[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]: […] High-Living Baker Boy Scandalizes the Capital’, p. 32. It referred to her as ‘the German call girl’. 48 Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997), pp. 387-390. the Soviet embassy.49 To Hoover, this intelligence recalled the sensational Profumo affair then grabbing headlines in Great Britain. The British scandal eventually prompted […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 It was all […]
[PDF file]: […] received view of New Labour’s rush to the till-deathdo-us-part section of those vows has at its core the perpetual 1 Sunday Telegraph 3 March 2002 acrimony between Brown and Blair, which paralysed decisionmaking and split the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party, and the Civil Service. Of course there is ample evidence to support that […]
[PDF file]: […] the poor and the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/ Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes […]
[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.18 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[PDF file]: […] question. All they would have to do is shut up Tom Watson MP! Indeed, Murdoch has actually let it be known that he wanted to back Gordon Brown at the general election, but was persuaded by young James and Rebekah Brooks that Cameron was the coming man. This, one suspects, is a decision that […]
[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.14 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[PDF file]: […] we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old Labour. He says nationalising Lloyds/HBOS was ‘the last thing I wanted…. bringing with it all the […]
