Sentences with phrase «really new labour»

But if he did pretend it fooled enough of the electorate who thought he was too left wing, so they voted Tory, I can't believe that the electorate looked at Ed, said, Ah, he's only pretending to have spent the last 5 years denouncing New labour, let the 2 people who got him in place, Mkclusky and Paul Kenny, get Blaitites Liam Byrne, Frank fileld sacked, then say as opposed to new labour he had a social conscience, yet when it comes to it, he's really new labour as he's not left wing enough, I'll vote for a party who are right wing, they'd have all voted greens if they wanted it

Not exact matches

He now sees himself as one of the few lobbyists who really knows what is happening in the new - look Labour party.

I joined the Conservative Party in 1996 at the height of New Labour's popularity, so these manuals really grated with me at the time.

Labour really has declared war on Murdoch when a real New Labour grandee joins the attack.

A written constitution for Britain is something that neither the New Labour nor any other Parliament has ever really wanted.

But there is definitely a discernable (not even covert really) toying with «virtual party» ideas among one specific element of New Labour (you wrongly seem to assume there is monolithic «high command» rather than different strands on the right of the party) and that very much links in to primaries as a way of moving beyond a European - style party structure and towards an American system.

Labour faces some important risks if Nick Clegg really does become the new princess diana.

After all, your luck would really, really be in if your political opponents had declared the death of New Labour, vacated the centre - ground of British politics, abandoned Middle England and all the rest of the things you have all been saying over the last 48 hours.

Well there is a theory the reason New Labour have held onto the ID cards is because they can offer to drop that to appease the LibDems rather than give them what they really want (electoral reform)...

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

This is not really surprising; when Peter Mandelson said, in 1998, that New Labour was «intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich», he really meant it.

What any politics fan really wants from this memoir is a picture of her personality and how New Labour's righteous smugness fits in with it.

winning the centre ground a consensus on education and health as New labour suggested was a joke, that really concerned the Tories (not)

Miliband said he was «learning the lessons of where New Labour went wrong with the really super-rich», but denied that he would ever raise the top rate of income tax about 50 %.

Her on - screen confidence and behind - the - scenes negotiations won the day against some of New Labour's most draconian proposals and kept the flame alive when it seemed as if no - one really cared about civil liberties anymore.

It is entitled «The End of New Labour, No It Really is All Over, It Is Much Worse Than You Think».

Iain Dale: Derek Draper's new Labour website is gathering publicity, but does he really understand the blogosphere?

I agree that experiences such as the London mayoral vote, encouraged in part by an AV system, was good for pluralism but let's not forget that this new culture was really underpinned by Labour and Green co-operation in the Greater London Authority, forced on them by PR.

«Is he really «New Labour Lite», a Tory wolf in Lib Dem sheep's clothing, or a Lib Dem sheep leading a pack of Tory wolves?

We are also entitled to ask where, if Labour is really committed to the new politics, are any of the other measures deemed essential by reformers, such as sorting out the House of Lords, devolving power to local government, a written constititution, more representative MPs in terms of gender and race, and state funding of political parties?

Indeed, it is a supreme irony that many of the SDP's ideas only really became influential when championed by New Labour modernisers.

Activists can not be blamed for asking: will the new New Labour party really be able to unite behind a man so unafraid of pinning his colours to the manew New Labour party really be able to unite behind a man so unafraid of pinning his colours to the maNew Labour party really be able to unite behind a man so unafraid of pinning his colours to the mast?

If Labour do get closer to the Conservatives in the polls (or indeed overtake them) in the new year, then Gordon Brown really should call an election there and then.

What's really important is that, in future, Labour does have leadership elections, not coronations, when it needs to, and that the process ensures that future Labour Leaders do not lose touch with both the party and its supporters as happened in the New Labour years.

The seat will disappear under boundary changes, and its history really falls into two stages — a safe Labour seat until Tristram Hunt was parachuted in before the 2010 election, and the collapse of turnout and reduction of the Labour vote to a minority in the era after New Labour took control.

They peddle the notion that the party founded to represent this class no longer does, as the Greens propagate the idea that a leader who has explicitly repudiated New Labour throughout his leadership is not really left wing.

In his Fabian essay, Ed Miliband writes: «You really don't need to be a Bennite to believe that this [research] represents a crisis of working - class representation for Labour — and our electability... Because of my rejection of this New Labour nostalgia I am the modernising candidate in this election.»

Well the New Zealand Labour Party has just formed the government and their Education Minister Chris Hipkins, who I was really pleased to host in Hamilton House a few years ago, has moved decisively to abandon national tests and to bring the charter schools back under democratic control.

This kind of mentality, shared by many of these spaces, proves that, even in New York City — yes, Brooklyn is part of it — art really can be a labour of love, even when it can't pay the bills.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how this new project develops — congratulations to the Employment and Labour Law Student's Society Blog.

That being the case the Friday before Labour Day weekend is like New Year's Eve and my tradition for academic New Year's Eve is to take a look at the incoming class of law students to see what their mindset is and try to figure out how to relate to them (I dropped my Dragnet reference with regards to legal writing «just the facts» years ago, which was a shame because I really liked that one).