vigorous protests in Birmingham (aboce) and Oxfordshire (cop). ministers reverted to the language of Thatcherism, arguthat a second require people to "stand on duced. their own two feet", and end These tac taaront support trom the welfare state.
Blair said want widely-expected themselves to help ride out difficult times: losing a job or becoming ill, for exam- as we go to press!
But they David Blunkett went further and argued for a system vatisation of "self-help". He sugeested While babies are promised a cash handout in 18 years time, pensioners are being ripped off now: and care of the elderly is bring further pricatised with the hand-over of council residential homes despite La return to the old mutual antagonised Labour's core voters will be support for workers before eclipsed by the onslaught as the welfare state was intro- soon as Blair has won his second term. warnings of New Gordon Brown onenly to TUC chief Tohn policy ambitions came in the Monks that the only sections Tony of the public Announce would not be subject to priment of an election on June 7 vatisation would be the NHS (though this is still awaited and the police. Of course the NHS is far reinforced other from untouched by privatisa significant hints that the pri- Current plans and friendly policies that have so worth new To if that is one area leave alone, workers education, other remaining areas of the public sector had better get come. many of Blair himself has spelled out an exceedingly right. wing agenda for Labour's second term in a recent interview with a US has said business journal.
Speaking to Forbes magazine carly in March, he made that it clear that New 1 abour sees itself quite openly as the arty of big business. hetty donations from mil lionaires and the continued close collaboration would right wing press really have privately shaped Labour's policies.
the whole of the economic agenda around economic • At an the international level we push ahead on the WTO..." For cacaers, Blair nad a pre-election warning: "I want to see far more emphasis on entrepreneurship in schools, far closer New and business. I want to see us develop entrepreneurial culture. We have only just gone bencath There will be no respite for beleaguered public sector delighted at the extent of priratisation driven through by with Labour has extended:
"There are many steps of liberalisation going on at the moment. If I go to my conmore liberal in this way - my electricity and my water are