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New Labour: the wasted era

The New Labour has squandered their opportunity to affect change, leaving us with the grim prospect of a Conservative government

In Gordon Brown’s article in the Guardian on Saturday 16th this month, he claims that New Labour values demand a ‘genuine meritocracy’ for all people within Britain, with an ambition to ‘not only raise the glass ceiling, but to beak it.’ A radical manifesto is promised to follow, as the Labour Party aim to show that they are a party on the left, with the Conservative Party vision of ‘an age of austerity’ reverting to type on the right. But after more than a decade of Labour government which has consistently undermined these values and failed its core voters, despite this positive vision, actions really do speak louder than words.

The fact is that the Labour Party has failed to grasp the opportunity to affect real positive change. With such a mandate to rule, New Labour could have made significant gains in providing the values which they are now standing behind. Yet instead, they have denied a generation of socially democratic progressive change, whilst handing over vital support to the Conservative Party. As… Continue reading...