Donald Roy · @djr
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@ChrisMayLA6

This is what happens when a regulatory regime is allowed to run on for three decades. Early on - in the 1990s - the snags were not apparent to the same extent. Which was why dropped the idea of albeit rather later than in the case of other public utilities. Time for a rethink on this?

#newlabour #renationalisation

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Donald Roy · @djr
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@gabrielesvelto

He also had a really damaging effect on political culture in the in the 1990s. Elements in appear to have seen as a model to follow. This was highlighted in the work by on "post-democracy" - a withering critique published close to 2000. Events have since taught something different and it seems unlikely that that particular model will re-emerge.

#uk #newlabour #forzaitalia #colincrouch #labour

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Donald Roy · @djr
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The South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre was - and is - located within an existing site of an hospital with emergency/urgent care facilities. It is operated by the services such as cleaning are not contracted out. It was funded by £ 16M. of public capital from the rather than private finance. Despite thus breaking with every principle it has been a great success over nearly two decades.

#NHS #nhsand #nationalloansfund #newlabour

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Donald Roy · @djr
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The trip was unusual in that I was doing it on behalf of Wandsworth Community Health Council - an organisation that the was seeking to abolish - it took them three years and four months to do so. Community Health Councils had been created in 1974 by the government of Harold Wilson to represent the interests of patients and the public in the . They had survived a certain amount of unfavourable attention from the after 1979.

#newlabour #labour #NHS #conservatives

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Donald Roy · @djr
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@GeofCox

That fits with my experience. It has to be said that the was dangerously naive in its approach to the private sector. This made many of its programmes far less cost effective and value for money than they need have been.

One has to hope that lessons will have been learnt - and that the next government will avoid that particular mistake.

#newlabour #government #labour

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JuneSim63 💚 · @junesim63
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"There are those of us who exist in a more or less free society. And there are those who, while also living within the borders of the United Kingdom, exist in a police state. If the rest of us knew these people existed and what was being done to them in our name, we would scarcely believe it"

George Monbiot on Indefinite Public Protection prison sentences, still affecting 2892 prisoners.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#ukpolitics #policestate #newlabour #prisons #IPP

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Donald Roy · @djr
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@ChrisMayLA6
This need not mean restricting provision. Rather it means avoiding a repetition of the mistakes made last time - paying massively over the odds in order to bring in the being an obvious example. The embarrassing history of is another one.

Which means being prepared to accept that the period of , although positive in very many ways, was in no sense any kind of prelapsarian !

#healthcare #privatesector #nhsit #newlabour #government #goldenage

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Bob Jamieson · @bobjmsn
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Abuses and intelligence failures hang over UK 20 years after Iraq war
Moral reputation of UK intelligence and military has been tarnished for a generation

theguardian.com/world/2023/mar

#tonyblair #newlabour #war #intelligencefailure #iraq

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Bob Jamieson · @bobjmsn
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On this day 20 years ago, Robin Cook tried to stop the Iraq war. I helped write that historic speech
He grieved that he was unable to avert the conflict. But look at his words: he was so right and, had he endured, would have offered much more

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#newlabour #illegalwar #robincook #politics #iraq

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Alexander Hay · @alexanderhay
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So, in today's scumbag news, Blairite stuffed shi(r)t, Keith "KeirStarmer" Stalin said the should be 'reformed' (as in, privatised) and that there should be a 'respectful' debate on whether people should be allowed to exist.

What's the story, closet Toraidh?

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64279654

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-sco

#nhs #trans #uknews #ukpolitics #news #centrists #newlabour

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The New Statesman · @newstatesman
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If radicals fail to make clear demands on , ’s old guard will take advantage, writes the economist @Meadwaj.

’s default setting is managerial and its default mode of address is to the political centre. Without a defence of the more radical elements of his programme, as they come under attack from the remnants of , a reversion to the status quo is virtually guaranteed.’

Read more: newstatesman.com/comment/2023/

#keirstarmer #newlabour #starmerism #blairism #westminster #ukpolitics

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Plague Island Resistance · @JoeGrowling
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jack · @jack
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@wobl@chaos.social Kompromiss wäre ja schön und gut, aber hier hat sich fast ausschließlich die FDP durchgesetzt - wohl um der SPD den Mindestlohn zu ermöglichen. Die Grünen sehe ich hier leider nur als -Dienstleister für ein sozialliberales Bündnis à la .

Ein fliegender Wechsel wie 1982 zur - vielleicht auch noch mit - ist da schon abzusehen...

#greenwashing #newlabour #niewiedercdu #merz

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SubGuy · @subliminal_guy
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Hin und wieder ist landläufig zu hören der Niedergang der sei eine Tragödie. Dem ist nicht so. Die Genoss*innen haben sich jeden ihrer politischen Abstürze hart erarbeitet ... @spdbt@twitter.com @PSOE@twitter.com elmundo.es/espana/2019/11/11/5

#sozialdemokratie #newlabour #Schroeder #olafscholz

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