[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] decided that opposing the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.2 0 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]: […] of unity, to reselect Brown, only to be told by Brown at the meeting that he had ‘a little lifeboat’ and was joining the SDP. 8 Anthony Blair was a keen Bennite in Hackney South – a pose he noticeably avoided whilst simultaneously seeking selection in various locations in the North East of England […]
[PDF file]: […] whole exercise was a New Labour charade. New Labour relied very heavily on McKinsey for advice during its time in office. Indeed, according to Simon Jenkins, under Blair, ‘the day of consultancy government had arrived… Downing Street came under the influence of the McKinsey mafia’.2 As late as February 2009, the New Labour government […]
[PDF file]: […] Corbyn ally who became his Shadow Chancellor in 2015, and he has a better grasp of Labour history. He had grown up during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and identified with their critics who had seen the party’s loss of members, confidence and popular support from the New Labour high point […]
[PDF file]: […] Private Secretary. There seem to be four dimensions to his writing and thinking during these years. First of all there is a bit of an obsession with Blair, with whether or not his hair is receding and with his hand movements while speaking. Second, MacShane is a committed name-dropper, mentioning everyone important he meets. […]
