Know Your Enemy

A quick reminder about the upcoming London Socialist Historians Group conference on Making the Tories History on 26 February in London. For some preliminary/background reading on the history of the Conservative Party, see Simon Basketter's fairly recent four part online series which starts here

Sack Osbourne, not Public Sector Workers

Young Gideon George ''It's not as if I grew up in a stately home with a deer park" Osbourne

Those depressed by by the Tories' declaration of class war yesterday might derive some joy from a superb piece of investigative journalism by Simon Basketter into the lifestyles and background of David Cameron (fifth cousin, twice removed, to the queen) and Gideon George Osbourne (heir to the baronetcy of Ballintaylor and Ballylemon, County Waterford). Fortunately the fightback to save jobs, services and defend the welfare state from these Tory 'class warriors' has begun...