Reflections on Blair's Velvet Revolution

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 223, 1997, Pages 3-16

  Blackburn, Robin ^a  

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1. For the definitive account of the United Kingdom as the land of 'Ukania', see Tom Nairn, The Enchanted Glass, London 1987.
2. These figures were given in The Sunday Times, 3 May.
3. Seumas Milne, 'Silenced Voices', The Guardian, 12 May.
4. See Isobel Lindsay, 'The Autonomy of Scottish Politics', NLR 191, January-February 1992.
5. The Observer, 11 May.
6. For an eloquent attack see Simon Jenkins, Accountable to None, London 1994.
7. John Markoff, 'Really-existing Democracy', this issue.
8. Anthony Barnett's The Defining Moment, London 1994, remains the best outline of how devolution and democratization might be achieved.
9. Indeed the formation of the new government suggested that Tony Blair's domination of the government is, as yet, incomplete. According to a rule established in the Bennite period the Prime Minister had to choose his Cabinet largely from the ranks of those elected to the Shadow Cabinet in the outgoing Parliament.
10. Such points were made by Larry Elliot in The Guardian, 7 May, Anatol Kaletsky in The Times, 9 May, and William Keegan in The Observer, 11 May. Diane Abbott, a veteran member of the House of Commons Treasury committee, voiced similar criticisms.
11. Such points were made by Larry Elliot in The Guardian, 7 May, Anatol Kaletsky in The Times, 9 May, and William Keegan in The Observer, 11 May. Diane Abbott, a veteran member of the House of Commons Treasury committee, voiced similar criticisms.
12. Such points were made by Larry Elliot in The Guardian, 7 May, Anatol Kaletsky in The Times, 9 May, and William Keegan in The Observer, 11 May. Diane Abbott, a veteran member of the House of Commons Treasury committee, voiced similar criticisms.
13. Meghnad Desai, 'A Word to the Wise', Tribune, 16 May 1997.
14. Of course Jacques Delors himself proposed that the deflationary Maastricht criteria be accompanied by a £100 billion Community-wide infrastructural programme but failed to obtain German backing because of the strains resulting from unification. From an ecological standpoint such Euro-Keynesianism would have been a nightmare, multiplying motorways to the Mediterranean periphery. The New Deal needed by the Union would not only aim to stimulate economic life in the poorer regions but would also seek to reverse large-scale pollution.
15. One of the first to point this out was David Gordon in 'The Global Economy', NLR 168, March-April 1988. But see also Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, 'Globalization: Ten Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers', Soundings, no. 4, Autumn 1996; Chris Harman, 'Globalization: Critique of a New Orthodoxy', International Socialism, no. 73, Winter 1996; Greg Albo, 'The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives', Monthly Review, vol. 48, no. 7, December 1996. That a wider public is committed to the curbing of rampant market forces was shown when Will Hutton's The State We're In became a bestseller; for another suggestive critique of neoliberal models see Maurice Glasman, Unnecessary Suffering, Verso, London 1996.
16. One of the first to point this out was David Gordon in 'The Global Economy', NLR 168, March-April 1988. But see also Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, 'Globalization: Ten Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers', Soundings, no. 4, Autumn 1996; Chris Harman, 'Globalization: Critique of a New Orthodoxy', International Socialism, no. 73, Winter 1996; Greg Albo, 'The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives', Monthly Review, vol. 48, no. 7, December 1996. That a wider public is committed to the curbing of rampant market forces was shown when Will Hutton's The State We're In became a bestseller; for another suggestive critique of neoliberal models see Maurice Glasman, Unnecessary Suffering, Verso, London 1996.
17. One of the first to point this out was David Gordon in 'The Global Economy', NLR 168, March-April 1988. But see also Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, 'Globalization: Ten Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers', Soundings, no. 4, Autumn 1996; Chris Harman, 'Globalization: Critique of a New Orthodoxy', International Socialism, no. 73, Winter 1996; Greg Albo, 'The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives', Monthly Review, vol. 48, no. 7, December 1996. That a wider public is committed to the curbing of rampant market forces was shown when Will Hutton's The State We're In became a bestseller; for another suggestive critique of neoliberal models see Maurice Glasman, Unnecessary Suffering, Verso, London 1996.
18. One of the first to point this out was David Gordon in 'The Global Economy', NLR 168, March-April 1988. But see also Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, 'Globalization: Ten Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers', Soundings, no. 4, Autumn 1996; Chris Harman, 'Globalization: Critique of a New Orthodoxy', International Socialism, no. 73, Winter 1996; Greg Albo, 'The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives', Monthly Review, vol. 48, no. 7, December 1996. That a wider public is committed to the curbing of rampant market forces was shown when Will Hutton's The State We're In became a bestseller; for another suggestive critique of neoliberal models see Maurice Glasman, Unnecessary Suffering, Verso, London 1996.
19. One of the first to point this out was David Gordon in 'The Global Economy', NLR 168, March-April 1988. But see also Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, 'Globalization: Ten Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers', Soundings, no. 4, Autumn 1996; Chris Harman, 'Globalization: Critique of a New Orthodoxy', International Socialism, no. 73, Winter 1996; Greg Albo, 'The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives', Monthly Review, vol. 48, no. 7, December 1996. That a wider public is committed to the curbing of rampant market forces was shown when Will Hutton's The State We're In became a bestseller; for another suggestive critique of neoliberal models see Maurice Glasman, Unnecessary Suffering, Verso, London 1996.
20. One of the first to point this out was David Gordon in 'The Global Economy', NLR 168, March-April 1988. But see also Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, 'Globalization: Ten Frequently Asked Questions and Some Surprising Answers', Soundings, no. 4, Autumn 1996; Chris Harman, 'Globalization: Critique of a New Orthodoxy', International Socialism, no. 73, Winter 1996; Greg Albo, 'The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives', Monthly Review, vol. 48, no. 7, December 1996. That a wider public is committed to the curbing of rampant market forces was shown when Will Hutton's The State We're In became a bestseller; for another suggestive critique of neoliberal models see Maurice Glasman, Unnecessary Suffering, Verso, London 1996.
21. See, for example, Robert Pollin, 'Financial Structures and Egalitarian Economic Policy', NLR 214; Erik Olin Wright, 'Coupon Socialism and Socialist Values', NLR 210; Richard Minns, 'The Social Ownership of Capital, NLR 219.
22. See, for example, Robert Pollin, 'Financial Structures and Egalitarian Economic Policy', NLR 214; Erik Olin Wright, 'Coupon Socialism and Socialist Values', NLR 210; Richard Minns, 'The Social Ownership of Capital, NLR 219.
23. See, for example, Robert Pollin, 'Financial Structures and Egalitarian Economic Policy', NLR 214; Erik Olin Wright, 'Coupon Socialism and Socialist Values', NLR 210; Richard Minns, 'The Social Ownership of Capital, NLR 219.
24. For a useful survey see Andrew Gamble, John Kelly and Dominic Kelly, eds., Stakeholder Capitalism, London 1997 and also the discussion in John Plender, A Stake in the Future, London 1996. I will analyse 'grey capitalism' and 'stakeholding' in a future issue.
25. For a useful survey see Andrew Gamble, John Kelly and Dominic Kelly, eds., Stakeholder Capitalism, London 1997 and also the discussion in John Plender, A Stake in the Future, London 1996. I will analyse 'grey capitalism' and 'stakeholding' in a future issue.
26. See Roy Hattersley's pertinent remarks in The Guardian, 19 May.
27. Roy Hattersley, 'Pragmatism Must Not Still Conscience', The Guardian, 14 May.
28. Timothy Bewes, Cynicism and Postmodernity, Verso, London 1997, p. 186.
29. Jasper Ridley, Napoleon III and Eugenie, London 1979, p. 228. Louis Napoleon's entourage at this time included French socialists who might well have read the Manifesto.