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The "New Labour are Left Wing" Myth. The very idea that the New Labour government of 1997-2010 was some kind of left-wing project is probably the single biggest myth in UK politics.

The "New Labour are Left Wing" Myth

New Labour was clearly a continuation of the Thatcherite experiment, she said so herself. When Thatcher introduced right-wing neoliberal economics to UK politics in 1979 it was undoubtedly an extremist ideology. It is important to remember that the UK had been a role model to the world before Thatcher and her crew imposed this economic ideology from the extreme-right fringe, which had been forged in Latin American dictatorships.

Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU.

Free Trade Agreement

Asset stripping bankrupt Britain. I really shouldn't have to explain why this is such a ludicrous statement for the Prime Minister to have made, and why the underlying assertion, that the UK is bankrupt, is so inaccurate.

Asset stripping bankrupt Britain

But there are a lot of cognitively illiterate people that accept such stupid and transparently inaccurate narratives, and repeat them in lieu of actually developing anything resembling coherent political or economic thoughts of their own, so I will. It is a dire reflection on the state of political and economic literacy in this country that the Prime Minister can get away with spouting such transparent nonsense, without so much as a murmur of criticism from the mainstream press. The assertion about Labour busting the banks is bad enough (I'll come back to that later) but the real glaring demonstration of erronious judgement is the hystercal use of the work "bankrupted" to describe the UK economy.

Patriotism? Administration.

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