TONY BLAIR's now 1992 commitment to "reClause Four may seem sponsibility and opportuUnity". awfully familiar. But perBlair's 'back to basies' haps that's because sey- call for "a just society aral of its key alms and which ...nurtures famiphrases have been lifted lies" Is a paraphrase of from old Tory manl- Thatcher's 1983 call for "a Able society which festos.
prolacta the weak but also Blalr's eager enthustasm for "the enterprise of allows the family and the the market Is a stralaht to flourish." lIN from Thatcher's 1979 Blair's lonce that commitment to "a free an- *the rights we enjoy ratioci the duties we owe" is obvitemrise economy".
ousty pinched from His call for "opportunity Thaicher's 1983 formula for all" Is pinched from "trasdem and responsibilJohn Malor's meaningless ly go together.* Blair's call for a "thrivIno private sector" also recalls John major's winning formula competition and private ownership are the most powerful angines of economic efficiency.
Of course Blair's excuse for such brazen plagiarism Is obvlous: In each case the stolen chrases come from the manitesto of the party that won the election.
But with Tory policies so widely despised and discredited, even a capable opportunist should realise It might be better to keop say anything it's up to mandate from the London APF, and I'm quite happy to speak in support of it if If that means that I get
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