[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]: […] of the Kremlin. Steele emphasises the Putin regime’s commitment to supporting authoritarianism and encouraging division throughout the West. As for his own political trajectory, he had supported Blair and New Labour, voting for them in 1997 and 2001, but was opposed to the Iraq War. Indeed, the invasion was one of the factors that […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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. 14 15 John Hoskyns, Just In Time: inside the Thatcher revolution (London: Aurum, 2000) p. 107. He records […]
[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 […]
[…] 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.17 […]
[…] 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]: […] change in their relationship to the US and the global market.10 This actuality was disguised, as it had been during the See for example Scott Newton, ‘ Blair and Gladstone’, Lobster 42 (2001/2), or . 7 8 Gallagher and Robinson (see note 4) p. 13. 9 Cain and Hopkins (see note 3) pp. 285-6. […]
[PDF file]: […] decisive freeing up of market competition in Britain starting in the 1980s. The success was dramatic and to its credit, ‘New Labour’ under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown embraced the new freedoms, tempering their party’s historical Fabian socialist ethos with a fresh emphasis on opportunity. Britain has welcomed foreign investment and […]
