Sentences with phrase «what new labour»

I'd almost forgotten what New Labour ministers used to be like.

or not, but rather whether it is good reform (i.e. what New Labour did in its term of office) or bad reform (i.e. what the Tories are now proposing)-- even though the similarities and overlap far exceed the differences.

Tony Blair's health adviser told the health select committee in January that the changes were what New Labour would have liked to have done, had they not encountered «road blocks».

Yet you suffer from some form of cognitive dissonance with regards to what New Labour was and is.

Of course, you are right about what New Labour would have done (almost certainly) had it got back into office.

Despite his reputation for spin, Blair's book offers the fullest discussion of what New Labour was trying to do to change Britain, particularly his recognition that the party had to appeal to aspirational voters (a battle that may have to be re-fought within Labour now).

Not exact matches

Coles said the time was right for a «new team» to lead Unifor and fight back against what he called attacks on labour by the federal government.

Andy Burnham, the Labour politician who had long called for a new inquiry into what happened, commented: «This has been the greatest miscarriage of justice of our times.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thaLabour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thalabour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

What does stare us in the face and if you can not come clean then sadly this is just another new Labour rag blog, is that public cuts are coming with Labour or the Tories, the public sector will be hit hard.

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

New labour actually say very little, would blue labour Newer labour or what ever do for people at the very bottom, OK lets just say the rejects of society, in the past social housing was the life blood for these people Income support and social housing.

What is especially galling is that New Labour have retianed the preachyness of the non conformist vote the inherited without anything but sheer bossiness to back it up with.

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

Surely some of New Labour's right - wing excesses reflect an attitude that Labour can more or less do what it likes in government without alienating too much of its core progressive constituency as this constituency has nowhere else to go.

And it is those experiences, he says, which makes him «so concerned about the state of the Labour Party now and so worried for Labour MPs and what's being said and done to them, including online in new ways unthought of 30 years ago, in their constituencies.

«We're spending # 5 billion on new school places — twice what Labour spent in the previous four years,» he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.

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.

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 lLabour 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 laboNew Toy Blair, a new newer labonew newer labourlabour.

A new poll of his Sheffield constituency found the Lib Dem leader is set to lose his seat to Labour, in what would be a historic moment for the party.

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.

Perhaps what we are witnessing here, at the end of the New Labour story, is the Labour party's final abandonment of the «politics of conscience», of the protest tradition, and its full transformation into a party of executive authoritarianism.

SO what the hell is New labour about who is the core voter, I've no idea.

His vision of «stakeholding» in New Britain (1996) and Anthony Crosland's priority on the poor in The Future of Socialism (1963), what Blair calls «a magnificent essay», were different visions by Labour leaders of how to redress capitalist excess.

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.

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)...

Labour tonight claimed Clegg had blundered by prematurely setting out new, detailed conditions on what would happen if there is no clear winner in the general election — claiming he looked arrogant and self - interested.

It is, of course, possible that a lot of people don't like the proposed cuts and so disapprove of what the government is doing but are definitely * not * going to vote Labour because they have noticed that New Labour created the appalling mess that the Coalition government is trying to clean up.

But even so, it is the polluted political culture which permeates Birmingham city council — like Blackpool stamped through rock — that has rendered it a lame duck, infamous for the left hand not knowing what the right is doing; but none of this is new or limited to this current Labour leadership.

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.

What next for the New Labour believers?

Our political settlement is exhausted and Labour's Policy Review has spent two years rethinking what Labour stands for as we build a new model party.

Whenthe new immigration minister James Brokenshire attacked what he called the «wealthy, metropolitan elite» for benefiting from cheap foreign labour, it's unlikely he meant to point the finger at the Prime Minister.

What's New Labour if not social liberal?

Many Joiners hit by austerity hope a new Labour government would restore some or all of what they have lost out on.

There is little light between what we have in government now and what we had under New Labour.

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 offnew jobs for middle income groups what about the rest, we do need a New Government brown has nothing at all to offNew Government brown has nothing at all to offer.

So New Labour is now a charity what a lot of hot air, Blair felt he could get enough money by selling seats in the house of lords, sadly the sleaze got to much.

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?

What civil liberties for god sake we are watched all day spied on, told to inform on each other, what a lot of New labour cWhat civil liberties for god sake we are watched all day spied on, told to inform on each other, what a lot of New labour cwhat a lot of New labour crap.

Since leaving Labour, I have made quite a lot of new friends who have asked me what took me so long to resign.

Rather than silly Punch and Judy rhetoric about Tories it might be instructive to consider just how far and how destructively New Labour has combined a market ideology (inherited from Thatcherism, although frequently misunderstood) with a preference for social engineering once favoured by what had been the more Statist elements of the Left to create social bullying through rationing, which is what this is all about.

But what is not at all clear to me, is how his suggestion for his new rump party of Labour parliamentarians can win an election without the party activists to do it.

Now that the Tory - inclined swing voters have a strong Tory party to vote for, what use for New Labour?

One may be able to argue that, a hung parliament was what the electorate wanted, but hoped that Clegg would have allied to New Labour, bearing in mind, in theory at least, they should have been more closely related than the Chimera we now have.

What good was the HRA when New Labour's database state was being built, tourists, photographers and trainspotters were routinely treated as terrorist suspects, and the right to peaceful protest was systematically eroded until it became almost a cipher?

In her new book, the Labour MP describe her experience of growing up in Birmingham in a radical socialist family, the «trials» of her teenage and student years — and «what it means to be a woman today».

Labour lessons on Acast: Paul Mason: What should new members do now?

But New Labour have eroded two distinctions, both of which are relevant to what that label means.

What we will be doing shortly, when we come forward with our response to the Browne report, is install new measures that will ensure that the way in which students go to university is fairer and less punitive on those who are disadvantaged than the system that we inherited from the Labour party.»