Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq
Controversy on the subject came to the fore when Andrew Neather—a former adviser to Jack Straw , Tony Blair and David Blunkett —said that Labour ministers had a hidden agenda in allowing mass immigration into Britain, to "change the face of Britain forever".
This alleged conspiracy has become known by the sobriquet "Neathergate". According to Neather, who was present at closed meetings in , a secret Government report called for mass immigration to change Britain's cultural make-up, and that "mass immigration was the way that the government was going to make the UK truly multicultural". Neather went on to say that "the policy was intended—even if this wasn't its main purpose — to rub the right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date".
This was later affirmed after a request through the freedom of information act secured access to the full version of a government report on immigration that had been heavily edited on a previous release. In February , the then Prime Minister David Cameron stated that the "doctrine of state multiculturalism" promoted by the previous Labour government had failed and will no longer be state policy. Trade union activist and journalist Jimmy Reid wrote in The Scotsman in criticising New Labour for failing to promote or deliver equality.
He argued that Labour's pursuit of a "dynamic market economy" was a way of continuing the operation of a free market economy, which prevented governments from interfering to achieve social justice. Reid argued that the social agenda of Clement Attlee 's government was abandoned by Thatcher and not revived by New Labour. He criticised the party for not preventing inequality from widening and argued that New Labour's ambition to win elections had moved the party towards the right.
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In , sociologist Anthony Giddens , a key figure in the development of the " Third Way ", listed problems facing the New Labour government, naming spin as the biggest failure because its damage to the party's image was difficult to rebound from. He also challenged the failure of the Millennium Dome project and Labour's inability to deal with irresponsible businesses. Giddens saw Labour's ability to marginalise the Conservative Party as a success as well its economic policy, welfare reform and certain aspects of education.
Giddens criticised what he called Labour's "half-way houses", including the National Health Service and environmental and constitutional reform. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about a campaigning label used by the British Labour Party from to For the party itself, see Labour Party UK. For other uses, see New Labour disambiguation. Retrieved 30 March — via www. Archived from the original on 19 April Retrieved 29 October Retrieved 18 June Retrieved 15 July Archived from the original on 25 June Retrieved 19 June First hung parliament in UK for decades".
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Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann The Making of New Labour. Barlow, Keith; Mortimer, Jim The Left at War. Bochel, Hugh; Defty, Andrew Welfare Policy Under New Labour: Views from Inside Westminster. Coats, David; Lawler, Peter New Labour in Power. I agree with Kettell's argument that this was only possible because of the undemocratic and elitist nature of the British state. It is a must-read for anyone entertaining the notion that our system is democratic or that foreign policy is made in the public interest. Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses', Vintage, 'Provides an excellent account of the Blair government's strategies for the political management of the democratic process from the decision to go to war in Iraq through to the London bombings of 7 July Paperback , pages.
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