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In a private dinner party for The City’s financial elite, John Brown gives a speech about the election.
This election is very important, if Labor win the election they will continue to regulate and hurt the markets, first it will factories owners but then it will be us. Many these university educated men- and they are all educated, none of them are working class, where but a few good choices from being in this very room with us. They know it! And for that they hate us, they absolutely despise us, because we were smart enough make our fortunes while they have toiled for nothing.
That is root of their hatred, if we let them win these elections they will make us “pay our fair share” Bollocks! We, no more than one percent of the country, provide 60 percent of revenue. If they want to give the poor raise at least make him pay his fair share of taxes!
Their Nanny state? Utter madness, they want to reward the lazy and stupid while punishing the successful, intelligent and diligent. We must not let them do this and damn Britain to mediocrity if not irrelevance.
Their Industrial interventions? A plague upon our industry, a very heavy consumer of loans if we let them regulate out businesses and damn Britain to mediocrity if not irrelevance.
Their Foreign Policy? Just as bad! Communism sweeps the planet devouring perfectly good markets for British goods threatening our very own way of life. And what does Labor do about this? They try to contain it, instead of liberating these people and slaying the communist Beast, they let it entrench itself! Worse still they do nothing about the CPGB- our own little cabal of traitors.
What can we do to stop this? We use our greatest strength- Money. We donate large amounts of campaign funds to the Tories so that they can get a decisive advertisement advantage over Labor. We came write op-eds in newspapers in order to educate the common voter on basic economics. We need to win this election, so we will win this election.
In a private dinner party for The City’s financial elite, John Brown gives a speech about the election.
This election is very important, if Labor win the election they will continue to regulate and hurt the markets, first it will factories owners but then it will be us. Many these university educated men- and they are all educated, none of them are working class, where but a few good choices from being in this very room with us. They know it! And for that they hate us, they absolutely despise us, because we were smart enough make our fortunes while they have toiled for nothing.
That is root of their hatred, if we let them win these elections they will make us “pay our fair share” Bollocks! We, no more than one percent of the country, provide 60 percent of revenue. If they want to give the poor raise at least make him pay his fair share of taxes!
Their Nanny state? Utter madness, they want to reward the lazy and stupid while punishing the successful, intelligent and diligent. We must not let them do this and damn Britain to mediocrity if not irrelevance.
Their Industrial interventions? A plague upon our industry, a very heavy consumer of loans if we let them regulate out businesses and damn Britain to mediocrity if not irrelevance.
Their Foreign Policy? Just as bad! Communism sweeps the planet devouring perfectly good markets for British goods threatening our very own way of life. And what does Labor do about this? They try to contain it, instead of liberating these people and slaying the communist Beast, they let it entrench itself! Worse still they do nothing about the CPGB- our own little cabal of traitors.
What can we do to stop this? We use our greatest strength- Money. We donate large amounts of campaign funds to the Tories so that they can get a decisive advertisement advantage over Labor. We came write op-eds in newspapers in order to educate the common voter on basic economics. We need to win this election, so we will win this election.
When asked for a comment over the Conservative Party's controversial poster, which had prompted the press nickname of "Atlas Shrugged"...
It appears there is a concerted effort by the Conservative Party to engender controversy over the financial sector. This is in keeping with the other thrilling allegations raised by the Opposition, such as that Labour will raise the wages of miners or blacken the skies. Now, I naturally defer to my Rt Hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but I must say that this is grasping even by the dismal standards of an election campaign. London is a centre of international finance. The financial sector has been in extremely good health throughout this Government's tenure, and nothing has been done to undermine its competitive dominance. The Member for the City of London appears to suggest that Britain's financiers are being drained dry. The reality is that the upper rate of taxation is very much in line with other states in the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, and a good deal less than it might be. The fact that financial services remain Britain's largest export, as it were, is a clear indication that the well-being of these institutions is not at risk. In summary, the economists, consultants and accountants have all voted with their feet to remain in this country. Britain is a good place for business, and will remain so under the safe hands of a Labour administration. All we would do is ensure that state revenue was used for the improvement of the plight of all the British people - something which appears abhorrent to the Opposition.
It appears there is a concerted effort by the Conservative Party to engender controversy over the financial sector. This is in keeping with the other thrilling allegations raised by the Opposition, such as that Labour will raise the wages of miners or blacken the skies. Now, I naturally defer to my Rt Hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but I must say that this is grasping even by the dismal standards of an election campaign. London is a centre of international finance. The financial sector has been in extremely good health throughout this Government's tenure, and nothing has been done to undermine its competitive dominance. The Member for the City of London appears to suggest that Britain's financiers are being drained dry. The reality is that the upper rate of taxation is very much in line with other states in the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, and a good deal less than it might be. The fact that financial services remain Britain's largest export, as it were, is a clear indication that the well-being of these institutions is not at risk. In summary, the economists, consultants and accountants have all voted with their feet to remain in this country. Britain is a good place for business, and will remain so under the safe hands of a Labour administration. All we would do is ensure that state revenue was used for the improvement of the plight of all the British people - something which appears abhorrent to the Opposition.
Rt. Hon. Sylvia Leighton PC MP
Secretary of State for Defence
Member for Sutton and Cheam
Secretary of State for Defence
Member for Sutton and Cheam
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"Did you hear that, Ted?"
"Hear what?"
"I think I heard someone talking to Parliament"
"That'd be odd. Parliament has been dissolved, after all."
"Hear what?"
"I think I heard someone talking to Parliament"
"That'd be odd. Parliament has been dissolved, after all."
Name: Alistair Monaghan
Born: July 7th, 1907
Occupation: Politician
Constituency: Glasgow North West
Background:
Growing up in the Glasgow slums, Alistair had to work in a factory that produced machine parts from a young age to help support his family, as his father returned from the trenches in Flanders partially paralyzed and unable to work himself. Almost as soon as he started working, he became involved in the labor movement, and accordingly the youth wing of the Labour Party, forming what would be a lifelong attachment both to the party and to rigorously democratic socialism. He was able to attend the University of Edinburgh by scraping together what money he could, and received his formal political education there, majoring in political science. He married his college sweetheart, Alice Walton, in 1929 and returned to Glasgow to continue his work in the middle eschelons of the Scottish Labour Party's staff. His son Timothy was born in 1932, and his daughters Cordelia and Saoirse in 1936 and 1939, respectively.
Despite becoming one of the most important organizers in the Glasgow labor movement and Labour Party by 1939, he refused to consider actually making a run for Parliament himself, resolved that his "place was with the working man and my hometown, not in Westminster." When his son Timothy, away in London for boarding school, was killed in the blitz, his commitment to pacifism only increased, and was determined to do what he could to prevent another conflict like the Second World War from ever breaking out. To that end, he pulled strings to run as Labour's candidate for Glasgow North West in 1945, and was elected in the ensuing Labour landslide.
Working closely with men such as Nye Bevan in drafting the National Health Service and related legislation, Monaghan established himself as an MP of some repute, though he generally kept a low profile throughout much of the Atlee ministry. He began to hit his stride after Labour moved to opposition and shifted significantly to the right, a move he despised. Monaghan supported Bennett heavily during his 1954 run, but quickly became disillusioned as he continued the party's rightward shift, even pursuing an aggressive (Imperial, he fumed) defense policy towards Spain. While no Soviet apologist, Monaghan feels that Labour has strayed too far from its socialist, pacifist roots, and plans to hold Bennett to account during his ministry should he be returned to office.
Bennett Ministry
Leighton Ministry
Monaghan I, 1966-?
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Campaign message in constituencies in which Labour did not candidate as a consequence of the pact
"In many constituencies, there is only one alternative to the Liberal and Conservative Party. This because Labour did not only betray the people in 1945, but Dr. Bennet also betrayed the electorate with his imperialism, and now capitalistic Scarsdalian Toryism in the recent pact. The alternative to the Yellow or Blue Tories is the CPBG - SAfB, the party that defends the Socialist and Pacifist values of the Labour Movement."
Campaign message in Scotland and Wales
"For years, Westminster has been treating Scotland and Wales as colonial dependencies. English dominance and refusal to listen to local interests has lead to lower wages and increasing domination by American businessmen. Instead of a weak class-collaborating "local government", which would not respect the interests of the people and their will democratically, the candidates of the CPBG - SAfB are in favour of real devolution for both Scotland and Wales as soon as possible. The capitalists of London should not dictate the fate the British people!"
"In many constituencies, there is only one alternative to the Liberal and Conservative Party. This because Labour did not only betray the people in 1945, but Dr. Bennet also betrayed the electorate with his imperialism, and now capitalistic Scarsdalian Toryism in the recent pact. The alternative to the Yellow or Blue Tories is the CPBG - SAfB, the party that defends the Socialist and Pacifist values of the Labour Movement."
Campaign message in Scotland and Wales
"For years, Westminster has been treating Scotland and Wales as colonial dependencies. English dominance and refusal to listen to local interests has lead to lower wages and increasing domination by American businessmen. Instead of a weak class-collaborating "local government", which would not respect the interests of the people and their will democratically, the candidates of the CPBG - SAfB are in favour of real devolution for both Scotland and Wales as soon as possible. The capitalists of London should not dictate the fate the British people!"
In the midst of a constituency tour of St. George's Hospital, Sylvia Leighton was treated to a press-pack...
Now, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Jacobs, has accused you of being a Red Tory. In your frequent exchanges with Mr Connor, the General-Secretary of the Communist Party, you are likewise accused of 'Toryist' tendencies. Do you belong to the wrong party, Ms Leighton?
Now, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Jacobs, has accused you of being a Red Tory. In your frequent exchanges with Mr Connor, the General-Secretary of the Communist Party, you are likewise accused of 'Toryist' tendencies. Do you belong to the wrong party, Ms Leighton?
"I am bemused by Mr Jacobs' remarks. I am deeply committed to democratic socialism, common ownership and social equality. I would hardly describe these as Conservative principles, although given the utter disarray of the Conservative Party machine and the opacity of its new leadership, who can say for certain what the Tories stand for these days? I assume that Mr Jacobs meant to suggest that my strong stance on international affairs marked me as a Tory. Yet I was urging such a stance in Opposition even as Mr Eden's Conservative government was slashing the fleets at Faslane and Port Stanley. Perhaps we should refer to pro-defence Tories as Blue Labourites?"
"If Ms. Leighton cannot understand a simple offhand metaphor illustrating how far to the right she is compared to the rest of her party, then it is herself that she is embarrassing, not me. I believe she intends to hound me out of the Leadership, and I assure the press that this would not be the first time she hounded out a Party Leader.
I would also add that Ms. Leighton's incredibly thin skin - seeing as there is no comment too petty for her to overreact to - and inability to prevent any discussion from revolving around herself is what has made her one of the most grating and irritating politicians in Britain today - she so lacking in tact and political spirit that her first instinct upon hearing that I supported the government's decision to resume the blockade that her first instinct was to attack my phrasing. She only seems to have one political instinct, attack, and nothing else.
But I am glad she has brought up one thing. She mentioned Eden 'slashing fleets', as if the 52 ships removed from service by the Tories will ever match the 200 that Attlee intended to scrap in the preceding budget. She has absolutely no high ground, as someone who stood for Labour in the very next election, to ever deride the Conservatives for these cuts when the Party she wished to see in power wanted to cut four times as many ships. Absolutely none. She knows this, and for all her erudition that she wishes to hide this truth behind, she cannot ever truly deny the fact that her entire career is based behind an absolute hypocrisy in her being. Her excuses for the proposed Labour cuts have been absolutely pathetic, claiming that Labour wanted to restructure the Navy in a way beyond Conservative comprehension or some such nonsense. She is wrong and she knows it. As I am sure she is about to recite some incredibly long essay avoiding the issue, or explaining why it is fine for Labour to cut 200 but an act of evil for the Tories to cut 52, I have distributed copies of the budget to the Journalists present here today.
Leighton has willfully mislead the public on the matter constantly and consistently, despite corrections from my colleagues, and the only conclusion one might draw from that is that she is a knowing liar by omission."
I would also add that Ms. Leighton's incredibly thin skin - seeing as there is no comment too petty for her to overreact to - and inability to prevent any discussion from revolving around herself is what has made her one of the most grating and irritating politicians in Britain today - she so lacking in tact and political spirit that her first instinct upon hearing that I supported the government's decision to resume the blockade that her first instinct was to attack my phrasing. She only seems to have one political instinct, attack, and nothing else.
But I am glad she has brought up one thing. She mentioned Eden 'slashing fleets', as if the 52 ships removed from service by the Tories will ever match the 200 that Attlee intended to scrap in the preceding budget. She has absolutely no high ground, as someone who stood for Labour in the very next election, to ever deride the Conservatives for these cuts when the Party she wished to see in power wanted to cut four times as many ships. Absolutely none. She knows this, and for all her erudition that she wishes to hide this truth behind, she cannot ever truly deny the fact that her entire career is based behind an absolute hypocrisy in her being. Her excuses for the proposed Labour cuts have been absolutely pathetic, claiming that Labour wanted to restructure the Navy in a way beyond Conservative comprehension or some such nonsense. She is wrong and she knows it. As I am sure she is about to recite some incredibly long essay avoiding the issue, or explaining why it is fine for Labour to cut 200 but an act of evil for the Tories to cut 52, I have distributed copies of the budget to the Journalists present here today.
Leighton has willfully mislead the public on the matter constantly and consistently, despite corrections from my colleagues, and the only conclusion one might draw from that is that she is a knowing liar by omission."
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As the press get hold of what promises to be a juicy row between a government minister and the Leader of the Opposition, Sylvia Leighton is hounded for a response...
Mr Jacobs accuses me of being too aggressive. I should think that as Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Defence, a certain degree of forcefulness is a prerequisite. Nonetheless, he may rest assured that I do not intend to come for him during the night with a dagger in hand. I fear his party, however, may not be so merciful.
Of course, aggression was the least charge lodged against me by the Leader of the Opposition. Apparently, I am thin-skinned and a hypocrite, as well. Now, Mr Jacobs referred to me by name in public correspondence and made a baseless assertion regarding my political principles. I was then prompted to comment on this remark. Therefore, I hardly agree with his insinuation that it was 'thin-skinned' of me to do so. If I was moved to make such an assertion myself, I might suggest that a man who continues to bear a personal grudge over a parliamentary exchange from over a year ago, and who explosively responds to any questioning of his character, may by temperament be unsuited to the highest office.
As for the charge of hypocrisy, this is an old canard. It appears that the Tories are both literally and proverbially moored in the past. Here Mr Jacobs mentions Mr Attlee's government, and here I must state - as I have previously done - that I was neither a minister within his administration nor even a Member of Parliament at the time. As such, I bear about as much responsibility for its defence policy as I do for the Black Death. Mr Jacobs goes further than most in his attempted smear by suggesting that I somehow bear vicarious culpability merely for being a member of the Labour Party. Does he therefore carry the burden of the Force Britannia Club, or Mr Cochrane's bigotry? I know my stance on national security, and he knows it as well. A cursory glance at the parliamentary record will reveal that it has been consistent and robust.
It is interesting to note that both Mr Jacobs and Mr Connor's Communists have resorted to dredging up history. Both are fixated on the election of 1945 and Mr Attlee's administration of ten years ago. They search the past for ammunition because they are given none in the present. They cannot deny the achievements of the Prime Minister and the Labour Government. Why should the British people entrust the Conservative Party with the government when the Tories cannot even make the case for themselves?
Of course, aggression was the least charge lodged against me by the Leader of the Opposition. Apparently, I am thin-skinned and a hypocrite, as well. Now, Mr Jacobs referred to me by name in public correspondence and made a baseless assertion regarding my political principles. I was then prompted to comment on this remark. Therefore, I hardly agree with his insinuation that it was 'thin-skinned' of me to do so. If I was moved to make such an assertion myself, I might suggest that a man who continues to bear a personal grudge over a parliamentary exchange from over a year ago, and who explosively responds to any questioning of his character, may by temperament be unsuited to the highest office.
As for the charge of hypocrisy, this is an old canard. It appears that the Tories are both literally and proverbially moored in the past. Here Mr Jacobs mentions Mr Attlee's government, and here I must state - as I have previously done - that I was neither a minister within his administration nor even a Member of Parliament at the time. As such, I bear about as much responsibility for its defence policy as I do for the Black Death. Mr Jacobs goes further than most in his attempted smear by suggesting that I somehow bear vicarious culpability merely for being a member of the Labour Party. Does he therefore carry the burden of the Force Britannia Club, or Mr Cochrane's bigotry? I know my stance on national security, and he knows it as well. A cursory glance at the parliamentary record will reveal that it has been consistent and robust.
It is interesting to note that both Mr Jacobs and Mr Connor's Communists have resorted to dredging up history. Both are fixated on the election of 1945 and Mr Attlee's administration of ten years ago. They search the past for ammunition because they are given none in the present. They cannot deny the achievements of the Prime Minister and the Labour Government. Why should the British people entrust the Conservative Party with the government when the Tories cannot even make the case for themselves?
Rt. Hon. Sylvia Leighton PC MP
Secretary of State for Defence
Member for Sutton and Cheam
Secretary of State for Defence
Member for Sutton and Cheam
Ambushed by a journalist, Connor quickly answered.
Journalist: Excuse me Mr. Connor! Could you answer on Mrs. Leighton's, also called "the Red Tory" by a variety of political observators and personalities, criticism on you on "resorting to dredge up history". What are your answers to this statement?
Connor: First of all, I find it very interesting that the declarations of Mr. Jacobs is what the Secretary for Defence has decided to focus on in her campaign, rather than adressing the matters that plague Britain due to the Toryism of the government she was a part of. This is her way of shifting the focus from the failure of that Toryism, which the Leader of the Opposition himself has acknowledged by calling Mrs. Leighton "Red Tory" and subsequently criticizing her solutions. At the same time, she seems to talk about completely erasing and forgetting past actions, such as those of Dr. Bennet, her leader and Prime Minister, who was a part of the 1945 Atlee government. It seems to be quite inconsistent views, with the sole motivation being to promote imperialism and hiding the betrayal of her own party towards the people of Britain.
Personally, I think the focus should be around how the government consistently has ignored the demands of the Labour Movement and instead resorted to jingoism when their reforms failed to pass or were rejected by the people. The Secretary is fully aware that it is my primary occupation, given the debates we had in the previous parliamentary session, in which she tried to hide facts behind her capitalist positions.
Now if you excuse me, I have to attend an important discussion, as my position as the General Secretary of the CPBG obliges.
Journalist: Excuse me Mr. Connor! Could you answer on Mrs. Leighton's, also called "the Red Tory" by a variety of political observators and personalities, criticism on you on "resorting to dredge up history". What are your answers to this statement?
Connor: First of all, I find it very interesting that the declarations of Mr. Jacobs is what the Secretary for Defence has decided to focus on in her campaign, rather than adressing the matters that plague Britain due to the Toryism of the government she was a part of. This is her way of shifting the focus from the failure of that Toryism, which the Leader of the Opposition himself has acknowledged by calling Mrs. Leighton "Red Tory" and subsequently criticizing her solutions. At the same time, she seems to talk about completely erasing and forgetting past actions, such as those of Dr. Bennet, her leader and Prime Minister, who was a part of the 1945 Atlee government. It seems to be quite inconsistent views, with the sole motivation being to promote imperialism and hiding the betrayal of her own party towards the people of Britain.
Personally, I think the focus should be around how the government consistently has ignored the demands of the Labour Movement and instead resorted to jingoism when their reforms failed to pass or were rejected by the people. The Secretary is fully aware that it is my primary occupation, given the debates we had in the previous parliamentary session, in which she tried to hide facts behind her capitalist positions.
Now if you excuse me, I have to attend an important discussion, as my position as the General Secretary of the CPBG obliges.
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"Once again, Ms. Leighton has made an absolutely pathetic case for herself. I am not accusing her of being personally responsible for Labour's anti-military programme. I am accusing her of deliberately misleading the public when she 'dredges up the past' herself in smearing the Conservatives for making minor Navy cuts, when the Labour Party were about to very literally split our Navy in half. I will re-iterate that she is lying by omission to the public by doing this which, I might remind the nation, is absolutely unacceptable for any Cabinet minister to be doing.
The proposed cuts under Labour are not ancient history, but the events of less than a decade ago, and occurred the very same year that Leighton made the choice to run on Labour's behalf. They were voted for by both the Labour Prime Minister at the time, and by the current Labour Prime Minister, when Bennett was an MP, and The Labour Party still argued for the cuts when she became one of their MPs. She absolutely cannot pretend it is irrelevant that her own current Prime Minister voted for four times the cuts made by the Conservatives - and then sends his Defence Secretary out as his attack dog to label the Conservatives as military budget slashers. And it is rather rich of her to accuse us of bringing up the past when it was she who brought up Navy cuts in the first place. And if she is tired of being reminded of this every time she lies to the electorate on this subject, then perhaps it is prudent that she stop misleading the public.
I don't know about Ms. Leighton, but I consider a liar to be far more unfit for high office than any label she could possibly put on myself.
Ms. Leighton has knowingly mislead the public constantly and repetitively. This has reached the point of edging into a matter of Government inquiry, and I would hope that the Prime Minister set her straight before that point comes."
The proposed cuts under Labour are not ancient history, but the events of less than a decade ago, and occurred the very same year that Leighton made the choice to run on Labour's behalf. They were voted for by both the Labour Prime Minister at the time, and by the current Labour Prime Minister, when Bennett was an MP, and The Labour Party still argued for the cuts when she became one of their MPs. She absolutely cannot pretend it is irrelevant that her own current Prime Minister voted for four times the cuts made by the Conservatives - and then sends his Defence Secretary out as his attack dog to label the Conservatives as military budget slashers. And it is rather rich of her to accuse us of bringing up the past when it was she who brought up Navy cuts in the first place. And if she is tired of being reminded of this every time she lies to the electorate on this subject, then perhaps it is prudent that she stop misleading the public.
I don't know about Ms. Leighton, but I consider a liar to be far more unfit for high office than any label she could possibly put on myself.
Ms. Leighton has knowingly mislead the public constantly and repetitively. This has reached the point of edging into a matter of Government inquiry, and I would hope that the Prime Minister set her straight before that point comes."
Following weeks of campaigning, Dr. Bennett returned to Transport House, London, the Labour Party Headquarters, to hold a short speech before the official first release of the Labour Party 1959 Election Manifesto. The speech became one of the most repeated pieces of rhetoric of the 1959 Election on the news, on the radio and in the newspaper.
People of Britain, Friends, Comrades,
This election period has not been marked by great debates about ideological issues on which prospective MPs disagree, this election period has not been marked by great visions of Britain and its Commonwealth for the next five years or the next decade, this election period has mostly, I fear to conclude, been marked by dirty tactics of character assasination and unnuanced quotes spread around the nation that do not represent either the views and the visions of the politician nor the status quo in Britain. We are no longer a nation united against the Great Dangers of the Second World War, we are no longer a nation united in its mission to rebuild a strong, democratic and propserous society in which all can achieve according their ability and all are fostered according to their needs. We are a nation divided by tabloids and debates, out-dated, mis-placed and irrelevant to the real needs, while still, even when Britain has never been so prosperous, workers and our youths, who form the backbone and future of our nation, live lives dependent not on their ability but on their birth.
Britain needs not have another Gibbons or Eden, tied by a rigid dogma of far fetched and outdated solutions to the problems we Britons face today, who, when faced with natives desiring freedom or economic malaise, resort to Victorian gunboat diplomacy and '30-style cuts to the Social Services, the NHS and the Education system, which in the Britain of today safeguard not only the livelyhoods of the pensioneers, widowed and unemployed, but safeguard our health and future. However, this rigid dogma of Eden and Gibbons forms the basis of unity and strength in the Conservative Party, as it has never truly accepted the transition from the pre-World War society - the society of tradition and birth - to the post-War society - the society of reform and merit. In this new society, in this people's society, there is no room for this outdated dogma, as we saw in 1945, when the People's voice layed the foundations of the welfare state, and in 1954, when the People's voice forced Eden to resign. The power in those voices has reached unequalled hights in Britain, in a time when dictators employ whatever means necessary to maintain tyrannical control over peoples across the globe. However, the Conservative Party has realised the failure of its dogma and its effect we have to face today. In an inability to provide modern solutions to modern problems, the campaign leaders of the Conservative Party seeks to divide our nation with character assasination, unnuanced quotes and debates, out-dated, mis-placed and irrelevant to the real needs. While Labour has provided prosperity, equality and social mobility.
However, Friends, Labour's job is far from finished, unlike the Conservatives, our duty and mission is to face the problems of the people, for we are of, from, for the people. That is our identity, that is our commitment, that is how much we have in common with the people. Let us emphasise that, let us demonstrate it, let us not hide it away as if it was something extraordinary or evidence of reaction. Let us stand this election, as we did the previous, with a commitment to better our society, to make our society a greater one, with new initiatives and laws that first and foremost serve Britons rather than a rigid and outdated dogma. It is thus that I present this manifesto to you today.
The Rt. Hon. Dr. Arthur G. Bennett MP,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
((I know the manifestos are published tomorrow, I just wanted to make a short speech regarding the manifesto))
People of Britain, Friends, Comrades,
This election period has not been marked by great debates about ideological issues on which prospective MPs disagree, this election period has not been marked by great visions of Britain and its Commonwealth for the next five years or the next decade, this election period has mostly, I fear to conclude, been marked by dirty tactics of character assasination and unnuanced quotes spread around the nation that do not represent either the views and the visions of the politician nor the status quo in Britain. We are no longer a nation united against the Great Dangers of the Second World War, we are no longer a nation united in its mission to rebuild a strong, democratic and propserous society in which all can achieve according their ability and all are fostered according to their needs. We are a nation divided by tabloids and debates, out-dated, mis-placed and irrelevant to the real needs, while still, even when Britain has never been so prosperous, workers and our youths, who form the backbone and future of our nation, live lives dependent not on their ability but on their birth.
Britain needs not have another Gibbons or Eden, tied by a rigid dogma of far fetched and outdated solutions to the problems we Britons face today, who, when faced with natives desiring freedom or economic malaise, resort to Victorian gunboat diplomacy and '30-style cuts to the Social Services, the NHS and the Education system, which in the Britain of today safeguard not only the livelyhoods of the pensioneers, widowed and unemployed, but safeguard our health and future. However, this rigid dogma of Eden and Gibbons forms the basis of unity and strength in the Conservative Party, as it has never truly accepted the transition from the pre-World War society - the society of tradition and birth - to the post-War society - the society of reform and merit. In this new society, in this people's society, there is no room for this outdated dogma, as we saw in 1945, when the People's voice layed the foundations of the welfare state, and in 1954, when the People's voice forced Eden to resign. The power in those voices has reached unequalled hights in Britain, in a time when dictators employ whatever means necessary to maintain tyrannical control over peoples across the globe. However, the Conservative Party has realised the failure of its dogma and its effect we have to face today. In an inability to provide modern solutions to modern problems, the campaign leaders of the Conservative Party seeks to divide our nation with character assasination, unnuanced quotes and debates, out-dated, mis-placed and irrelevant to the real needs. While Labour has provided prosperity, equality and social mobility.
However, Friends, Labour's job is far from finished, unlike the Conservatives, our duty and mission is to face the problems of the people, for we are of, from, for the people. That is our identity, that is our commitment, that is how much we have in common with the people. Let us emphasise that, let us demonstrate it, let us not hide it away as if it was something extraordinary or evidence of reaction. Let us stand this election, as we did the previous, with a commitment to better our society, to make our society a greater one, with new initiatives and laws that first and foremost serve Britons rather than a rigid and outdated dogma. It is thus that I present this manifesto to you today.
The Rt. Hon. Dr. Arthur G. Bennett MP,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
((I know the manifestos are published tomorrow, I just wanted to make a short speech regarding the manifesto))
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To the NUM
Labour has given us so much in these recent years. Far more than even the most optimistic among us could expect.
However the benefits we have received from the Party aren't limited at the increased Wages that we were rewarded with for our years and years of hard work.
The Labour Party has given us greater security at work, they have destroyed the whip that the owner would use to beat us by nationalising the industry, meaning we can be secure in the Knowledge that we don't work for profit, that we won't be forced out of work for reasons that can't be explained. That we work for ourselves, not a faceless corporation.
However labour isn't just working to improve the lives of the NUM member, although we do have a special friendship with the party. They are working for every worker, and will give them the same security offered to us by providing a minimum wage that a man and his family can live on.
This need is something that has and will still be ignored by the stories, no matter who leads the party because they are physically incapable to understand the hardships of an average man's life.
Labour is different, it is a party by the people, for the people and accountable to the People.
So please vote with your fellow man for a party that cares and will make a difference instead of one that doesn't care for you or me and works to appease their financial backers.
For the Workers
Vote Labour
Labour has given us so much in these recent years. Far more than even the most optimistic among us could expect.
However the benefits we have received from the Party aren't limited at the increased Wages that we were rewarded with for our years and years of hard work.
The Labour Party has given us greater security at work, they have destroyed the whip that the owner would use to beat us by nationalising the industry, meaning we can be secure in the Knowledge that we don't work for profit, that we won't be forced out of work for reasons that can't be explained. That we work for ourselves, not a faceless corporation.
However labour isn't just working to improve the lives of the NUM member, although we do have a special friendship with the party. They are working for every worker, and will give them the same security offered to us by providing a minimum wage that a man and his family can live on.
This need is something that has and will still be ignored by the stories, no matter who leads the party because they are physically incapable to understand the hardships of an average man's life.
Labour is different, it is a party by the people, for the people and accountable to the People.
So please vote with your fellow man for a party that cares and will make a difference instead of one that doesn't care for you or me and works to appease their financial backers.
For the Workers
Vote Labour
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Election of 1959 (Parties)
The Conservative and Unionist Party
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Election of 1959 (Parties)
The Conservative and Unionist Party
Political Position: Right-WingIdeology: Traditional Conservatism, One-Nation Conservatism, Liberal Conservatism, National Liberalism
Leader: T. R. Jacobs
The Conservative Party is the oldest electoral faction in the British Empire; the direct inheritor of the antiquated Tory legacy. It has been the ideological foundation of many conservative variants, but is present an amalgamation of High Tories, moderate pragmatists, and fiscal conservatives. The ascension of an outspoken and reformist new leader, T. R. Jacobs, coincides with a new refurbishment of the CUP, which pledges to provide a more energetic and modern opposition to the forces of the Lib-Lab pact. It is supported by a broad range of interests, including the wealthy elite, independent businesses, rural portions of British society, the non-progressive and traditionalist portions of the middle class, and non-unionised members of the working class who have felt betrayed by the seemingly lackluster and bourgeois nature of Bennett's 'Professor's Cabinet'.
Foreign Policy:
The Conservative Party has aligned itself firmly with NATO and against the USSR, having campaigned for the continuation of the Spanish Blockade and to re-establish the friendship of Britain and the USA after the isolationism of the earlier Bennett years. The Conservative Party, as it always has done, believes that key to Britain's role on the global state is a strong and well funded military. There is also a widespread Pro-European sentiment, which wishes to see further integration with Europe and the establishment of a Common Market.
With the departure of most of the Empire's eastern colonies, the Conservative Party is concerned with the continued protection of White subjects in the certain colonies which are growing particularly unstable, and ensuring that any Dominions or Commonwealth states resulting from the inevitable march of decolonisation are aligned with the Democratic Bloc. The Conservative Party admonishes the loss of Belize and Iraq to the machinations of the Soviets, and will firmly act to prevent such blunders in the future.
Domestic Policy:
The Conservative Party has accepted the post-war consensus of mixed economy and the welfare state since 1950 - its' primary concern is not to limit or repeal reform, but to ensure that it is implemented with a guided and responsible hand and without the reckless haste of Socialism. The influx of rightist liberals, with Lord Scarsdale's alignment to the party, has caused the majority of the Conservative Party to abandon the reactionary traditionalism of the Force Britannia Club, and instead preach the gospel of moderate paternalism. With the ejection of such aged elements from the Party's structure, the Conservative Party can focus on defending the interests of civil society against the unceasing assault of socialist transgression, and governance more in line with the opinions of the British Public.
As part of an agenda of "Common Sense Policies", the Conservative Party also supports tax cuts across society, anti-pollution legislation for the Urban centers, ending significant overspend in non-military Government departments, and an affirmative end to constitutional meddling with the House of Lords - which it sees as a precursor to total abolition. The Conservative Party, increasingly suspicious of the quid pro quo relationship between Trade Unions and the Government, wishes to re-asses the relationship between organised labour and the Government, and ensure industrial disputes are settled in an open and transparent manner.
It is, moreover, committed to the continued Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and opposes separatism in the Celtic Fringe and Northern Ireland - the latter of which it has representation via the Ulster Unionist Party.
Labour Party (electoral pact with Liberals)
Political Position: Left-wing
Ideologies: Social Democracy, Liberal Socialism, Moderate Socialism, Trotskyism.
Leader: Dr. Arthur Bennett
The Labour Party is the youthful juvenile of the major parties – a remarkable creation that nurtured out of the fading vitality of the Liberal Party. It is the partisan representative of urban workers and unions; representing a vague leftist constituency. The party's members range from Trotskyists to democratic socialists, with a strong preference for public service expansion and traditional socialist principles. Northern cities are becoming increasingly sympathetic to the Labour agenda, which has replaced the Conservatives as the primary protector of the working class.
Foreign Policy:
The Labour Party is internationalist at heart and fully supports the UN. Labour's Policy is to safeguard British interest, nourish democracy and maintain peace. We have always realised, however, that power is required to make the rule of law effective. That is why during the period of the East-West deadlock we have stood resolutely by our defensive alliances and contributed our share to Western defence through NATO It is our view that any weakening of the alliance would contribute to a worsening of international relations. The Labour Party will ensure that the United Kingdom maintains a constructive foreign policy, not fueled by neo imperialistic and reckless dogma, and will maintain the United Kingdom as a basition of democracy and meditator of peace between two nuclear and colliding powers in which armed minorities form a greater threat to democracies and nationstates than ever before.
Imperial Policy:
The Labour Party holds a philosophy of ‘patriotic democracy’ with regards to the Empire, wholeheartedly in favour of the Commonwealth of Nations but aware of the challenges of independence. The granting of independence to current colonies would be considered on a case-by-case basis. Labour has become increasingly anti-imperial and follows the Marrite Imperial Policy Doctrine, which maintains stability, peace and democracy around the Commonwealth.
Domestic Policy:
The Labour Party will seek to maintain the policies of great investment in social services of the last Labour Parliament. A Labour government would hold production and employment at the heart of its economic policy and will build on its vital programme of modernization, improvement and nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy to increase it. The Labour Party also holds social mobility and shared prosperity as two principle concerns of Government and will introduce policies to increase both.
Reform Policy:
A National Living Wage The Labour Party holds in this time of increased prosperity we should take action to maintain economic growth and enhance the prosperity of all rather than the few. The Labour Party will thus implentment a National Living Wage, to assure all working Britons a fair pay for fair work and increased shared prosperity for Britain as a whole.
An Industrial Code of Conduct Our policy for planned expansion without inflation requires the full co-operation of the private sector of industry. Our tax policy will be directed towards helping industry to mechanise, modernise and expand and make a maximum contribution to exports. As for the industrial giants which dominate our economic life, we shall ensure that these firms plan their operations in accordance with our national objectives of full employment and maximum efficiency. With employers and trade unions we shall work out a Code of Conduct. This will include a Workers' Charter, designed to raise the status of the wage-earner and extend privileges, such as holiday pay, already provided for most salaried employees.
Consumer Protection The Labour Party shall begin a vigorous campaign of consumer protection. Buyers will be protected against hire-purchase ramps and shoddy goods. A tough anti-monopoly policy will lower prices and we shall make it compulsory to show clearly the net weight or quantity of pack- aged goods. Existing consumer protection organisations will be encouraged and we shall examine the need for further consumer protection - a task in which the Co-operative Movement will obviously have a great part to play.
A Memorandum for Urban Planning At the last count there were seven million households in Britain with no bath, and over three million sharing or entirely without a w.c. The Tories have tried and failed to better the coniditions with market solutions. The Labour Party recognizes the shortages and lack of quality of houses across Britain. It will therefore issue a Memorandum for Urban Planning to support Local Councils in modernizing and repairing these house and mandating fair rents. The Labour Party will thus assist Local Councils in building new houses, infastructure and public facilities to meet the demands of a new Britain.
Constructive Welfare Seeing that the created prosperity under the Labour Government benefited the working Britons, the Labour Party will increase Pensions and Widows' Pay to guarentee good living standards for the honest workers' and wives of yesterday. The Labour Party will also guarentee purchasing power for pensioneers and widows, to prevent the poverty under the Conservative Government from returning.
Reform of Government The Labour Government is committed to a democratic governance of Britain and will take action to guarentee the continued prevailment of democratic rule in Britain with the passage of such acts as the Peerages Reforms and the Parliament Bill, 1956.
Reform of Taxation Under the Labour Government we could pay for increased social services, education, administrative and defense spending while also lowering taxation on the poor and middle class and maintaining a healthy surplus. However, seeing the large amount of untaxed transition of property, the Labour Party shall change the tax system to deal with the tax-dodgers and limit tax-free benefits. These benefits are now so extensive and lavish that the ordinary wage or salary earner who has no access to them pays more than his fair share of taxation. In particular, we shall deal with the business man's expense account racket and the tax-free compensation paid to directors on loss of office; We shall tax the huge capital gains made on the Stock Exchange and elsewhere and we shall block other loopholes in the tax law including those which lead to the avoidance of death duties and surtax.
Policy towards Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland:
Each of the various nations that make up the United Kingdom has its special problems. The Labour Party has recognised this by issuing the policy statements Let Scotland Prosper and Forward with Labour - Labour's Policy For Wales. The Northern Ireland Labour Party has issued its own policy statement on the problems of Ulster, to which Labour's National Executive has given general approval. Labour's plans for expansion, maintaining full employment and maintaining constructive welfare and industrial investment will benefit all these areas. In particular we will take vigorous measures to increase and diversify industry and to stimulate agriculture. Improvements in communications will include such major enterprises as the building of road bridges over the Severn and the Tay. The time has now also come for the special identity of Wales to be recognised by the appointment of a Secretary of State.
Liberals (electoral pact with Labour Party)
Political Position: Centre to Centre-left
Ideology: Social Liberalism
Leader(s): Who the hell knows
Foreign Policy
The Liberal Party is dedicated to anti-communism and opposition to the Soviet Union, as well as support for improved relations with the other nations of Europe.
Imperial Policy
The Liberal Party supports the pursuit of decolonization, however, it admits to the need to maintain overseas possessions for a longer period of time, until the point that they are capable of stable independence.
Domestic Policy
The Liberal supports a centrist “fair” market economy with an emphasis upon tripartism and a strong and self-sufficient British economic situation. It will defend at every turn the need for intelligent social systems built upon the objective of personal financial improvement, with the ultimate goal being to reduce stress on the welfare state.
Communist Party of Great Britain (merged with Common Wealth Party)
Political Position: Far-left
Ideology: Communism, Stalinism
Leader: Jarlath Connor
The CPGB is Britain's premier Marxist party, flaunting the successes of continental Marxist resistance groups and the Soviet Union as vindicators of communist merit. While the British party still seeks to attain the powerful position of their continental allies, it's roots in the Labour Movement ensures that it has a strong base in the Imperial proletariat. Specific for it is the will to associate parliamentary struggle with the fight for the cause of the workers. The CPBG is a Stalinophile party with robust ties to the Soviet Union and other socialist republics that are a part of the Warsaw Pact. The party's program is based upon the British Road to Socialism and with that as a base, the leftist popular front with other progressive parties to expand social reforms in the increasingly class-divided nation was created under the name of Alliance for a Socialist Britain.
Foreign Policy:
Unlike the Conservative Party and Labour Party, they are completely opposed to agreements with the United States, which they consider to be an imperialist enemy, but heartily endorse increased ties with the Soviet Union. The Communist Party is committed to support Communist groups across the world, most notably in China where they are radically opposed to the current regime of the country. As a defender of demilitarization and pacifism and out of solidarity for the Spanish workers, it asks for a complete withdrawal of the blockade on Spain. The party is staunchly opposed to the British involvement in the ECSC.
Imperial Policy
Perceiving the imperial persistence as equitable to Fascism or Nazism, the Communist Party is the most acerbic in its anti-imperialist rhetoric. The party demands total withdrawal from the subjected regions, and wishes to see Britain establish democratic nations in their former colonies. Something that caused a lot of protest from the party was how the Labour government of Atlee treated India. In opposition to the capitalists and colonial attitude towards Scotland and Wales, the CPBG is in favour of devolution for Scotland and Wales.
Domestic Policy
The Communist Party is in favour of a Popular Front of progressive forces to spur socialist nationalization of most industries, the implementation of vast social networks, and the creation of a planned economy. While it supports the NHS and national welfare programs of the Labour Party from 1945, the party pushes the ideas of reform a lot further with more radical aims and continued change. The increasing profits by capitalists and economic collaboration with the United States has created further distance between the Communists and Labourites, that also do not have the same stances on electoral and parliamentary matters.
Ideology: Communism, Stalinism
Leader: Jarlath Connor
The CPGB is Britain's premier Marxist party, flaunting the successes of continental Marxist resistance groups and the Soviet Union as vindicators of communist merit. While the British party still seeks to attain the powerful position of their continental allies, it's roots in the Labour Movement ensures that it has a strong base in the Imperial proletariat. Specific for it is the will to associate parliamentary struggle with the fight for the cause of the workers. The CPBG is a Stalinophile party with robust ties to the Soviet Union and other socialist republics that are a part of the Warsaw Pact. The party's program is based upon the British Road to Socialism and with that as a base, the leftist popular front with other progressive parties to expand social reforms in the increasingly class-divided nation was created under the name of Alliance for a Socialist Britain.
Foreign Policy:
Unlike the Conservative Party and Labour Party, they are completely opposed to agreements with the United States, which they consider to be an imperialist enemy, but heartily endorse increased ties with the Soviet Union. The Communist Party is committed to support Communist groups across the world, most notably in China where they are radically opposed to the current regime of the country. As a defender of demilitarization and pacifism and out of solidarity for the Spanish workers, it asks for a complete withdrawal of the blockade on Spain. The party is staunchly opposed to the British involvement in the ECSC.
Imperial Policy
Perceiving the imperial persistence as equitable to Fascism or Nazism, the Communist Party is the most acerbic in its anti-imperialist rhetoric. The party demands total withdrawal from the subjected regions, and wishes to see Britain establish democratic nations in their former colonies. Something that caused a lot of protest from the party was how the Labour government of Atlee treated India. In opposition to the capitalists and colonial attitude towards Scotland and Wales, the CPBG is in favour of devolution for Scotland and Wales.
Domestic Policy
The Communist Party is in favour of a Popular Front of progressive forces to spur socialist nationalization of most industries, the implementation of vast social networks, and the creation of a planned economy. While it supports the NHS and national welfare programs of the Labour Party from 1945, the party pushes the ideas of reform a lot further with more radical aims and continued change. The increasing profits by capitalists and economic collaboration with the United States has created further distance between the Communists and Labourites, that also do not have the same stances on electoral and parliamentary matters.
Minor(er) Parties:
Common Wealth Party (merged with Communist Party): an alliance of socialists and Trotskyists with more radical policies than Labour. Their party motto signifies their primary concerns: Common Ownership, Morality in Politics and Vital Democracy.
Plaid Cmyru: the largest Welsh nationalist party, endorsing the encouragement of the ancient customs and language and separation from the United Kingdom.
Scottish National Party: the primary Scottish nationalist faction, endorsing the encouragement of the ancient customs and language of Alba and eventual separation from the United Kingdom.
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"Did you hear, Ted? They want to put more regulations on the Bankers."
"Christ alive, we'll be drowning in donations come afternoon!"
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Party: The Conservative Party
Constituency: Chelsea
[Politician]
[Leader of the Opposition +3 PP]
"Did you hear, Ted? They want to put more regulations on the Bankers."
"Christ alive, we'll be drowning in donations come afternoon!"
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Party: The Conservative Party
Constituency: Chelsea
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[Leader of the Opposition +3 PP]
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Stephen Harwick makes one last campaign speech:
"My fellow Britons,
Over the past five years, the Labour Party has governed this nation based on the basic principles of equality and democracy. We have passed important reforms to benefit British workers, we have maintained a strong military to defend Britain and her allies, and we have dealt candidly with both the British people and the other nations of the world. Unlike the Conservatives, we have not stymied reform to benefit the social elites; unlike the Conservatives, we have not implemented reactionary legislation; unlike the Conservatives, we have not used shadowy coups to oust democratic foreign governments.
In this election, as in every election, you are presented with a choice: the path of progress, hope, and prosperity, or that of stagnation, deprivation, and austerity. One is the path of continued Labour governance, and one is the treacherous channel of a return to Tory rule. Now, I ask you: which do you want? Do you want to see your wages fall whilst your hours increase? Do you want to see your savings disappear whilst prices rise? Do you want to see the world plunged into ever greater danger whilst your government alienates democratic allies and the Soviets gain influence? If you want these things, then vote for the Tories! If you want these things, then vote for the status quo ante! If you want these things, then vote for the devil you know!
But, if you do not want to see yourselves and your families suffer, if do not want a darker future, then I can say only one thing: vote for Labour!"
Party: Labour Party
Constituency: Newport
[Politician]
[No Bonus]
"My fellow Britons,
Over the past five years, the Labour Party has governed this nation based on the basic principles of equality and democracy. We have passed important reforms to benefit British workers, we have maintained a strong military to defend Britain and her allies, and we have dealt candidly with both the British people and the other nations of the world. Unlike the Conservatives, we have not stymied reform to benefit the social elites; unlike the Conservatives, we have not implemented reactionary legislation; unlike the Conservatives, we have not used shadowy coups to oust democratic foreign governments.
In this election, as in every election, you are presented with a choice: the path of progress, hope, and prosperity, or that of stagnation, deprivation, and austerity. One is the path of continued Labour governance, and one is the treacherous channel of a return to Tory rule. Now, I ask you: which do you want? Do you want to see your wages fall whilst your hours increase? Do you want to see your savings disappear whilst prices rise? Do you want to see the world plunged into ever greater danger whilst your government alienates democratic allies and the Soviets gain influence? If you want these things, then vote for the Tories! If you want these things, then vote for the status quo ante! If you want these things, then vote for the devil you know!
But, if you do not want to see yourselves and your families suffer, if do not want a darker future, then I can say only one thing: vote for Labour!"
Party: Labour Party
Constituency: Newport
[Politician]
[No Bonus]
Party: The Conservative Party (NatLib)
Constituency: Oxford University
[Politician]
[National Figurehead, +2PP]
Constituency: Oxford University
[Politician]
[National Figurehead, +2PP]
Party: The Labour Party
Constituency: Islington North
[Politician]
[Prime Minister + 4 PP,
Social Warrior + 1 PP]
Constituency: Islington North
[Politician]
[Prime Minister + 4 PP,
Social Warrior + 1 PP]