[PDF file]: […] who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats (Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was now Labour in […]
[PDF file]: […] the availability of this weaponry allowed loyalist killings to exceed republican killings by 1992. Cory ordered that independent public enquiries should be held into the killings. The Blair government responded by passing the Inquiries Act (2005), something strongly opposed by Cory, who noted ‘For example, the Minister, the actions of whose ministry was to […]
[…] 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.53 […]
[PDF file]: […] like – God help us! – Liz Truss). Doubtless this is the real reason for the removal of the whip: divide and conquer. 2 These being Tony Blair , Gordon Brown and David Cameron . 3 It is quite possible that he had/has someone managing his social media. 4 1 eerily quiet.5 It was […]
[…] we could isolate Northern Rock’s problems and partly because, ever since the 1970s, the Labour Party had been losing elections on the question of economic competence. Tony Blair and I had spent twenty years building New Labour on the foundation of market competition, private enterprise, and economic stability as the the path to Adam […]
[PDF file]: […] the top Tory job, equally ambitious Starmer was mirroring in his bid to replace Corbyn. Eagleton suggests that the leftover coterie of New Labour Remainers – Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, Lord Mandelson – and their media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 general election. Starmer had been […]
[PDF file]: […] has occasionally been used by Prime Ministers to put trouble-makers in a position of power that keeps them away from home as much as possible. (Remember the Blair cabinet and Robin Cook?) As the Foreign Secretary of Harold Wilson’s first cabinet, George Brown was famous for regularly being the worse for wear following a […]
[PDF file]: […] dropped by Macmillan (in 1958) in favour of co-operation with the US and the last solely UK-built and maintained nuclear weapons, free fall bombs, were scrapped by Blair in 1998. Britain now borrows its nuclear deterrent from the US, and would have to consult it prior to its use, this arrangement being cheaper than […]
[PDF file]: […] any congressional authorisation and funding’. Alongside the use of torture, the US Special Forces were let off the leash to use ‘assassination as a standard tactic’. The Blair government, and Jack Straw in particular, claim they knew absolutely nothing about any of this and only a complete cynic could possibly think otherwise. From that […]
[…] 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.43 […]
