[news] Britain: New Labour is Dead

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By TARIQ ALI - Counterpunch

Awestruck by Margaret Thatcher, [Tony] Blair and [Gordon] Brown aped her achievements within their own party, squeezing old social-democratic ideas out of themselves, drop by drop. They were all market fundamentalists now. Deregulation and privatisation became a mantra and over the last ten years the social divide in the country between rich and poor increased more than even under Thatcher. Redistribution of wealth was no longer on Labour’s agenda.  


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