Tony Blair’s claim that we had just "24 hours to save the NHS" was one of the finishing touches to New Labour’s crushing victory over the discredited Tory government in 1997.
Paul Harper has worked for the supply organisation of the NHS for the last 18 years. He told Socialist Worker, "I’m a Labour Party member and I thought that Labour would improve the NHS.
For ten years, the chancellor has been a scowling shadow to Tony Blair’s obscene grin. Whatever the occasion, whatever the policy, Gordon Brown was frowning in the background.
A poll last week in the Independent showed that 69 percent thought that Tony Blair would be remembered for the war in Iraq.
Nothing could be crueller in exposing Tony Blair’s failure as Labour prime minister than the timing of his departure. It invites us to compare May 1997, when he was first elected, with May 2007.
He will, of course, be remembered above all for one thing – Iraq. And rightly so.
Hope that the "New" in New Labour meant a turning point against racist treatment saw up to 90 percent of black and Asian people vote for Tony Blair in 1997.
We are in the final days of Tony Blair. And good riddance to bad rubbish.
Respect is gearing up to build on its successes at last week’s council elections. The party won three council seats on 3 May. Michael Lavalette was re-elected in Preston, Ray Holmes won in Bolsover, Derbyshire, and Mohammed Ishtiaq was elected as Respect’s second councillor in Birmingham.
The election results last week underlined that Tony Blair has succeeded in partly rehabilitating the Conservatives.
New Labour has rushed to try and claim that its performance at last week’s elections could have been worse.
"In politics, the acid test is what you end up achieving. Judge us after ten years of success in office. For one of the fruits of that success will be that Britain has become a more equal society."Peter Mandelson speaking in 1997. Tony Blair’s right hand man was announcing the formation of a Social Exclusion Unit to tackle inequality, shortly after New Labour came to power.
