Focus groups do not of necessity involve dilution of principle or compromise – to say that implies that the voters are fools, which they are not. They want politicians who are tough, honest and courageous, and who govern with principle. That is why they respected Margaret Thatcher and in the end lost faith in John [...]
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“The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Democracy, Electoralism, Politics, UK Labour, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
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“The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
January 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Politics, Progressive Politics, UK Labour, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
The world of politics is littered with assertions that are untrue, but are believed to be true because they were not effectively answered. An unrebutted lie becomes accepted as the truth. You must always rebut a political attack if leaving it unanswered will harm you. And you must do it instantly, within minutes at best, [...]
Tony Blair’s Foreword: “The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
December 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Campaigning, Politics, UK Labour, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
In opposition, you wake up and ask: ‘What shall I say today?’ In government, you ask: ‘What shall I do today?’ The impact of the saying is immediate. The impact of the doing is only apparent over time. I learnt as government progressed that the day-to-day news coverage mattered much less than laying down deep [...]
Tony Blair’s Foreword: “The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
December 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Campaigning, Politics, Progressive Politics, UK Labour, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
Government is a hundred times tougher but a thousand times more satisfying. Look back at 1997–2010, and you may still only recall the end, with all its bitterness and defeat. Over time, however, the achievements are clear and they are real – real in their effects on people’s lives, real in the change in the [...]
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Tony Blair’s Foreword: “The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
December 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Campaigning, Politics, UK Labour, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
(If we) create more people with more income and more education, they are going to want to make more choices; hence the importance of tax as an issue for the aspiring working class as well as the middle class.
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Tony Blair’s Foreword: “The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
December 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Campaigning, Politics, UK Labour, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
We did ‘lose touch’, not with ‘our roots’ but with a public whose anxieties over tax, spending, immigration and crime were precisely the opposite of those on the left criticising New Labour.
bestofchronicle: In part 3 of our special “Youths!” series, some youths do something that isn’t hoff
December 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
bestofchronicle: In part 3 of our special “Youths!” series, some youths do something that isn’t hoffing on goofballs, chucking rocks or wearing their caps sideways. Readers across the Downs are shocked. 03-12. Ah Toowoomba, you are both Quaint and Condescending.
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Culture in Crisis – “Hiroshima” – John Heresy
December 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Hiroshima, History, Japan, Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized, War, WW2
To Father Kleinsorge, an Occidental, the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience. The hurt ones were quiet; no one wept, much less screamed in pain; no one complained; none of the many who died [...]
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“Fifty Orwell Essays” – George Orwell
November 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Conservative Politics, Extremism, Ideology, Politics, Progressive Politics, Uncategorized
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment. Part I of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, ostensibly a satire on human greatness, can be seen, if one looks a little deeper, to be simply an attack on England, on the [...]
