Comments on: Are they our fault too ? http://commonendeavour.org/2009/06/07/are-they-our-fault-too/ In Place Of Fear Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:39:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: Dave Cole http://commonendeavour.org/2009/06/07/are-they-our-fault-too/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Dave Cole Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:12:52 +0000 http://commonendeavour.org/?p=1071#comment-97 I'm not sure what the ideology of the third way is or was. Certainly, there are a couple of slim texts by Tony Giddens and others, but they generally say that Labour is no longer the party of Arthur Scargill and a little bit of privatisation isn't so bad. While the first is true, that process had started under Kinnock and was nearly finished at John Smith's untimely death. There is an alternative short of Blairism but long of insanity. To do that, however, we need to acknowledge the mistakes we have made as a party in power - Iraq must be up there, as must be privatisation (viz. Metronet) and some of the failures of internal party workings. These are difficult to do in any case, and even more so when the party is damaged, the leadership shaky and with an election twelve months away. xD. I'm not sure what the ideology of the third way is or was. Certainly, there are a couple of slim texts by Tony Giddens and others, but they generally say that Labour is no longer the party of Arthur Scargill and a little bit of privatisation isn't so bad.

While the first is true, that process had started under Kinnock and was nearly finished at John Smith's untimely death. There is an alternative short of Blairism but long of insanity. To do that, however, we need to acknowledge the mistakes we have made as a party in power - Iraq must be up there, as must be privatisation (viz. Metronet) and some of the failures of internal party workings. These are difficult to do in any case, and even more so when the party is damaged, the leadership shaky and with an election twelve months away.

xD.

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