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REGISTER of MEMBERS' FINANCIAL INTERESTS As at 10
REGISTER OF MEMBERS’ FINANCIAL INTERESTS as at 10 February 2020 _________________ Abbott, Ms Diane (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) 1. Employment and earnings 21 July 2017, received £100 from the Guardian, Guardian News and Media, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 18 July 2019) 2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: RMT Address of donor: Unity House, 39 Charlton Street, London NW1 1JD Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000 Donor status: trade union (Registered 10 January 2020) 2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a) Name of donor: Mahir Kilic Address of donor: private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Use of a high street office for the 2019 General Election Campaign, value £2,000 Date received: 6 November - 12 December 2019 Date accepted: 6 November 2019 Donor status: individual (Registered 10 January 2020) 4. Visits outside the UK Name of donor: (1) The Great Britain China Centre with sponsorship from Prudential Plc and China International Capital Corporation; (2) All-China Youth Federation Address of donor: (1) 15 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London SW1X 8PS; (2) 10 Qianmen Dongdajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) International Flights £1,586.50; (2) accommodation £292.74; transport £215.19; total £507.93 Destination of visit: Beijing, China Dates of visit: 28 July - 2 August 2019 Purpose of visit: to participate in the 2019 Young Leaders Roundtable and to build UK-China understanding and partnership on environment and climate change issues. -
How to Beat the Brexit Party
PAGE 1 HOW TO BEAT THE BREXIT PARTY HOW TO BEAT THE BREXIT PARTY BREXIT PARTY CAMPAIGN CHEAT SHEET 1 2 3 The Brexit Party The Brexit Party Nigel Farage’s are dangerous exists to fight far-right friends and divisive. Nigel for a No Deal across Europe are Farage is trying to Brexit, which will toxic - reminding rebrand, but years spark a recession, people who it is of inflammatory cause medicine that Farage has remarks mean that shortages, cost allied himself many voters will people their with hurts him be motivated to jobs, and make with key voter turnout by pointing austerity look groups. out the Brexit like a warm-up Party could have a act. Most voters decisive role in the don’t want this to next Parliament. happen! 4 5 The party In communities devastated by 40 years has attracted of de-industrialisation and a decade of numerous austerity, it is vital to focus on the fact extreme figures that the Brexit Party have no solutions and people to these problems. As UKIP leader, who promote Farage wanted austerity to go further, extremist for the NHS to be privatised and for messages. These workplace rights to be scrapped. examples of Photo: Facebook outright racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism scare many voters away. Produced by HOPE not hate Ltd, PO Box 61382, London N19 9EQ Tel.: +44 (207) 9521181. www.hopenothate.org.uk @hope.n.hate @hopenothate HOPE not hate @hopenothate PAGE 3 THE BREXIT PARTY ARE DANGEROUS AND DIVISIVE, BUT THEY CAN BE BEATEN Photo: Facebook Photo: by Matthew McGregor, Campaigns Director When the Brexit Party comfortably The threat from this party won the European Elections in is very real. -
The View from the Bridge
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof- reading assistance in this edition of Lobster. The long URL in the footnotes problem There is a problem with long URLs in the footnotes. When a URL runs beyond a single line our computers sometimes read the line-break as being a gap, giving us incomplete URLs which fail. I did try getting round this a while back by using the TinyURL.com program, which produces shortened URLs, but abandoned that after two it created simply didn’t work. The solution – as I am sure you know already – is to copy the footnote URL, create a new tab in your web browser, paste the URL into the destination box and close the gap where the line-break seems to be. However, from now on I will add the TinyURL version of the URL in the footnote to the original long one. Fake news? Fake something... I have commented before on the lack of quality control – editing – which afflicts the site <globalresearch.ca> where I noticed this recently there: ‘But during this US presidential election year, largely due to WikiLeaks, social media and alternative and independent news, citizens of the world have discovered how corrosively evil in its criminality this existing crime cabal is, personified by the Clintons, Obama and their minions in Washington, Wall Street and the corporate media. Over the last couple of months the Clinton- Podesta connection has been directly tied to a global child sex trafficking ring operating from the “life insurance” laptop of Hillary’s closest, 20-year aide-Saudi operative Huma Abedin’s husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. -
Lobster 78 Winter 2019
www.lobster-magazine.co.uk Winter 2019 • The view from the bridge by Robin Ramsay Lobster • South of the border by Nick Must • Peer group pressure by Colin Challen • David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG by Nick Must 78 • Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation by Garrick Alder • England’s forgotten uprising by Anthony Frewin • On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA by David Black • Spandau blood by Andrew Rosthorn • Labour: Antisemitism by John Booth • Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note by Kevin Coogan • Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots by Dr T P Wilkinson Book Reviews • The Mossad Spy: It’s not what you’ve • The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer, done it’s who you are . the by David Blake Knox reviewed by transgender spy, by Olivia Frank Colin Wallace reviewed by Robin Ramsay • AngloArabia Why Gulf Wealth • The Churchill Factor: How One Man Matters to Britain, by David Wearing reviewed by Scott Newton Made History, by Boris Johnson reviewed by John Newsinger • Making America Great, reviews by John Newsinger: • Burying the Lead: The Media and the o Siege: Trump Under Fire, by JFK Assassination, by Mal Hyman Michael Wolff reviewed by Anthony Frewin o The Ordinary Presidency of Donald J. Trump, by Jon Herbert, • Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey, by Kerry Trevor McCrisken and Andrew Bolton reviewed by Kevin Coogan Wroe o Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism: What is To be Done?, by Mike Cole o Trump Aftershock: The President’s Seismic Impact on Culture and Faith in America, by Stephen E Strang www.lobster-magazine.co.uk The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. -
REGISTER of MEMBERS' FINANCIAL INTERESTS As at 30
REGISTER OF MEMBERS’ FINANCIAL INTERESTS as at 30 March 2020 _________________ Abbott, Ms Diane (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) 1. Employment and earnings 21 July 2017, received £100 from the Guardian, Guardian News and Media, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 18 July 2019) 2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: RMT Address of donor: Unity House, 39 Charlton Street, London NW1 1JD Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000 Donor status: trade union (Registered 10 January 2020) 2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a) Name of donor: Mahir Kilic Address of donor: private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Use of a high street office for the 2019 General Election Campaign, value £2,000 Date received: 6 November - 12 December 2019 Date accepted: 6 November 2019 Donor status: individual (Registered 10 January 2020) 4. Visits outside the UK Name of donor: (1) The Great Britain China Centre with sponsorship from Prudential Plc and China International Capital Corporation; (2) All-China Youth Federation Address of donor: (1) 15 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London SW1X 8PS; (2) 10 Qianmen Dongdajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) International Flights £1,586.50; (2) accommodation £292.74; transport £215.19; total £507.93 Destination of visit: Beijing, China Dates of visit: 28 July - 2 August 2019 Purpose of visit: to participate in the 2019 Young Leaders Roundtable and to build UK-China understanding and partnership on environment and climate change issues. -
Dark Money and Democracy: Review of Peter Geoghan’S Democracy for Sale
Dark Money and Democracy: Review of Peter Geoghan’s Democracy for Sale ‘Major changes are never impossible. Who would have thought that a coalition of people, working over two decades could convince a country to leave a major international organisation? But with a lot of perseverance, we managed to make history.’ Michael Elliott, founder Tax Payers Alliance and Vote leave. Political parties have always required money to project themselves into the democratic marketplace. Given their role of defending and advancing the interests of property holders and business, the Conservative Party has never wanted for rich donors and supporters. In its early days, the Liberal Party also could call upon rich business sponsors and, of course, Lloyd George supplemented such income by selling honours to those rich enough to buy them. Labour’s rise was funded by and still survives upon regular donations from UK’s trade unions. ‘Dark money’ is a term used to describe funding of legitimate political activities with money which has been funnelled in anonymously, often through ‘backdoors’ like ‘front’ organisation or offshore tax havens. Peter Geoghan’s superb and alarming book (2020), Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics, Head of Zeus, analyses and assesses the impact of such dodgy finance but offers very much more. This book by a brilliant young investigative journalist, working for the website Open Democracy, also tells, in fascinating detail, the inside story of: the growth of Euro-scepticism to its triumph in 2016 and how the ERG - ‘a party within a party’ finessed the final victory; how the growth of social media gave the anti-EU cause a dangerously powerful tool which helped them succeed; and how the far right in western countries over the past decade has been enabled to advance often into government.