As a child growing up in the 1980s there were only two sounds that would make my heart ache with a giddy sense of pure joy ; the theme tune of ‘He Man and the Masters of the Universe’, and my mother uttering the words, “You can get a 10p mix.” Coke bottles, flying saucers, […]
Until 1983 the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU was official Labour Party policy. It was Labour who offered the official opposition to our entry into the common market, with the social democrat Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell warning it would be, “The end of a thousand years of history”. And even after it […]
The Labour party was founded specifically to represent the interests of the working man, so it is hardly surprising that those in the DE and C2 social groups are far more likely to vote Labour. However, if you consider the behaviour, culture, desires, fashions and tastes of the British working class there is but one […]
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. V. I. Lenin I was brought up in a solid, socialist household. Both of my parents were Labour Party members and trade union activists, who even flirted with the Militant tendency in the bitter aftermath of the Miners’ strike. We had […]
