[PDF file]: […] fascinating. In February, Sir Nicholas MacPherson, the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, gave formal written advice to ministers about whether – in the aftermath of an independence vote – Scotland should be allowed to retain the pound as its currency. He argued against, claiming: * Scotland might move to another currency in the longer […]
[…] riot. Eventually, the Supreme Court effectively determined the result of the election by ruling in the Republican candidate’s favour, and halting the ongoing attempts to recount the vote. Twenty-one years later, it nearly happened all over again. Except, in most ways, it was much worse. The Republican Party’s agitations in Florida in 2000 had […]
[PDF file]: […] the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In this […]
[PDF file]: […] enthusiastic crowd are chanting ‘Drop dead, media’ while they wait for the great man to appear. She looks around and spots a new T-shirt: SHE’S A CUNT, VOTE TRUMP. The man wearing it ‘is with his wife and three kids’.1 Support for Trump seems completely unaffected by his boasting of how he has routinely […]
[PDF file]: […] 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. The three big economic messes which the electorate took notice of between 1970 and 2007/8 were caused by Conservative governments; and […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] was one of the considerations which led Murray to suggest, in September 1948, that part of the costs of the unit should be transferred to the secret vote. In addition, the move to the secret vote would enable a more flexible use of money, and For significant detail on the events surrounding the massacre, […]
