David Cameron says that Labour have “abandoned” the principles of “New Labour” and have instead returned to the “Denis Healey era” of emergency budget and “class war campaigns”.
That they are going back to a class war footing certainly is true, as evidenced by the Crewe and Nantwich by-election campaign that Labour have been waging.
It is also news to me - and probably to most Labour ministers - that there are were New Labour principles at all!
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Letters From A Tory
May 15th, 2008 at 9:49 am
1New Labour principles…. Hmmm…. How about ‘cash for honours’? Starting illegal wars with other countries? Bankrupting the UK?
John Ward
May 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
2They had only one principle that I could determine, and are sticking to it: cling onto power at all costs, along with anything else you can squeeze out of the system.
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