(3) What impact did the Thatcherite
Revolution have on Labour
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(3) What impact did the Thatcherite
Revolution have on Labour
At the time
The initial impact was to drive to the
left in order to "protect" its
foundations in social democracy
What emerged was radical
left polices such as
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Withdrawal from the EEC
Increased investment
in the welfare state
This creates Adversary Politics: A form of politics that
is characterized by deep Ideological conflict between
major parties; parties of rival ideological visions
Not only did this create adversary politics between
the two main parties there were also division
between those in Labour
The largest impact was the split
from the party to create the
Social Democrat party in 1981
They later joined
with the Liberal to
create the Liberal
Democrates
The Labour Leader Neil Kinnock
abandoned the policy of UND and
withdrawal from the EEC
Tony Blair, Labour leader 1994 and PM 1997-2007,
intensified this change. This marked by rewriting of
Clause Four of the Party's constitution
Labour
Traditional Labour
Labour has always drawn
on the idea of liberalism
Labour commitment to nationalisaition
though clause 4 was never as though
as it might have seemed
Labour commitment to social justice
was reamined unchanged under Blair
Labour has a long-standing
modernising tradition and
so Blair is not unusal
"invest and reform" programme, one that
promised increased spending
New Labour
Blair has overseen the part-privatisation of
the National Air Traffic Control System
Expanded other "Public-Private"
services; such as the Private
Finance initiative in health
So New Labour aimed to reform government
with a view to re-legitimiding state intervention
in the economy and society
New Labour could reconcile the free
market with the pursuit of social justice
A Minium Wage was introduced
Apeal to the "middle englan"
in the 1990 - lower taxes
The chief themes of the New
Labour project were as follows:
Market economic
Labour came to accept the
economy should be regulated by
the market and not by the state
First Blairs government granted
semi-independence to the Bank of
England on setting it interested rates
After 2001 Labour embarked on an expansion of
public serivces with unprecedented levels of
public spending on health and eduction
Constitutional reform
Blair first Government introduced a series of
constitutional reforms. However, many have argued that
Labour conversion to constitutional liberalism was only
partial. Changing the voting system was quickly dropped
Brown tried to attempted to revive interest in constitutional
reform; looking steps to reduce the prerogative powers of the
PM but more radical reforms never past the discussion phase
"Third way" welfare
Blairs approach to wealfare was differant to
"standing on your two feet" and the
social-democratic belief in "cradle to grave" support.
"targeted Benefits", an empphase on the idea of "welfare-to-work."
However, this was the area which difference between Blair and Brown
were most acute. As chancellor, Brown slower pace of public sector
reform (Public-Private partnerships), and after 2007 plans to further
reform the welfare state were effectively abandoned
Strenthening responsibility
A key Blairite belief was the idea that rights should
always be balanced against responsibilities, it was
influenced by communitarianism
The desire to strenghen social duty and moral
responsibilites was reflected in the called" respect Agenda"
New Labour succumbed to neocinservative
and endangering of vital civial liberties