They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old
New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform.
The trade union is putting forward a resolution at Labour Party conference to «outlaw»
the New Labour think tank from the party.
Too often we in
New Labour thought that the mixture of being in the right policy position, uttering the right language and relying on Tony's charisma was enough.
Not exact matches
If you're
thinking of tackling a
new goal — like running 5K into the office every day — you may consider starting after a birthday or
Labour Day, or even on a regular Monday to ensure you follow through.
But if that innovation itself requires
labour to
think up the
new idea, test it, and implement it, then high wages increase the costs of innovation too.
Using concepts from a long time ago,
thought of by another society to set - up a relatively
new country and doing so on the backs of slave
labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.
I am
new to your facebook page and even
newer to your blog... I
think that perhaps this soldier for Christ is harvesting the fruits of his
labours.
Alongside this stream of modern philosophic and scientific
thought, we have the Christian Church,
labouring hard to preserveher inheritance and at last gaining a little in Europe, but mainly because of the bitter fruits already ripening in the communist - atheist countries, not because of any
new stirring from within herself.
The
new and awful discoveries made of the polluting and murderous nature of their superstitions, in writings of unquestioning authority, with the success of the missionary
labours of the excellent men of other denominations already employed there, the committee
think ought to be considered as special calls upon British Christians to increase the means of acquainting their natives of India with their divine religion; and to persevere in the glorious toil, until the name of Christ shall be sounded throughout the vast extent of our oriental dominion, and one God and Saviour shall be worshipped by every subject of the British throne.4
It was
thought that
labour pains were never as bad as people imagine and the excitement of your
new arrival should help you barely notice the pain.
(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.
I don't
think there are many who relish another Tory Government, but frankly, when you have «
New Nazi» in power for 12 long and bloody years (Iraq & Afghan Wars) you get to the stage where absolutely ANYONE BUT
LABOUR will do.
I also
thought to definehimself against
New Labour, as opposed to being a development of
New Labour, was electorally unwise.
I
think the discussion of the 2 republicanisms, and 2 communitarianisms can help social democrats come up with policies to improve public services like education, healthcare, and identify
new labour laws worth implementing.
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.
A fellow - traveler in
New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of
New York, and wrote in his first message to its members that he, too,
thought that the great evil was the rise of modern servitude in the form of wage
labour: «For he, in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.
Does anyone
think we would be reforming electoral system an outcome desired by no - one, if
New labour had won.
Incidentally you can check the figures in your
new chum Peter Oborne's book the Rise of Political Lying in which he charts the addiction of New \ Labour to systematic misinformation and explains why it is they are so much worse than the Conservative s Party I think you will find you lame - ass weak sheeeet over in the cocked hat into which I have knocked it bitch (Just watched the wire..
new chum Peter Oborne's book the Rise of Political Lying in which he charts the addiction of
New \ Labour to systematic misinformation and explains why it is they are so much worse than the Conservative s Party I think you will find you lame - ass weak sheeeet over in the cocked hat into which I have knocked it bitch (Just watched the wire..
New \
Labour to systematic misinformation and explains why it is they are so much worse than the Conservative s Party I
think you will find you lame - ass weak sheeeet over in the cocked hat into which I have knocked it bitch (Just watched the wire....)
Labour's
new candidate, Debbie Abrahams, does not deliver the usual confident prediction of a sweeping victory when asked if she
thinks she's going to win.
I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do
think people will see
Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer l
Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a
New Toy Blair, a new newer labo
New Toy Blair, a
new newer labo
new newer labourlabour.
I
think it's time for
new labour to walk away and form it's own party, a party they can set up and make it's own, they can have parachutes to dump people all over the place offering people seats for money shit they tried that.
This was not a
new goal, but as Blair makes clear,
Labour thinking before him had grown stale.
I
think a lesson of the
New Labour years is that major advances can not be delivered merely by a well - intentioned party political elite acting in isolation from the «militant and formidible» democracy Tawney spoke of.
No doubt there are plenty of Blairite and Brownite true believers still out there deluded enough to
think they can re-brand
New Labour... (Ultra
Labour,
Labour Extra,
Labour Excel....?).
I have to admit, I
think this
new widget by the
Labour party poking fun at Tory hypocrisy is rather amusing (via Tom Miller).
I
think you're somehow confusing
New Labour under Blair as being «Left» in politics, and also ignoring the separate and non-mutually exclusive aspect of nationalism.
We may learn little if, before anybody has properly studied this complex election, everybody just says what they
thought already, repeating their favourite leftist or
New Labour mantras, about losing C2s over immigration, or failing to inspire with
Labour values.
Tony Blair doesn't
think much of the
new leader of the
Labour Party.
There is a fair chance the
new Scottish
Labour leadership team will be totally at odds with Corbyn's socialist principles: Kezia Dugdale
thinks that «too often in the recent past it has looked like we are only on the side of... the most vulnerable in society.»
«I
thought there had been enough of an opening up of debate under Ed [Miliband] that if Jeremy was on the ballot paper we would do quite well,» Jon Lansman, a close adviser of the
Labour leader and chair of the pro-Corbyn Momentum group, told the
New Statesman recently.
Both of these, in the form of a manifesto commitment to a referendum on electoral reform, and as an exploration of the stake - holding idea espoused by Will Hutton among others, had already entered «
New Labour»
thinking.
Your idea that we must only deal with people whose past passes some
New Labour test calls to mind so many what - aboutaries that I struggle to survive the snow storm, just what sort of a ridiculous argument do you
think you are making?
I
think you lot must be in the London bubble, you can not see how far down the road
New Labour has gone.
I
think Unions worked a blinder with
New Labour.
God I
think some of you are still in the
new labour dream world, would Labour win the next election if called tomorrow, it would be close but it would be
labour dream world, would
Labour win the next election if called tomorrow, it would be close but it would be
Labour win the next election if called tomorrow, it would be close but it would be hung.
With the
new leader of Ukip, Paul Nuttall, being spoken about as a threat to the party in the North, how does he
think Labour should reconnect with its core voters?
Yet, even with the influx of all these
new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and
thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a
Labour victory in May 2015.
I
think I can say without fear of being proved wrong that
New Labour will not be repealing no Bedroom Tax.
The average age of
Labour Party members is generally
thought to be around 52 although a recent estimate suggested that the influx of
new members since the general election has seen that fall to 42.
So a
new report from the
think - tank Civitas, launched by veteran
Labour MP Frank Field and parliamentary researcher Andrew Forsey, should be given credit for positive
thinking.
In fact, some 40 % of the
new members
think that the current
Labour leadership respects ordinary members «a lot» compared to only 16 % of older members believing that was the case in May 2015.
The idea that the right to move would seriously impact on people «to stand up against antisocial behaviour» is wishful
thinking of the worse
new Labour style.
The Global Sustainability Institute and the Green
New Deal Group were among the
think - tanks and pressure groups which signed a letter to the Guardian warning the
Labour leader not to «play the next election safe».
I imagine we might also be able to
think of some less
New Labour arguments for such an approach too.
Whatever people may
think of
New Labour's achievements, faults and mistakes, there is an enormous difference between the timidity with which a government with a majority of 170 + proceeded in its first term, carefully implementing its incremental manifesto but always looking over its shoulder in search of the «daily mandate», and the astonishing bullishness of this Coalition despite the hung parliament.
New Labour might not be dead, as Gordon Brown insisted yesterday, but you might have
thought his 350 - odd MPs had at least entered some sort of coma given the amount of noise they made during Darling's Budget statement.
I
think New Labour definitely tried to take us away from a class - orientated perspective.
I always
thought it did matter to report the internecine battles within the government, not least because they often paralysed Whitehall or led to bad decision - making that was to the detriment of both the country and
New Labour itself.
Mr Healey will be reacting to a report from the
New Local Government Network, a
think tank overseen by former
Labour minister Chris Leslie.