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Blowback: a Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge by Miles Taylor
[PDF file]: […] to defeat this obviously totally unfit crook and conman. Once Trump had been successfully elected (although it is always important to remember that Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes), there were many in the party leadership and apparatus who hoped that he could be persuaded to govern as a conventional […]
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 […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] take the pound out of the European exchange rate mechanism.44 After that recession Blair and Brown had no need to embrace Thatcherism: the electorate were going to vote for them whatever they proposed. or 41 or 42 The most recent data I could see was from June 2020 See or . 43 44 See […]
Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire
Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America
[PDF file]: […] In the US voting was taking place in the presidential elections at precisely that moment and, although the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket breezed home with 57% of the popular vote, the US had insisted on an immediate ceasefire. It’s never been really clear why the UK and France didn’t invade at the same time that their […]
Climbing the Bookshelves
[…] 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 […]
View from
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The penultimate paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]
The Christian Right Revisited
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
[PDF file]: […] bang up to date. Many of us older hands in politics may struggle to keep up to speed with the latest techniques employed to convince people to vote; but many voters are, in my opinion, being persuaded to vote against their own best interests. The use of the internet to penetrate and cater for […]