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WenThatcher’s greatest achievement. Why are you surprised?<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-anti-net-zero-anti-woke-corporate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-anti-net-zero-anti-woke-corporate</a><a href="https://economicsociology.org/2018/03/19/thatcherisms-greatest-achievement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://economicsociology.org/2018/03/19/thatcherisms-greatest-achievement/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thatcher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a>

Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>'s clarity: abandon the vulnerable, embrace the polls. Leadership or followership? You decide. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhoDis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhoDis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarmerStrategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarmerStrategy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourLost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourLost</a>

Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEUFrom welfare cuts to identity politics, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>'s transformation into a Tory tribute act is almost complete. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhoDis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhoDis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabourWhoDis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabourWhoDis</a>

Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>’s ideology? Stability — but only for the wealthy. His compass points wherever the press tells him it’s safe to sail. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhoDis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhoDis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PowerOverPrinciple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOverPrinciple</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabourWhoDis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabourWhoDis</a>

Dark Photon Studio<a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SirKeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SirKeirStarmer</a> is in an impossible situation. He's trying to thread a needle that doesn't have a hole. Make no mistake this is still <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlabour</a> and there is little to distinguish them from <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a>. Like so many countries all the parties are in thrall to <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> and they won't move away from it. To do so would be to admit neoliberalism is a disaster. Instead they do what all UK govs do when the going gets tough, <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> because they have no solution. They are tied to the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> and the fantasy of "<a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freetrade</a>". The <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tories</a> knew this but they had no plan and that's why they called elections. When they get back in, they still won't.

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<a href="https://mastodon.social/@WEBylines" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@WEBylines</a> I have absolutely no faith in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/momentum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#momentum</a> ever returning to anything resembling <a href="https://mas.to/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialism</a> . <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thatcher</a> destroyed <a href="https://mas.to/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> acquiesced 100% The present lot are a fecking disgrace. I come from good stock and massively proud of my <a href="https://mas.to/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> roots. ✊

소주한잔<a href="https://tech.lgbt/@grayface_ghost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@grayface_ghost</a> hmm while I think they are incompetent, at some point you have to wonder if a political project that fails to deliver its goals might actually not have those goals at all. Like, my ford fiesta has never managed to enter lunar orbit, as hard as it has tried. So is it a shit spaceship or a decently working car?I think the purpose of <a href="https://union.place/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> might be best understood by observing what it does. They aren't there to improve the economy, they're there to enjoy the throne.

Donald Roy<a href="https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KimSJ</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GeofCox</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a>Much of the quiet things composing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> 'soft power' reflected a view of the role of the state which <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberals</a> do not share - although historically many <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> did. And it did not help that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlabour</a> often allowed itself to be gaslit by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#right</a> while in office - a mistake the present <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> government seems in danger of repeating!

Mark BurtonWe watched this, the last 2 nights. About Blair/Brown's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> project, cynicism, disillusion and neoliberalism. So many similarities with the current <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> regime, except NL was more competent, had at least a few reforming ideas and a fair tailwind. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewLabour2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour2</a> has none of that: no ideas, incompetent and a hurricane of headwinds.The Project - BBC iPlayer (probably <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> only). <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00232yx/the-project" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00232yx/the-project</a>

Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️Rather moved to read of the passing of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnPrescott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnPrescott</a> I disagree with a lot of what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> stood for at the time but Prescott was one of the faces of that movement I had some time for. Not that I agreed with him on everything, but I recognised his authenticity and his resonance especially with ordinary working people. His standing was improved after he threw a punch at a protestor in one general election!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/21/john-prescott-death-age-86-former-uk-deputy-prime-minister" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/21/john-prescott-death-age-86-former-uk-deputy-prime-minister</a>

Police State UK"In a recent YouGov opinion poll, only 22% of respondents said <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blair</a> had had a positive effect on the <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> Party, with 38% saying his impact was broadly negative. Even among Labour Party voters, only 26% labelled his impact as positive compared to 38% who saw it as negative."<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/tony-blair-and-his-associates-are-waiting-in-the-wings-to-seize-back-power-in-the-uk.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/tony-blair-and-his-associates-are-waiting-in-the-wings-to-seize-back-power-in-the-uk.html</a>

Police State UK"Starmer has mirrored Blair so far in his ruthlessness towards his own party, his efforts to build relationships with business and his pursuit of public service reform. But he is also more cautious, less seduced by glitz and more to the soft-left in his own views."<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Blairites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blairites</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/15/who-are-the-key-new-labour-figures-in-keir-starmers-government" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/15/who-are-the-key-new-labour-figures-in-keir-starmers-government</a>

happyborg<a href="https://mastodon.nz/@billbennett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@billbennett</a> No core societal services should be run as businesses, nor should much if any of it be outsourced.The UK since <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thatcher</a>'s privatisation dogma followed by <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a>'s public-private 'partnerships' are both perfect case studies in how not to provide essential services including health, education, transport and utilities.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/KierStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KierStarmer</a> and Reeves are still at their core New Labour / Tory light, so we are still being lead down a dark alley where <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> is waiting like a mugger.

Donald Roy<a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a> At least some of the toxic inheritance will be made up of problems of capacity and capability that cannot be tackled in the short term - though there will be temptation to do so both expensively and often ineffectively - the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlabour</a> approach- the famous 'third way'. There will be lobbying to do exactly that - for there would be a lot of money in it for some! Means-testing winter fuel payments may prove a fiscal 'own goal' - if the take up of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pensioncredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pensioncredit</a> goes up enough..

Donald Roy<a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a>There was a period - a few months on both sides of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukgeneralelection2001" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukgeneralelection2001</a> - when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlabour</a> did look as if it was metamorphosing into a recognisable centre-left government - along the lines of those headed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attlee</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wilson</a> . However the events of 11th September 2001 provided an opportunity for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blairite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blairite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ultras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ultras</a> to stop this process in its tracks and indeed reverse it to some extent. We have yet to see which part of the story will repeat itself.

MarkWhen Margaret <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thatcher</a> was asked what her greatest achievement was while in office she replied, “New Labour”.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryScum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryScum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryCorruption</a>

AutisticMumTo3Archbishop of Canterbury urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap | Poverty | The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/archbishop-canterbury-urges-starmer-to-ditch-cruel-two-child-benefit-cap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/archbishop-canterbury-urges-starmer-to-ditch-cruel-two-child-benefit-cap</a><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ArchbishopOfCanterbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArchbishopOfCanterbury</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/2ChildBenefitsCap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2ChildBenefitsCap</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/2ChildLimit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2ChildLimit</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brown</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Welby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Welby</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewLabour</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UN</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/JesusChrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JesusChrist</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/FeedingBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeedingBritain</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/BishopOfLeicester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BishopOfLeicester</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snow</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/ChildPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildPoverty</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/HOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HOL</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Rayner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rayner</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/UniversalCredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversalCredit</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/MinimumWage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MinimumWage</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/DeSchutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSchutter</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/UNSpecialRapporteurOnExtremePovertyAndHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNSpecialRapporteurOnExtremePovertyAndHumanRights</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/TemporaryAccomodation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TemporaryAccomodation</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a>

GeofCox<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@jose8" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jose8</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@junesim63" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@junesim63</a> "is this labour party any different to the birth of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlabour</a> "I think it is. I was an active UK Labour party member in the 90s and a supporter of the New Labour project. There are 2 big things people (especially the current Labour leadership) have forgotten.The first is context. Political feelings in the 90s were dominated by the collapse of the planned economy models in Eastern Europe. For most of us, New Labour was not centrally about moving to the right or defeating the left - it was about moving away from Morrisonian nationalisation towards anti-capitalist but market-oriented solutions like social enterprise: if market economies really out-performed planned economies, then make the market work 'for the many, not the few'. The context now is precisely the opposite: events like the 2008 crash have shown that capitalism doesn't work, the rise of China (by conventional economic standards) has shown that government intervention actually works rather better than 'free markets', and moreover our increasing understanding of impending climate-ecological breakdown makes controlling capitalism essential.The second thing is that the first Blair government actually was radical (as one of its leading figures, Claire Short, recently argued - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/10/keir-starmer-labour-1997-victory-tax-climate-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/10/keir-starmer-labour-1997-victory-tax-climate-crisis</a> ). The minimum wage, Robin Cook's 'ethical foreign policy', devolution, Sure Start, etc... It was only later that Labour lost its radicalism (I left the party and active UK politics over the Iraq war).I feel both left and right in the UK now misunderstand what really happened in Labour in the 90s. It was not a move to the right, it was a radical modernisation in response to a changing world. When Labour in government gradually did move to the right, it continued to win a couple of elections, but with a fast declining vote and - crucially - fast declining turnout - that has never really recovered.

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