Mark Thomas Presents the People's Manifesto - Mark Thomas [22]
23. Daily Mirror, 22 January 1934: ‘Timid alarmists all this week have been whimpering that the rapid growth in numbers of the British Blackshirts is preparing the way for a system of rulership by means of steel whips and concentration camps. Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under Blackshirt government. The notion that a permanent reign of terror exists there has been evolved entirely from their own morbid imaginations, fed by sensational propaganda from opponents of the party now in power. As a purely British organization, the Blackshirts will respect those principles of tolerance which are traditional in British politics. They have no prejudice either of class or race. Their recruits are drawn from all social grades and every political party. Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to the Headquarters, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, S.W.’
24. Register of Members’ Interests.
25. Ditto.
26. Ditto.
27. Ditto.
28. America.
29. With Britain and Spain.
30. I use the term lightly.
31. Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Triennial Survey for 2007. www.bis.org/publ/rpfx07.htm
32. This rate was tested in a small UK bank in conjunction with the campaigning group Stamp Out Poverty.
33. Labour Behind the Label, Let’s Clean Up Fashion 2009 – the state of pay behind the UK high street. http://www.labour behindthelabel.org/images/pdf/letscleanupfashion2009.pdf
34. Guardian, 17 July 2007. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jul/18/health.medicineandhealth
35. The company was ordered to pay £6.6 million in 2009.
36. National Housing Federation Home Truths 2009 – South West http://www.housing.org.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=288&mid=835&ctl=Details&ArticleID=2524
37. http://www.ukpolitical.info/Turnout45.htm
38. Neil Clark, New Statesman, 2009. http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2009/11/railways-public-privatisation
39. Neil Clark, New Statesman, November 2009. http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2009/11/railways-public-privatisation