Didn’t Blair win the subsequent election? On the face of it, a man who won three General Elections in a row probably knew what he was doing when it came to winning elections.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by libcon: :: How New Labour ignored the focus groups http://bit.ly/5m3PMl…

“If we want a world ruled by law and by international co-operation then we have to support the UN as its central pillar.”
From: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1297.asp

Just one of the several downside consequences of committing Britain to the (seriously mismanaged) Iraq invasion in 2003 is that our troops in Afghanistan have been under-resourced.

I regard myself as belonging to the keynesian tradition in economic policy so I naturally accepted many months ago that early cuts in public spending would delay recovery from the recession. But there is also extensive evidence on public record of wasteful and badly managed government spending, notably in education quangos and the funding of further education colleges. It will remain a perennial mystery as to how the government allowed the manifestly unsustainable house-price bubble to continue to inflate without restraint and as to why it failed to rein back consumer borrowing before it reached £1.4 trillion.

With news reports such as this, I think we should be told what exactly is happening with spending cuts in the NHS:

“The NHS may need to cut its workforce by about 10 per cent — the equivalent of 137,000 staff — to help to meet planned savings of £20 billion, according to a leaked Department of Health report.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6818817.ece

Yes, it’s about time someone tackled the glaring contradiction that New Lab ignore the wishes of the electorate and their own voters. Having heard so much about focus groups I’d assumed that NL get to choose which poodles get onto these things but this article reveals that they just Carry On Regardless of the views expressed.

Yes, it’s about time someone tackled the glaring contradiction that New Lab ignore the wishes of the electorate and their own voters. Having heard so much about focus groups I’d assumed that NL get to choose which poodles get onto these things but this article reveals that they just Carry On Regardless of the views expressed.

Hasn’t “the many, not the few” been the slogan which has been used?