[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]: […] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]
[…] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]
[PDF file]: […] and the two men became friends.5 A month later the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, and Blair won the leadership election contest with Gordon Brown – in some accounts with financial 1 See for example . 2 See the profile of Michael Levy in the Daily Express 26 June 2000. 3 […]
[…] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]
