[PDF file]: […] some of his (unexceptional) thoughts on the event in the Guardian.39 The only really interesting bit in Darling’s memoir showed the reader how he and prime minister Brown had perceived things at the time: ‘When I went across to see Gordon in the flat that evening, I told him that nationalization was looking increasingly […]
[…] a part of it, but and or 29 Still widely available on-line. See the review at or . Author interview at or . 30 11 Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.31 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[PDF file]: […] reactions to his first Cabinet, to the government of all the talents concept, to his healthcare policy . . . and to his education policy.’ 4 Later, Brown would cast his long-term pollster Deborah Mattinson out of his magic circle. She seemed too insistent on telling him things he didn’t want to know, not […]
[PDF file]: […] and troops? While these were undoubtedly factors, they affected how the unwinnable war unfolded rather than having any direct effect on the inevitable outcome. The Blair and Brown governments deserve censure for getting involved at all, rather than for somehow losing the war. It is worth briefly noticing here the dramatic falling out between […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
