 against the […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] EU in practice are dismal. This has actually swayed voters in various parts of the EU to reject steps for ever greater unity and integration and to vote for a narrow nationalistic set of parties to represent their interests. Economic growth has been limp in comparison with other parts of the globe. More of […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] was the result of the SDP’s formation: they received 25% of the votes cast, most of which came from people who were previously Labour voters. The Conservative vote stayed much as it had been in 1979. There was a ‘Falklands bounce’ for the The Gow memorandum of 12/8/82 can be read at or . […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] he got a fellow Catholic, Steve Webb (Lib Dem), as Pensions Minister during the Coalition. In 2013 Mr Webb boldly announced that the Good Lord himself would vote Lib Dem,9 although as it turned out practically no other bugger would. He was supported in this extravagant claim by the party president at the time, […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] institutional and political interests.’25 The lobby On 29 October, the day that the general election was announced, the Spectator ran a piece by a Stephen Daisley, ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for anti-Semitism’.26 Daisley describes Labour as ‘the largest and most successful anti-Semitic political party in Western Europe’ and Jeremy Corbyn as […]