DOCSLIB.ORG

How Labour Wins Mapping the Routes to the Next Majority

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
How Labour Wins Mapping the Routes to the Next Majority Fabian Review www.fabians.org.uk Spring 2012 HOW LABOUR WINS Mapping the routes to the next majority The quarterly magazine of the Fabian Society Volume 124 no 1 £4.95 THE FABIAN SUMMER CONFERENCE Featuring a Q&A with Ed Miliband LABOUR'S next majority 30th June, 10am doors open for an 11am start finishing at around 5pm Millbank Media Centre, Ground Floor, Millbank Tower, 21–24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP Tickets for members and concessions are just £10 (£15 for non-members with six months free membership) Come and join the Fabians for our Summer Conference featuring a Question and Answer session with Ed Miliband. Debate Labour’s electoral strategy and put forward your take on some of the ideas we’ve explored in this issue of the Fabian Review. To book your tickets head to www.fabians.org.uk or call 020 7227 4900 EDITORIAL Image: Adrian Teal Age-old lessons Andrew Harrop asks if ongoing public support for pensioner benefits offers the left a way out of its welfare impasse If the polls are to be believed, benefits for pensioners (of which the the poorest get more – which the coali- cutting welfare is very popular. YouGov much-castigated winter fuel payment tion is busy unpicking though its tax reports that fewer than a third of and free bus pass make up just a tiny credit cuts. Labour voters and just 3 per cent of fraction). On top there is a generous A shared system, where every family Conservatives oppose it. This places the means-tested system which has done is a recipient, could open the way for left in a terrible bind, not least because much to reduce pensioner poverty. improved provision for the poorest in the public offers no consistent message Our pension system has strong public a way the public might tolerate. With when it comes to what should be cut. support because it enshrines what in the everyone in receipt it would become People seem to resent money being paid Fabian office we term ‘lifecycle welfare’: possible to introduce automatic earnings to both rich and poor: a large majority contributions ‘from us, to us’ over time, indexation without great controversy, support stripping child benefit from rather than ‘from us, to them’ today. The just as Labour did with pensions. In top-rate tax payers, but people most whole system is sustained by automatic today’s climate of opinion, this is surely want benefit cuts for the unemployed indexation policies, which mean that the only route to preventing the living and lone parents. pensioner living standards rise in line standards of the poor families slipping The public tell pollsters they want with the rest of the population’s. further away from the mainstream. welfare cut because it creates depend- The left needs to draw on this in Is any of this affordable? Well, we ency. But the logic of cuts is a more framing a response to its welfare can agree on design principles, without tightly-targeted system, available to impasse. We need ideas that breathe specifying the price-tag. In tough times ever less numerous and less popular new life into contributory ‘lifecycle’ new welfare entitlements might need groups of ‘outsiders’, with stricter welfare by making an updated offer of to be substitutes not supplements. entitlement rules which in turn create social insurance for when people need However substantial savings on welfare greater disincentives to work and save. it most. This could include support for are possible if there is radical change On the other hand, a more universal the costs of childcare and eldercare or more widely. Big savings can come if we system that removes disincentives and an adequate salary replacement when reduce the number of workless families gives everyone a stake would almost first unemployed. by creating jobs; if we raise low pay to certainly be more expensive. Next we must blur the boundaries scale back in-work welfare; if we tackle Perhaps some of the lessons from between universal and ‘safety net’ wel- our public health crisis so people can old-age welfare can be applied to the fare, just as has been achieved with state work longer and retire later; and if rest of social security. Pensioners are pensions. Labour should develop plans we restructure the housing market to the most popular group of welfare to turn Iain Duncan Smith’s ‘universal reduce the costs of rents. recipients – as George Osborne found credit’ into an entitlement that binds All that is possible, but it will mean out to his political cost when he de- in the vast majority, for example by the left must embrace a radical state livered his recent Budget – and the absorbing child benefit and childcare activism aimed at building a different state pension system now combines tax relief within it. The effect would economy. Without economic reform, a careful blend of means-testing and be to realise Gordon Brown’s original welfare will always just be sticking universalism. Half of all British welfare concept of ‘progressive universalism’ plaster. Little wonder the public say spending goes on non means-tested – where everyone gets something but they hate it. Spring 2012 Fabian Review 1 CHART 1: Unemployment Percentage 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 South West South East East of England East Midlands United Kingdom Scotland Wales North West West Midlands Yorkshire and The Humber London North East CONTENTS CHART 2: Public Sector Job Losses as a % of Total Employment (to 2017) Percentage P3 “LABOUR’S NEXT MAJORITY IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF P8 “THE BRITISH ELECTORATE WILL DECIDE WHEN THEY’RE ALL OF US” GOING3.1 TO2.9 LISTEN2.7 TO WHAT2.5 WE2.3 HAVE2.1 TO SAY”1.9 1.7 1.5 North East Yorkshire and the Humber P11 “EVEN THOUGH MOST PEOPLE THINK THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING A BAD JOB OF MANAGING THE P15 “THE AVERAGE WORKER IN A TORY HELD SEAT IS North West ECONOMY, ONLY ONE IN FIVE THINK EDS MILIBAND AND SOME 15.6 PER CENT BETTER OFF THAN THE AVERAGE BALLS WOULD DO BETTER WORKER IN A LABOUR HELD SEAT” West Midlands What’s the way for Labour to return to power? The Fabian Review London investigates the possible winning coalitions and what they mean South West for Labour politics LaBoUR’s NEXT maJoRITY 11 Which voters and how to 21 Allow organisers to organise East Midlands 3 Labour’s next majority win them Caroline Badley Marcus A. Roberts Tom Mludzinski South East 4 Achieving a progressive majority 14 Labour’s men have been left BOOKS through a progressive alliance behind 22 The liminal left East of England Neal Lawson Kirsty McNeill Jonathan Rutherford 5 Labour’s missing fi ve million 15 The Fabian Essay: The Tory Paul Hunter ‘feelgood factor’ THE FABIAN SOCIETY 6 The many, not the few Duncan Weldon 23 The Spring in review Tessa Jowell 18 The core vote, swing vote 23 Noticeboard 8 The Fabian Interview: fallacy 23 Listings Spring 2012 Miliband’s Mandelson Hopi Sen CHART 243: HouseholdsFabian Quiz on Low to Modest Incomes Mary Riddell Editor: Ed Wallis General Secretary: Andrew HarropPercentageRESEARCH Deputy General Secretary: Senior Researcher: Natan Doron Printed by: DG3 Marcus Roberts Research Assistant: Andrea Giesecke London E14 9TE 40 35 30 Research25 Intern:20 Linea Heinonen15 10 PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS Designed by: Soapbox Head of Partnerships and Events: MEMBERSHIP www.soapbox.co.uk Olly Parker Membership Officer: Giles Wright FABIAN REVIEW Senior Programme Manager, Local Societies Officer: Deborah Stoate North East Fabian Review is the quarterly ISSN 1356 1812 Partnerships and Events: journal of the Fabian Society. Like [email protected] Katharina Klebba FINANCE AND OPERATIONS all publications of the Fabian Society, Programme Manager, Partnerships Head of Finance and Operations: Yorkshire and the Humber it represents not the collective view FABIAN SOCIETY and Events: James Hallwood Phil Mutero of the Society, but only the views of the 11 Dartmouth Street individual writers. The responsibility London SW1H 9BN EDITORIAL FaBIaN WomEN’s NETWoRK East Midlands of the Society is limited to approving Telephone 020 7227 4900 Head of Editorial: Ed Wallis Seema Malhotra its publications as worthy of Fax 020 7976 7153 Media and Communications Manager: [email protected] consideration within the Labour [email protected] Richard Speight Wales movement. www.fabians.org.uk 2 Fabian Review Spring 2012 West Midlands North West South West UK Scotland East of England South East London LABOUR’S NEXT MAJORITY LABOUR'S next majority This issue of the Fabian Review in- voters. The project will consider voter Marcus A. Roberts troduces a major new Fabian project responses and model potential sup- is Deputy General – Labour’s Next Majority – which will port in terms of demographic groups, Secretary of the explore three broad propositions on socio-economic groups and geographic Fabian Society how an election can be won: concentrations of voters. We’ll consider how all of this plays out in terms of • the Progressive Majority theory that the party’s policy proposals and public One day Labour will win again. When emphasises the importance of Liberal messaging, and we’ll look at what this that happens, it will be because the Democrat, Green, Nationalist and means in terms of organising choices party has changed from 2010. When other voters in winning, outlined on – like considering the differing impact Labour wins again it will be because page four by Neal Lawson, on turnout of leaflets, canvassing and it has a strategy that doesn’t just deal • the ‘Five Million Votes’ argument voter registration. with the things we feel comfortable that only one million of Labour’s But electoral strategies can’t just be talking about – ‘fairness’, international lost five million votes since 1997 about parroting focus groups – after development, the NHS – but the things went to the Tories, as Paul Hunter all the way you win an election has a that Labour has traditionally strug- discusses on page five, huge impact on the way you govern.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Public Bills Before Parliament This Session
    Legislation – General Notes In the list of Bills which follows, the type of Bill is shown at the left-hand margin next to the title by the following codes: G Government Bills C Consolidation Bills B Private Members' Bills (Presentation bill under SO No 57 prioritised by the ballot procedure SO No 14 (6)). The number after refers to position in ballot P Private Members' Bills (Presentation bill under SO No 57) T Private Members' Bills (Presentation bill under the Ten Minute Rule, SO No 23) L Private Members' Bills starting in the House of Lords (Presentation bill under HL SO No 41 (3)) [HL] Bill starting in the House of Lords HYBRID Public Bill which affects private interests of particular persons or corporate bodies as distinct from the private interests of all persons or bodies Abbreviations: 1R First reading: date of presentation (formal, no debate) 2R Second reading (debate on the principle(s) of the Bill) MR Money resolution (normally taken after 2R only shown in the list if taken at another time) WM Ways and Means resolution GM Guillotine Motion SRC Second Reading Committee (2R taken in Committee: formal 2R in whole House next day unless otherwise stated) SGC/WGC Scottish or Welsh Grand Committee consideration of principles (equates with SRC) PBC Public Bill Committee in the House of Commons Comm Committee of the Whole House Comm** House of Lords Grand Committee, taken in a committee room JCCB Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills JC TLRB Joint Committee on Tax Law Re-write Bills (the date indicates the date on which the Bill was committed to the Joint Committee).
    [Show full text]
  • The Socialist Issue 867
    The Socialist issue 867 Socialist Party | Print The Labour Party, Militant and 'infiltration' In fury at the popularity of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership campaign, right wing politicians and media alike have been referring to 'infiltration' of the Labour Party by Militant supporters. Militant was the predecessor of the Socialist Party - whose supporters in the past were members of the Labour Party. This has not been the case for decades. In the 1980s and early 1990s some of our members were witch-hunted out of the Labour Party and Militant became a banned organisation. Labour's structures were changed to try to prevent the influence of socialist ideas. Militant supporters led the heroic struggle of Liverpool City Council, which won millions of pounds of funding back from the Thatcher government and built 5,000 homes, six nursery schools and created more than 6,000 jobs. It was Militant supporters who organised the anti-poll tax movement, through the mass non-payment of 18 million people, which defeated that tax and brought down Thatcher. In a whole number of other campaigns - from forcing the shutdown of the headquarters of the racist British National Party, to leading a strike of 250,000 school students which defeated the threat to remove benefits from 16 and 17 year olds - Militant worked both within and beyond the structures of the Labour Party to organise fighting working class campaigns. These re-printed articles look back at some aspects of this history. What was the Labour Party and how did it change? Extracts from a Socialist Party pamphlet written in 2001 Historically the Labour Party was a 'capitalist-workers' party'.
    [Show full text]
  • What Happens After an Indecisive Election Result?
    BRIEFING PAPER Number 07163, 9 June 2017 What happens after an By Lucinda Maer indecisive election result? Gail Bartlett Inside: 1. Forming a government after a hung parliament 2. “Caretaker” administrations 3. The meeting of a new Parliament 4. The Queen’s Speech 5. An investiture vote? www.parliament.uk/commons-library | intranet.parliament.uk/commons-library | [email protected] | @commonslibrary Number 07163, 9 June 2017 2 Contents Summary 3 1. Forming a government after a hung parliament 5 1.1 What kind of government can form? 5 1.2 Historical precedents 6 1.3 When should an incumbent Prime Minister resign? 7 1.4 How long does government formation take? 9 1.5 Internal party consultation 9 1.6 Role of the House of Commons 10 1.7 Effects of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 10 2. “Caretaker” administrations 12 2.1 What is a “caretaker” administration? 12 2.2 The nature of the restrictions on government action 12 2.3 When do the restrictions end? 13 3. The meeting of a new Parliament 15 3.1 When does a Parliament return? 15 4. The Queen’s Speech 17 4.1 When does the Queen’s Speech take place? 17 4.2 The debate on the Address 17 5. An investiture vote? 19 Cover page image copyright UK Parliament 3 What happens after an indecisive election result? Summary Following the 2017 general election, held on 8 June 2017, the Conservative Party was returned as the largest party, but did not have an overall majority in the House of Commons.
    [Show full text]
  • The Lobby in Transition: What the 2009 Mps’ Expenses Scandal Revealed About the Changing Relationship Between Politicians and the Westminster Lobby?
    City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Gaber, I. (2013). The Lobby in transition: what the 2009 MPs’ expenses scandal revealed about the changing relationship between politicians and the Westminster Lobby?. Media History, 19(1), pp. 45-58. doi: 10.1080/13688804.2012.752962 This is the published version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/18258/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2012.752962 Copyright: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. Reuse: Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/ [email protected] Media History ISSN: 1368-8804 (Print) 1469-9729 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cmeh20 THE LOBBY IN TRANSITION Ivor Gaber To cite this article: Ivor Gaber (2013) THE LOBBY IN TRANSITION, Media History, 19:1, 45-58, DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2012.752962 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2012.752962 © 2013 Taylor & Francis Published online: 11 Jan 2013.
    [Show full text]
  • Political Realignment of British Jews: Testing Competing Explanations
    The University of Manchester Research Political realignment of British Jews: Testing competing explanations DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102063 Document Version Accepted author manuscript Link to publication record in Manchester Research Explorer Citation for published version (APA): Barclay, A., Sobolewska, M., & Ford, R. (2019). Political realignment of British Jews: Testing competing explanations. Electoral Studies, 61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102063 Published in: Electoral Studies Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on Manchester Research Explorer is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Proof version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the Research Explorer are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Takedown policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please refer to the University of Manchester’s Takedown Procedures [http://man.ac.uk/04Y6Bo] or contact [email protected] providing relevant details, so we can investigate your claim. Download date:09. Oct. 2021 Political Realignment of British Jews: Testing Competing Explanations. Andrew Barclay School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester Prof. Maria Sobolewska School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester Prof. Robert Ford School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester Manuscript accepted for publication by Electoral Studies How to cite: Barclay, Andrew. Sobolewska, Maria. & Ford, Robert (2019) “Political Realignment of British Jews: Testing Competing Explanations” Electoral Studies, 61 1 Political realignment of British Jews: testing competing explanations.
    [Show full text]
  • New Peers Created Have Fallen from 244 Under David Cameron’S Six Years As Prime Minister to Only 37 to Date Under Theresa May
    \ For more information on DeHavilland and how we can help with political monitoring, custom research and consultancy, contact: +44 (0)20 3033 3870 [email protected] Information Services Ltd 2018 0 www.dehavilland.co.uk INTRODUCTION & ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................. 2 CONSERVATIVES ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Diana Barran MBE .......................................................................................................................................................... 4 The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Garnier QC ........................................................................................................................... 5 The Rt. Hon. Sir Alan Haselhurst.................................................................................................................................. 7 The Rt. Hon. Peter Lilley ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Catherine Meyer CBE ................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Pickles ........................................................................................................................................ 11 The Rt. Hon. Sir John
    [Show full text]
  • Torin Douglas Media Masters - November 13, 2014 Listen to the Podcast Online, Visit
    Torin Douglas Media Masters - November 13, 2014 Listen to the podcast online, visit www.mediafocus.org.uk Welcome to Media Masters, a series of one-to-one interviews with people at the top of the media game. Today I’m joined by Torin Douglas. Torin started his career as a trainee journalist at DC Thomson before joining Campaign magazine as a media writer. After a brief stint at the IBA – the then commercial broadcast regulator – he returned to journalism, editing Marketing Week and then Creative Review. Over the next decade he reported on the media industry for The Times, The Economist and The Independent and presented his own media show on LBC. He then joined the BBC. Their media correspondent for 24 years until his retirement last year, he covered the work of six director generals, the birth of BskyB and the growth of the Murdoch empire, the ongoing debate over press and privacy, the ITV licence auction – and subsequent mergers – and the matter of Jimmy Savile. Having spent a whopping 40 years covering the press, he is now a visiting professor at the University of Bedfordshire, a regular media columnist and director of the Chiswick Book Festival. And, I’m pleased to say, was recently awarded an MBE. Torin, congratulations! Thank you very much! And thank you for joining us. Thank you. Well, where on earth do we start with that? Did you always want to be a journalist? I genuinely did. From the age of about eight I wanted to be a journalist, and I think it was probably that board game, Scoop, which some people might remember, where you had a great big telephone and you turned it, and you got stories to put on the page, and little ads.
    [Show full text]
  • Research Note: Former Special Advisers in Cabinet, 1979-2013
    Research Note: Former Special Advisers in Cabinet, 1979-2013 Executive Summary Sixteen special advisers have gone on to become Cabinet Ministers. This means that of the 492 special advisers listed in the Constitution Unit database in the period 1979-2010, only 3% entered Cabinet. Seven Conservative party Cabinet members were formerly special advisers. o Four Conservative special advisers went on to become Cabinet Ministers in the 1979-1997 period of Conservative governments. o Three former Conservative special advisers currently sit in the Coalition Cabinet: David Cameron, George Osborne and Jonathan Hill. Eight Labour Cabinet members between 1997-2010 were former special advisers. o Five of the eight former special advisers brought into the Labour Cabinet between 1997-2010 had been special advisers to Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. o Jack Straw entered Cabinet in 1997 having been a special adviser before 1979. One Liberal Democrat Cabinet member, Vince Cable, was previously a special adviser to a Labour minister. The Coalition Cabinet of January 2013 currently has four members who were once special advisers. o Also attending Cabinet meetings is another former special adviser: Oliver Letwin as Minister of State for Policy. There are traditionally 21 or 22 Ministers who sit in Cabinet. Unsurprisingly, the number and proportion of Cabinet Ministers who were previously special advisers generally increases the longer governments go on. The number of Cabinet Ministers who were formerly special advisers was greatest at the end of the Labour administration (1997-2010) when seven of the Cabinet Ministers were former special advisers. The proportion of Cabinet made up of former special advisers was greatest in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet when almost one-third (30.5%) of the Cabinet were former special advisers.
    [Show full text]
  • Tory Modernisation 2.0 Tory Modernisation
    Edited by Ryan Shorthouse and Guy Stagg Guy and Shorthouse Ryan by Edited TORY MODERNISATION 2.0 MODERNISATION TORY edited by Ryan Shorthouse and Guy Stagg TORY MODERNISATION 2.0 THE FUTURE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY TORY MODERNISATION 2.0 The future of the Conservative Party Edited by Ryan Shorthouse and Guy Stagg The moral right of the authors has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a re- trieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. Bright Blue is an independent, not-for-profit organisation which cam- paigns for the Conservative Party to implement liberal and progressive policies that draw on Conservative traditions of community, entre- preneurialism, responsibility, liberty and fairness. First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Bright Blue Campaign www.brightblue.org.uk ISBN: 978-1-911128-00-7 Copyright © Bright Blue Campaign, 2013 Printed and bound by DG3 Designed by Soapbox, www.soapbox.co.uk Contents Acknowledgements 1 Foreword 2 Rt Hon Francis Maude MP Introduction 5 Ryan Shorthouse and Guy Stagg 1 Last chance saloon 12 The history and future of Tory modernisation Matthew d’Ancona 2 Beyond bare-earth Conservatism 25 The future of the British economy Rt Hon David Willetts MP 3 What’s wrong with the Tory party? 36 And why hasn’t
    [Show full text]
  • How to Lead the Labour Party – It’S Not Only About Winning Office, but About Defining the Political Spectrum and Reshaping British Society
    blogs.lse.ac.uk http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/2010/09/27/how-to-lead-the-labour-party-%e2%80%93- it%e2%80%99s-not-only-about-winning-office-but-about-defining-the-political-spectrum-and- reshaping-british-society/ How to lead the Labour party – it’s not only about winning office, but about defining the political spectrum and reshaping British society With Labour receiving just 29 per cent of the vote in the 2010 general election, Ed Miliband has a mountain to climb as the party’s new leader. Robin Archer argues that a purely centrist approach to his new job would be self-defeating and that he has an unusual opportunity to revive British social democracy. Debates about where Ed Miliband will lead Labour next are certain to dominate the rest of this year’s Labour conference and indeed his whole first year in office. What does the leadership of Labour require? What should his leadership strategy be? To answer, we need to examine some fundamentals. We know from opinion surveys that when UK voters’ preferences are plotted on a left-right spectrum the resulting graph typically takes the form of a bell curve. The largest numbers of voters cluster around the median voter (the person in the centre of the left/right distribution), and decreasing numbers hold positions as we move further to the left or the right. In plurality electoral systems dominated by two main parties (and even if the Alternative Vote is introduced, Britain will still fall into this category) two pure strategies are available.
    [Show full text]
  • Andy Higgins, BA
    Andy Higgins, B.A. (Hons), M.A. (Hons) Music, Politics and Liquid Modernity How Rock-Stars became politicians and why Politicians became Rock-Stars Thesis submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations The Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion University of Lancaster September 2010 Declaration I certify that this thesis is my own work and has not been submitted in substantially the same form for the award of a higher degree elsewhere 1 ProQuest Number: 11003507 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 11003507 Published by ProQuest LLC(2018). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 Abstract As popular music eclipsed Hollywood as the most powerful mode of seduction of Western youth, rock-stars erupted through the counter-culture as potent political figures. Following its sensational arrival, the politics of popular musical culture has however moved from the shared experience of protest movements and picket lines and to an individualised and celebrified consumerist experience. As a consequence what emerged, as a controversial and subversive phenomenon, has been de-fanged and transformed into a mechanism of establishment support.
    [Show full text]
  • Liberals in Coalition
    For the study of Liberal, SDP and Issue 72 / Autumn 2011 / £10.00 Liberal Democrat history Journal of LiberalHI ST O R Y Liberals in coalition Vernon Bogdanor Riding the tiger The Liberal experience of coalition government Ian Cawood A ‘distinction without a difference’? Liberal Unionists and Conservatives Kenneth O. Morgan Liberals in coalition, 1916–1922 David Dutton Liberalism and the National Government, 1931–1940 Matt Cole ‘Be careful what you wish for’ Lessons of the Lib–Lab Pact Liberal Democrat History Group 2 Journal of Liberal History 72 Autumn 2011 new book from tHe History Group for details, see back page Journal of Liberal History issue 72: Autumn 2011 The Journal of Liberal History is published quarterly by the Liberal Democrat History Group. ISSN 1479-9642 Riding the tiger: the Liberal experience of 4 Editor: Duncan Brack coalition government Deputy Editor: Tom Kiehl Assistant Editor: Siobhan Vitelli Vernon Bogdanor introduces this special issue of the Journal Biographies Editor: Robert Ingham Reviews Editor: Dr Eugenio Biagini Coalition before 1886 10 Contributing Editors: Graham Lippiatt, Tony Little, York Membery Whigs, Peelites and Liberals: Angus Hawkins examines coalitions before 1886 Patrons A ‘distinction without a difference’? 14 Dr Eugenio Biagini; Professor Michael Freeden; Ian Cawood analyses how the Liberal Unionists maintained a distinctive Professor John Vincent identity from their Conservative allies, until coalition in 1895 Editorial Board The coalition of 1915–1916 26 Dr Malcolm Baines; Dr Roy Douglas; Dr Barry Doyle; Prelude to disaster: Ian Packer examines the Asquith coalition of 1915–16, Dr David Dutton; Prof. David Gowland; Prof. Richard which brought to an end the last solely Liberal government Grayson; Dr Michael Hart; Peter Hellyer; Dr J.
    [Show full text]