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Tuesday, 12 June 2001 |
Editorial note: The following is a full version of the shorter article we
published on 8 June on the British election.
Labour has won the elections with a majority of 167 seats at Westminster,
only
slightly down on last time when they won a landslide majority of
179 seats. On the face of it, it is an outstanding triumph for Tony
Blair. But these results do not adequately express the contradictory
nature of the mood in British society. The mood of the masses is
sceptical. The working class is disappointed and frustrated with
New Labour. Despite Labour's landslide victory, the underlying
mood is extremely volatile. |
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Thursday, 31 May 2001 |
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On 7th June, the people of Britain will go to the polls to elect the next government. According
to all the polls Labour is set to gain a hefty majority over the Conservatives. The polls
show that Labour is now leading the Tories by a massive 28 points. Yet the election
campaign has been as dead as a Dodo, and the great majority show little interest and less
enthusiasm for either New Labour or the Tories. The general election turnout is likely to be
low - some have even predicted the lowest for over 100 years. The reason for this alleged
"voter apathy" is not hard to find. |
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Friday, 05 May 2000 |
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A first look at the electoral disaster for the Labour Party in the
council elections and
Ken Livingstone's victory in the London Mayoral contest. |
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Tuesday, 19 October 1999 |
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We hear a lot about the Third Way these days. But
does this represent anything new or
is it just the socialdemocrats recognising that there is no
longer any room for manouvre?
Barbara Humphries looks at where these ideas come from
and what do they really mean. |
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Monday, 08 June 1998 |
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In August 1931 the Labour prime minister, Ramsay
MacDonald, crossed the floor of the
Commons with a handful of supporters to join with the
Tories and Liberals in forming a
National Government. This event was considered one of the
greatest betrayals in the
history of the Labour Party. More than sixty-five years later,
voices have once again been
raised about the need for a radical realignment of British
politics and the formation of
some kind of coalition. "If Blair is the Ramsay
MacDonald of the Nineties,"
warns the Observer, "he could be getting his National
Government in early as
well." (24/9/95). Tony Benn has also recently drawn
parallells between today and the
period of 1929-31 and the formation of the National
Government. |
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Thursday, 08 January 1998 |
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The recent rebellion against the Lbour government's
decission to cut single parent benefit
and the growing disquiet about proposals to cut benefits
for the sick and disabled have
brought the welfare to work programme into sharp focus.
Mick Brooks looks at what is all
about, adn asks the important question: can it create real
jobs or is just another way of
massaging the statistics and reducing the social security
budget? |
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Friday, 02 May 1997 |
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Labour has scored an historic landslide victory in the 1997 general election. The scale
of the Tory defeat is unparalleled in modern history. In the words of former Tory cabinet
minister, Douglas Hurd, "this is a meltdown." In fact meltdown is probably a
vast underestimation of the hole the Tories now find themselves in. Only the Duke of
Wellington has presided over a worse defeat for the Tories - and that was in 1832! |
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Friday, 02 May 1997 |
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The Tories have finally been driven from office! Humiliated, they have scuttled from
power. It was an earth-shattering defeat that will open a new round of bitter civil war
over who will succeed John Major. Every worker who has lost their job, every young person
who has been denied a future, all those who have been driven into the ground for the past
18 years will be over the moon. The demise of the Tory government is being celebrated from
one end of the country to the other. |
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