[PDF file]: […] – was rising before 2008 and is caused by UK taxes being too low. But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes. While in office Blair, Brown and Balls encouraged the delusion that the UK could have American levels of taxation and EU levels of public services. Apologising for that and the […]
[…] New Labour, he really gives the game away. While he sources more in this book than in his weekly Observer column, there’s still too much referenced as ‘Blair inner circle’ and ‘interviews, senior officers’ to accept this as anything like a historical record. What it does manage to do is confirm the New Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] are desperately seeking refuge in Britain, in which case they are maligned and abused. (p. 8) Looking back on the invasion of Iraq, he insists that the Blair government was not dragged reluctantly into the conflict – a poodle on a lead, so to speak – but was energetically urging an interventionist policy on […]
[PDF file]: The Lexit delusion Scott Newton The question of Britain’s relationship to the EU has been a real problem for the Labour Party since the 2016 referendum. Does its result offer the British Left a great opportunity to break free from the restrictions which come with membership of the organization and tie the nation to a […]
[PDF file]: […] New Labour, he really gives the game away. While he sources more in this book than in his weekly Observer column, there’s still too much referenced as ‘Blair inner circle’ and ‘interviews, senior officers’ to accept this as anything like a historical record. What it does manage to do is confirm the New Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] her then ‘progressive’ views on child sexuality, and fed it to The Daily Telegraph.10 TB’s associates Meanwhile Tony Blair’s commercial activities are expanding rapidly. His ‘consultancy’, Tony Blair Associates, now employs 80 people, according to an article by Edward Heathcote-Amory 8 <http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Study-reveals-true-extentof.5230278.jp 9 The Mail spotted that Mandelson was wearing a watch which cost […]
[…] on economic policy, which in turn was required to demonstrate a break with the perceived failure of Labour’s economic record of the past.’ (emphases added) So: the Blair government had to demonstrate to the City its ‘fitness to govern’ and thus acquired ‘permission’ to do so. Why is this necessary? Because of the ‘perceived […]
[PDF file]: […] that working for the Occupation changed her. How does she deal with this? The narrative device she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was […]
[PDF file]: […] grip of German bankers intent on preaching protestant rectitude to ill-disciplined countries – which amounted to every country apart from itself, and even itself at times. Thatcher, Blair and Brown The policy choices that the UK made and then induced the EU to follow, were promoting globalisation and reducing protectionism through Thatcherism, and then […]
[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.3 […]
