Word: labourers
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...week is out, Tony Blair will discover whether he can remain Prime Minister, and if he can, whether the office is still worth holding. First there's the culmination of weeks of feverish campaigning, arm twisting and strategic concessions by Blair's Education Minister to contain a massive Labour rebellion over plans to increase university budgets by making students pay more. A loss on this bill would mean a central plank of Blair's push to rejuvenate British education - and his broader drive to find ways of modernizing public services without raising taxes - would stand rejected by his own M.P.s...
...Another weakness for Blair is the surprising force of "Old Labour," the party members who stress social justice over technocratic reform and have grown impatient with his penchant for the private sector. They rebelled last year over injecting more private money and control into hospitals, and have drawn the line at tuition fees. For some, the unambiguous promise in Labour's last manifesto not to raise them in this Parliament ended the matter, even if Blair's changes wouldn't come into effect until 2006. Others think the Exchequer should cough up the funds to restore the system they enjoyed...
...their very existence is threatened. Sure, low interest rates and stable inflation have given small businesses a favorable environment. And the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), which draws its membership from Britain's 3.8 million SMES, commends governmental and other programs that offer access to capital. But since the Labour Party came to power in 1997, says the FSB, red tape and administration costs have increased 17%. And part of the struggle Gallagher faces comes from being dependent on the government. U.K. government authorities fund about 70% of the patients who occupy the nation's 350,000 beds...
...little like being Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. While Republicans have their fun with the judicial, legislative and executive branches, the opposition party can’t join in the governing game. So perhaps the Dems could learn something from their political cousins Down Under. Australia’s Labour Party has been shut out of power for the last eight years by the conservative Howard administration, which, incidentally, has been strident in its support for President Bush’s foreign policy. Labour has just chosen a new leader to challenge Howard: maverick politician Mark Latham, who recently denounced...
...solidarity with the Americans in front of the cameras despite the fact that Bush had yielded no ground on the release for trial of the British “unlawful combatants” who have been held at Guantanamo Bay since they were captured in Afghanistan. Many in the Labour government supposedly view their release as a point of principle—a vast number of Britons certainly do. It was widely expected that some kind of solution would be reached as a reward for Britain’s loyal support during the war in Iraq...