To present a fresh face and new policies to the electorate,
New Labour needed more than fresh leaders; it had to jettison outdated policies, argued the modernisers.
Therefore
New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).
New Labour needs to be in the ground before I'll reach for my # 1.
We who created
New Labour need to be far more self - critical.
Not exact matches
But after a series of difficult
labour negotiations under CEO Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada finally obtained the concessions it
needed last year to hire
new employees at reduced pay for a low - cost carrier to target the vacation market.
At the second stage, you will
need to apply to Immigration Refugees, and Citizenship Canada for a
new work permit with the permission obtained by your employer, which can take the form of a Provincial Nomination Certificate, positive
Labour Market Impact Assessment decision or approval under the Global Talents Stream of the TFWP, for instance.
«The sooner there is some level of certainty over the availability of skilled
labour needed by the housebuilding sector, the sooner more investment can be committed to building
new homes,» comments Justin Gaze, Joint Head of Residential Development.
«On International Workers» Day this year, lets renew our commitment to push for positive change that will benefit all workers,» says Patrick Colford, President of the
New Brunswick Federation of
Labour, «With this year being an election year, we
need to make sure that our elected representatives are accountable for improving fairness and making sure that economic prosperity benefits everyone.»
A
new WHO guideline, launched today, contains 56 evidence - based recommendations detailing both the clinical and non-clinical care that is
needed throughout
labour and immediately afterwards for women and for newborns.
The Healthy Pregnancy Book takes you month - by - month through your pregnancy, answering all the questions you have about your baby's development, your own body's physical and emotional changes, medical technology you might
need during pregnancy and childbirth, how to prepare for
labour and delivery, and those first days at home with your
new baby.
The book concludes by introducing a
new birth chair designed around women's
need for physical support in the hospital delivery room, during
labour as well as for the birth, a design that will encourage women to adopt a more positive upright attitude to bringing their babies into the world.
(A fault of
New Labour was that, in 1996 - 97 it was sometimes good at broadening the sense of who was included in the nation to bring in those Tebbit seemed to reject, and its critics may not realise that this was important at the time, yet it also seemed to think it
needed to reject those with an attachment to tradition or history to do so in the name of perennial
New - ness.
FoE director Tony Juniper said: «
New policies are urgently
needed to cut UK emissions, which have risen under
Labour despite promises of substantial cuts.
But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the
need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups as avidly as
New Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how
Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.
«
New Labour was right for its time but we
need to move on, and all the attacks on me from the
New Labour establishment have helped crystallise that message,» he argues.
Both Cameron and Clegg
need to remind and reinforce to the Conservatives and the Lib Dems why they are in coalition, and the
new Labour leader
needs to reassure a movement that they can supply hope, comfort and electoral credibility.
New Labour figures believe any move to the left makes the party unelectable, but many figures in the party think voters
need a decisive break with the past if they are to put their faith in
Labour again.
I agree that the redistributive settlement
needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as
New Labour did.
David Blunkett, the former
New Labour home secretary, says the debate so far has already established the
need for «time to do this properly».
I've argued on my own blog (http://hands-of-the-many.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-
labour-will-change-be-moderate-or.html) that
New Labour represented an understandable compromise with the upper class so that the overwhelming hostility to the party in the press would be lessened, and the party could communicate its message to a wider audience - and then, build the coalition which brought the party to office, and enabled the much -
needed social democratic reforms to take place.
What
Labour needs is a
new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.
No, what struck me about my year at the heart of
New Labour, was the dedication of my colleagues, and the endless checklist of things we
needed to complete to ensure victory.
Shadow Home Office minister David Hanson said that
Labour would consider supporting May's proposals but said they would
need longer to consider the impact of any
new legislation.
«Jeremy is owed a debt of gratitude for helping
Labour to rediscover its radical routes, but we do
need a
new generation of
Labour men and women to take this party forward, to get us ready for government once more.
A serving
Labour minister with a future stands up and says managerialism and triangulation are bad,
New Labour is basically over, that
Labour needs to be a movement again — gives tentative respect to the Iraq war marches, and says more public service reform and tax credits won't solve the challenges of a liveable decent society.
The fact is that the
New Labour governments were well to the right of the vast majority of
Labour supporters, and clearly
needed correction, but let that pass.
«That's a shared responsibility and a shared burden and you don't
need to create a
new faction in the
Labour party which has been susceptible to entryists and which has at times resembled the mob.»
He is perceived to be on the right of the party and might pull support from those who still identify with
New Labour, but he would
need to construct a broader appeal.
Social mobility died a death now
Labour is talking crap about 1000,000
new jobs for middle income groups what about the rest, we do need a New Government brown has nothing at all to off
new jobs for middle income groups what about the rest, we do
need a
New Government brown has nothing at all to off
New Government brown has nothing at all to offer.
Labour needs mechanisms to ensure every
new leader is elected in a contest amongst plp, members and affiliated societies.
The
new group would
need a rulebook, and might in the short term simply adopt the existing
Labour Party rules, and amend these over time.
«
Labour would seek to negotiate a
new comprehensive UK - EU customs union to ensure that there are no tariffs with Europe and to help avoid any
need for a hard border in Northern Ireland,» the
Labour leader said in February.
When the Tories were then hit by sleaze and a
new change was
needed, the public chose the
Labour alternative because it was a much improved alternative.
During the three - month
Labour leadership campaign, the debate increasingly addressed the failings of
New Labour and the polices
needed to rebuild
Labour's support.
And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense, how
New Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy
needs at home.
After the Tory government had wrapped up its sex education policy, touchy - feely
New Labour showed up - and decided even more was
needed.
Instead it
needs to transform into «
New New Labour» or «
New Old
Labour».
Norcott's house building metaphor, seeking to highlight the
need for both a left and right wing, lands some weighty blows on
Labour's
new leader.
Talking to a Brick Wall: How
New Labour Stopped Listening to the Voter and Why We
Need a
New Politics is out now, published by Biteback, # 17.99
What we now
need is a
new plan like
Labour's five point plan for jobs and growth.
It comes as a series of
new polls suggest that the party are making no progress in the marginal seats they
need to win from
Labour in order to form the next government.
If
Labour need to make a break from
New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within
Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.
«I talk to members on all wings of the
Labour Party, the
new members, the old members, the members on the left, the members on the right, and they all say Jeremy's got a mandate and we
need to respect it.
But on such matters as the importance of the family, the
need to clean up Westminster - and, yes, until yesterday on Europe - his gut instincts have been far closer than
New Labour's to the views of ordinary electors.
In place of
Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we
need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over
new school places.
Another
Labour MSP, Elaine Smith, has backed Mr Rowley's call saying the party
needs «
new direction.»
now Immigration the boarders
need to close and well will do it because we are
New labour.
Less than 10 days after the 2015 general election the
Labour leader in the House of Lords said that party
needed a break clause with their
new leader in 2018.
But
Labour MP Wes Streeting warned the group «increasingly looks, acts and sounds like the
new Militant tendency in the
Labour Party and that is not what we
need.
By now you'll be on the point of spotting a trend, so we
need not wait for Gordon Brown's memoirs to summarise the reactions of
New Labour's senior figures to an account whose veracity none of them appears to dispute in any significant way.