But in the absence of any attempt to do so
I see New Labour written all over him.
After Nick Clegg said «in words of one syllable» that the Human Rights Act «is here to stay», home secretary Theresa May responded this week by saying she'd like to
see the New Labour legislation scrapped.
The result
saw New Labour shift to bigger spending.
Not exact matches
While B.C. signed the
New West Partnership Trade Agreement in 2010 pledging to «remove barriers to trade, investment and
labour mobility» between western provinces, Clark's demands pose the biggest barrier to interprovincial trade this country has
seen for a long time.
The financial sector wins at the point where you don't
see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over
labour, over industry, to create a
new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.
Just in from Paris, some fascinating quotables from the OECD: Governments must do more to help workers adapt to
new global economy, says OECD Rather than
seeing globalisation as a threat, OECD governments should focus on improving
labour regulations and social protection systems to help people adapt to changing job markets.
We are
seeing relatively strong
labour market conditions in the United States, consumers are confident, and the rate of
new firm creation is back near pre-recession levels.
We have
seen with
New Labour and the Lisbon Treaty that this is not now so.
I am not advocating that we bloat the Lords back to numbers last
seen before
New Labour reforms.
He now
sees himself as one of the few lobbyists who really knows what is happening in the
new - look
Labour party.
11:49 - George Eustice, the Tory MP who used to be Cameron's spin doctor in chief, bugs the now very long - winded Ian Davidson for being part of the «better late than never» group of
Labour MPs who belatedly opposed
New Labour's plans to join the euro (
Labour Against The Euro, you
see).
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.
Like in the past,
new policy innovations are currently being explored to find
new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual
labour, as can be
seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.
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.
We shall
see if the Tories & LDs can continue to sing from the same sheet for much longer, but there may come a point (preferably after the AV referendum) that
Labour's best strategy for avoiding another welfare - smashing lockout in opposition is to not take another state retrenchment (after Thatcher) lying down, & to agitate for the collapse of the Coalition, for a
new Parliament, & a chance to reduce the deficit in a much cleverer, & less crude manner.
And I
see from today's Observer that David Miliband has also gone for the parody vote: «
New Labour,» he declares, «isn't new any mo
New Labour,» he declares, «isn't
new any mo
new any more.
But if there is a lesson to be learned from turning back to the insights of
New Labour's road not taken, it is in
seeing that economic reform and political reform are closely intertwined.
I can't
see the Libdem grassroots taking too nicely to the idea to be honest, unless
New Labour drop a lot more civil liberties projects and simplify the notoriously bad tax system.
The changing of Clause IV was
seen by political commentators as the defining moment at which Old
Labour became
New Labour.
New Labour didn't
see — with sufficient clarity — the downsides of globalization.
A former
Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the
New Labour years and is now
seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.
Burnham's decision to stand for the
new post was
seen by many as a signal that for ambitious
Labour politicians, the place of power may no longer be in Westminster but rather the combined authorities — with all the powers they carry.
You
see, this is my problem with
New Labour's coming grail - quest to re-invent itself.
In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was
seen as closely associated with
New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself.
I think you lot must be in the London bubble, you can not
see how far down the road
New Labour has gone.
I wish the
new Labour leader well and would ask him to join us on the streets with the working class people who are taking a stand against social cleansing but for now it remains to be
seen whether the rest of his party will follow his lead.
Ofsted and the Department for Education are releasing details about the proposed changes, which are being presented as a response to the «dumbing down» of exams
seen under
New Labour.
Some within the
Labour Party
see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats as «the ultimate fulfilment of the
New Labour mission'to re-organise British politics and weaken the
Labour Party.
His finest hours came with his awe - inspiring demolition job of the Government's fatuous annual report, one the finest Parliamentary performances of recent times — and just maybe the moment when the nation began to
see the truth about
New Labour.
10th May 2017, Washington Post: Britain's
Labour Party is
seeing a flood of
new members.
For
Labour the downward trend of support
seen under
New Labour continued at this election — but at a lesser rate than in the Blair years.
But still, how depressing to find far too many
Labour people who
see themselves as the party's custodians failing to do anything
new, moping their way into the
new year — and blaming anyone but themselves.
For one thing,
New Labour's triangulation strategy, which
saw it adopting distinctly right - wing policies, was admired by the City of London, industry and most of the Westminster media but actually served to alienate many voters.
According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are
seen as toxic by
New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».
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.
While swing voters wanted
Labour to acknowledge its mistakes, most in the movement wanted to
see the
new leader defend the party's record.
He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary
New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be
seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».
I just don't
see what has changed about
Labour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise res
Labour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of
new members who were so happy to be morally superior to
labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise res
labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise restarts.
The Conservatives have overtaken
Labour as the party voters would most like to
see run the NHS and the education system, a
new poll reveals.
High Peak
saw Caitlin Bisknell elected the leader of a
new Labour administration, which will take minority control.
The way I
see it is that
Labour must not revert to «Old
Labour» or «Old
New Labour».
In the UK, Machiavelli has sometimes (
see Jonathan Powell's recent exploration) been used to both defend and attack the perceived excesses of
New Labour's modus operandi.
Under
New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who
saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.
As was the position before Tony Blair resigned, we once again have a known unknown ahead of us — we know that in mid-December the Liberal Democrats will have a
new leader, but we can't know until then what effect it will have on people's voting intentions — it may have none, it may
see the Lib Dems taking support back off
Labour, or off the Conservatives.
In what may be
seen as an attempt to counter the strong support for Mr Corbyn among
new Labour members, Ms Eagle issued her own plea to the public to sign up to the party, saying:
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.
New Labour didn't
see with sufficient clarity the downsides of globalisation.
«Our ambitious insulation plan will
see the next
Labour government take real action against fuel poverty, making homes cheaper to heat, improving people's health by improving our housing, creating
new jobs and reducing carbon emissions.
But how would you feel if as someone paying the same stealth taxes as you,
sees the same senior citizens lying on hospital trolleys, doesn't have enough money for heating (let alone a peerage) and weren't even asked to support the great «master plan» of the
New Labour Dual - Monarchy?
New Labour was first termed as an alternative branding for the
Labour Party, dating from a conference slogan first used by the
Labour Party in 1994, which was later
seen in a draft manifesto published by the party in 1996, called
New Labour,
New Life For Britain.