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The view from the bridge
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
[PDF file]: […] coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s Vote campaign for a second referendum, pursuing that against Corbyn’s wishes in the run-up to the 2019 election.11 The author writes: Of course, in the final months […]
Holding Pattern
[PDF file]: […] also explain why David Cameron’s campaigning for ‘Remain’ was so low-key and understated, giving Johnson centre stage to perform his upper-crust electoral slapstick and discourage the ‘Leave’ vote. This idea, however, founders on the rock-solid fact that Messrs Cameron and Johnson couldn’t run a sausage-shop between them and, obviously, MI6 would never be so […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] the floor lies with the EU. Which creates a curious dilemma for me. I think the EU is absurd, a menace in many ways, and I would vote for UK withdrawal – were it not for the fact that the threat posed by the banksters is greater than that posed by the Eurocrats’ delusory […]
The economic crisis
[PDF file]: […] of measures designed to clean up after the financial crisis, those US politicians who received greater contributions from the financial services industry were statistically more likely to vote for legislation that transferred wealth from taxpayers to bankers.’4 All together now: no shit, Sherlock! Bank of England official says: ‘Too big to fail’ produces ‘the […]
Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire
Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams
[PDF file]: […] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]
Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright
[PDF file]: […] again, he seems to have a somewhat rosy view of the past. The Conservative Party did not begin electing its leader until 1965, when MPs got to vote; and 1998, when ordinary party members got a vote – and even now those members have to choose from candidates chosen by the MPs. As for […]