[PDF file]: […] part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole.” He got that right.)’ 2 City lobbying H ow this has […]
[PDF file]: […] to hold most of the cards and boast the better spokespeople. Major’s Chancellor Kenneth Clarke could make a united Europe sound as British as roast beef and brown ale, Major’s deputy Michael Heseltine gave it the aura of an exciting business enterprise and Tony Blair bestowed upon the project the glitter of a chic […]
[PDF file]: […] the poor and the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/ Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes […]
[PDF file]: […] Bernard Connolly, The Rotten Heart of Europe (London: Faber and Faber, 1995) John Laughland, The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European idea (London: Little and Brown, 1997) Christopher Booker and Richard North, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) 6 5 globalisation. Most recently […]
[PDF file]: […] South Shields, deep within New Labour’s North-East redoubt. Balls, with no journalistic background, landed a leader-writer job with the Financial Times before becoming Treasury adviser to Gordon Brown. Then, like Miliband with no experience of electoral politics, he was parachuted into a former mining seat in Yorkshire in 2005 near to the one his […]
[PDF file]: […] Wapping picket line, standing alongside the sacked print workers, ‘every morning for nine months’. (p. 94) Bower does not have that much to say about Blair and Brown, although it is worth noticing his explanation for the great financial crash. Gordon Brown, we are told, ‘borrowed excessive amounts so he could distribute welfare benefits, […]
[PDF file]: […] the economy than Labour.43 The lack of confidence in Labour is apparently the result of the economic crash of 2007/8. But the then NuLab government of Gordon Brown was following Conservative polices at the time of the crash: the market is magic, we need no regulation of the City and the domestic manufacturing economy […]
[…] evidence was there it could not justify the invasion, half million deaths and the subsequent lethal pollution by depleted uranium. The late Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary while Brown was Chancellor, had access to the same information and resigned in opposition to the approaching war. He said in his resignation speech: or 49 Thanks to […]
[PDF file]: […] big problem no-one wants to discuss – but we do apparently make some nice weapons. And Saudi Arabia buys them. The late Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary while Brown was Chancellor, had access to the same information and resigned in opposition to the approaching war. He said in his resignation speech: ‘Why is it now […]
[PDF file]: […] its scale was probably not. Labour’s majority in the House of Commons was larger than the entire Parliamentary Conservative Party. Defenders of Blair and his Chancellor Gordon Brown like to cite the introduction of the National Minimum Wage and to point to steady increases in public spending along with more generous welfare arrangements. The […]
