[…] the headline to Gordon Brown’s latest tone-deaf article about Broken-down Blighty.29 He is incapable of admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for neo-con economic fantasies and their belief that this country didn’t need to make things […]
[…] the headline to Gordon Brown’s latest tone-deaf article about Broken-down Blighty.29 He is incapable of admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for neo-con economic fantasies and their belief that this country didn’t need to make things […]
[PDF file]: […] a receptive audience at the highest levels of the Civil Service for a government that would ‘take decisions’. Such opinions should be seen in the context that Blair had already admitted that he spent his entire first term (1997-2001) learning the job and Brown’s priorities appeared to be endlessly gauging his immediate political advantage […]
[PDF file]: […] Marshall-Andrews London: Profile Books, 2011 £16.99 h/b Standing for Something Mark Seddon London: Biteback Publishing, 2011 £16.99 h/b ‘Forty per cent of the British people believe that Blair should be tried as a war criminal. I am one of that number’. Obviously the memoirs of any Labour MP with such admirable views are worth […]
[…] ilk in Lobster 83, in this column at under subheads Broon and More Broon. 3 admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for neo-con economic fantasies and their belief that this country didn’t need to make things […]
[PDF file]: […] he actually intended to do good in the world. As early as 1995, the eminent sociologist, A. H. Halsey, a fellow ‘Christian Socialist’, had a conversation with Blair regarding the New Testament and its significance today. They discussed who they considered to be the most interesting man in the New Testament after Jesus. Halsey […]
[PDF file]: […] they decided that opposing the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.24 Changes begun under Neil Kinnock were continued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when they became more or less joint party leaders in 1994 and then took office in 1997. Several wars, the banking crisis (and […]
[PDF file]: […] once again be crucified on an excessively high exchange rate.’ – Wynne Godley, The Observer (Business) 23 August 1998. By the time Labour took office Brown and Blair had promised to toe the conservative line on economic policy: no income tax rises, no increased public spending, no attempts to use government to direct the […]
[…] undoubtedly risen even further in the last three years. The rich are getting richer and the poor relatively poorer. Ironically, this has been especially true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every […]
[…] undoubtedly risen even further in the last three years. The rich are getting richer and the poor relatively poorer. Ironically, this has been especially true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every […]
