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Labour’s bad boys – Part 9 Peter Mandelson

12th March 2026 well_chuffed 0

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, these days better known as Baron Mandelson, has had to resign 3 times from official positions. A devious snake of a man one hopes he is finally out of our sight. He [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 8 Ron Davies

5th March 2026 well_chuffed 0

In 1998 poor old Ron Davies was held to ridicule. In 1983 he was elected to represent Caerphilly in the House of Shame. He was appointed Secretary of State for Wales in Satan Blair’s cabinet [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 7 Harold Wilson

26th February 2026 well_chuffed 0

We need to take a quick look at Harold Wilson’s 1976 Prime Minister’s Resignation Honours. This was known as the Lavender List allegedly because Lady Falkender had written the draft on lavender coloured paper. How [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 6 Will Owen

19th February 2026 well_chuffed 0

William James Owen formerly a miner and latterly a Labour MP was tried for spying for the Czechs, it’s amazing how often Czech Intelligence’s name crops up when politicians are accused of spying. Better known [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 5 Tom Driberg

12th February 2026 well_chuffed 0

So we go back to the 1960s and Tom Driberg. A notorious and flamboyant homosexual when such behaviour was likely to get you a jail sentence. Considering he was an ugly so and so I [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 4 The Lord Levy

5th February 2026 well_chuffed 0

It’s time to introduce Satan Blair. To be more precise it concerns the Lord Levy but he was acting on behalf of the great deceiver himself. Michael Abraham Levy, later Lord Levy, was the chief [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 3 John Stonehouse

29th January 2026 well_chuffed 0

Our John is one of the more interesting cases. There have been multiple accusations of trade union leaders and Labour MPs taking the Russian shilling though you have to ask whether some of them could [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 2 Hugh Dalton

22nd January 2026 well_chuffed 0

These days Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, known as Hugh, would be considered one of the good guys but in 1947 he committed one of the worst sins possible in those more genteel times. He [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 1 Nick Brown

15th January 2026 well_chuffed 0

Nicholas Hugh Brown, known as Nick, born in 1950 in Kent is the object of much speculation, none of it good. He went to the University of Manchester and worked in advertising for Proctor and [more…]

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