Word: thatcherism
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Within a day, the charge that seemed so threatening had evaporated. "He's very good, isn't he?" mumbled Thatcher admiringly. "He certainly knows damage control...
...party into the post-ideological center. And now he is on a roll. He may even be unstoppable. If the polls are accurate, and they have been remarkably consistent for months, Britain on May 1 will have its first Labour Party Prime Minister since James Callaghan lost to Margaret Thatcher...
...demonstrated in late March, he is equally deft. The Tories had claimed "proof" that Blair was secretly planning to restore union power once in office. For many in Britain, calling someone a closet union lover is like saying in the U.S. that someone is soft on crime. Thatcher rode to Downing Street on a promise to curb union influence. If it worked for the Iron Lady, Major's camp figured, why not try it again? Trouble is, Blair's view that employees should be permitted to join a union if a majority vote to do so is neither...
...Blair reached across the Atlantic for cover. But not to Clinton, whose tactics, strategy and substantive prescriptions he has occasionally borrowed and with whom he is often compared. No, this time Blair went for the big embrace, straight past Clinton to Thatcher's old ideological soul mate Ronald Reagan...
...immediate task--getting elected--Blair has proved conclusively that he knows exactly what's worked for Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He has singlemindedly refashioned Labour to contest for the leadership of modern Britain, and done so largely by grafting the most popular and successful Tory program planks onto Labour's manifesto, which means Labour is fairly seen as a Tory clone. Thatcher's success, especially, made reforming Labour both necessary and possible, and she regularly complains about a "conversion of convenience" while insisting that "imitations are still fake." Newspapers like the Independent rail about new Labour's "miserable, defensive...