[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Bernard Connolly, The Rotten Heart of Europe (London: Faber and Faber, 1995) John Laughland, The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European idea (London: Little and Brown, 1997) Christopher Booker and Richard North, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) 6 5 globalisation. Most recently […]
[PDF file]: […] South Shields, deep within New Labour’s North-East redoubt. Balls, with no journalistic background, landed a leader-writer job with the Financial Times before becoming Treasury adviser to Gordon Brown. Then, like Miliband with no experience of electoral politics, he was parachuted into a former mining seat in Yorkshire in 2005 near to the one his […]
[PDF file]: […] same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads us in […]
[PDF file]: […] to resign from No 10 and become special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, Mandelson had mended some of his broken fences with successor Gordon Brown. He returned from Brussels to join Brown’s Labour Cabinet as the unelected Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool. But he was already working hard for his […]
[…] Ed Balls’ speech to conference on 22 September. The penny has dropped that some sort of apology needs to be made for the mess he and Gordon Brown created when they were last in office. This would play well with the electorate: a politician’s admission of error is so rare that it would be […]
[PDF file]: […] Ed Balls’ speech to conference on 22 September. The penny has dropped that some sort of apology needs to be made for the mess he and Gordon Brown created when they were last in office. This would play well with the electorate: a politician’s admission of error is so rare that it would be […]
[PDF file]: […] New Labour government was through Gordon Brown’s younger brother Andrew, who joined EDF Energy, as head of media relations. (He is now director of corporate communications.) Andrew Brown previously worked for Weber Shandwick, where Philip Dewhurst – now Director of Corporate Affairs at British Nuclear Fuels – was the UK Chief Executive. (Private Eye […]
[PDF file]: […] see Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. 18 7 happens when you […]
