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	New Statesman - I am still a Blairite, but is Blair?
		I became a Blairite (even before Blair, I like to think) because I wanted the centre left to become the dominant force in British society, as I believed was possible if Labour was reformed and modernised.
		Drawing on the rich intellectual resources of the "liberal socialism" that was forged in the early part of the 20th century - as new liberalism mingled with ethical socialism - the opportunity existed to put together a powerful, modern progressive movement.
		I am a Blairite because the new social democracy born out of Labour's renewal both corrected this historic weakness and opened the way to a progressive majority in Britain.
	www.newstatesman.com /200006190007 (1325 words)

	CWU: Strike action looms as Blairite official is kicked out
		The Blairites’ influence in the union movement was dealt another body blow last month after John Keggie failed in his bid to be re-elected to the post of CWU Deputy General Secretary.
		The Blairites are already becoming more and more isolated in the movement, and now they are going to take an almighty hammering.
		The defeat of Keggie, who was seen by many as a key ally of Blair, and a member of the Labour Party NEC, is a step forward in reclaiming the unions, and restoring their effectiveness as fighting organisations.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/435/30 (663 words)

	Blairite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In United Kingdom politics, the term Blairite refers to a personal and/or political supporter of Tony Blair, Leader of the Labour Party since 1994 and Prime Minister since 1997.
		Politically, Blair has been identified with the introduction of quasi-markets into public services, an interventionist and Atlanticist foreign policy, and support for stronger law enforcement powers.
		Others have even speculated that, if the Blairite coalition is to be seen as essentially one of pro-market anti-Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats could even be its ultimate inheritors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blairite (369 words)

	Telegraph \| Comment \| The Blairite hope that dares not speak its name
		The Blairite gang is no longer as cohesive, or as sure of its future.
		The Blairites are alarmed by Mr Cameron, not only because he agrees with much of what they say, planting his standard on the centre-ground, and daring the Government to tack to the Left to differentiate itself.
		But there is no doubt that when some Blairites look at Mr Cameron and Mr Brown, and ask which man is more likely to protect and pursue the Prime Minister's public service reforms - to complete, so to speak, the Blair revolution - the name they come up with is not "Gordon".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/10/30/do3003.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/10/30/ixop.html (1069 words)

	Politics \| Brown: I will continue Blairite reforms
		Gordon Brown explicitly stated he would lead a "Blairite" Labour government this morning, as he toured the TV studios to defend his pre-budget report.
		Ahead of the predicted election of David Cameron as Conservative party leader this afternoon, he also complained that it would be "unfair" to portray the likely next election as "youth v age" contest, saying as a father of a two-year-old he felt "pretty young, actually".
		Asked if he was not a brake on reforms of the public services involving the private sector, Mr Brown first insisted that the Treasury had in fact led many of the policy initiatives, before confirming he would continue Blairite reforms.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5349448-107979,00.html (761 words)

	New Statesman - The Blairites reign supreme
		Quite often a Blairite could become a Brownite, or be both simultaneously.
		The leading Blairite is in a job removed from the normal domestic agenda.
		The Blairite cabinet needs a renewed sense of direction as well as plaudits for efficient management.
	www.newstatesman.com /199910180004 (1502 words)

	Portuguese workers strike against Blairite cuts \| The Socialist 15 Dec - 4 Jan 2005
		COUNCIL AND local government workers in Portugal are striking on 13 and 14 December against the Blairite 'socialist' government's vicious attacks on their rights, working conditions and living standards.
		The national strike was a proposal taken from the floor after dozens of workers' meetings held by Lisbon Council Workers' Unions, where members of Alternativa Socialista, the CWI group in Portugal, played a key role.
		Workers are angry at the Blairite Partido Socialista's (PS) enormous attacks on public-sector workers.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2005/420/np3.htm (227 words)

	Blair ready to quit in the spring
		Senior Blairite MPs said that high-level discussions were going on to prepare for a transition to an expected Gordon Brown premiership.
		Mr Blair has admitted that it was a mistake to announce two years ago that he would not serve a fourth term and has been resisting naming a specific date for going because of fears that it would weaken his position further.
		Mr Clarke is the most senior Blairite to become publicly disloyal - and, even more significant, to begin the process of defecting to the Brown camp.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/june2006/280606Blair.htm (734 words)

	Reject and Survive
		The Blairite spin, falling where the media blows it, will bring the most widespread dangers of all.
		The continued dominance of the Blairite faction within the Labour Party, with tacit acceptance by most trade union managers, means that you and your group may feel isolated by the central offices, and feel exposed during branch meetings, or when you see David Blunkett on TV.
		If your sitting MP is a Blairite Labour MP do not be afraid to confront them and take direct action on specific issues, as well as questioning the extent to which they truly represent you.
	labhist.tripod.com /reject.htm (2916 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Comment is free \| Nothing reflects the lack of ideas in the Blairite locker as much as Let's Talk ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In TS Eliot's poetry, "the moment in the rose garden" came to symbolise a sublimely rare instant of visionary experience, that fleeting moment in which the eternal and the temporal meet, and the universe and one's place in it seem to make intensely profound, intuitive sense.
		Yesterday, he launched a new initiative that is designed to seize back control of the domestic policy agenda, with a new pledge to rescue public services, notably the criminal justice system.
		It is difficult to conceive of another name that would reflect so totally the lack of ideas left in the Blairite locker.
	www.guardian.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /commentisfree/story/0,,1775790,00.html (977 words)

	In the Cause of Labour - Chapter 27
		This was the commencement of the Blairite "counter-revolution" within the Labour Party, which would trample underfoot every one of the fundamental principles upon which the Party had stood for the past century.
		After the Blairites' victory, the capitalist press crowed loudly that "Old Labour is dead" gloated The Independent, "Blair buries socialism", trumpeted The Sunday Times, and Blair "buries the past" chipped in The Observer.
		This was a victory for the middle class Blairite carpetbaggers who had infiltrated the Party, as well as the right-wing apparatus.
	www.marxist.com /hbtu/chapter_27.html (7240 words)

	blairite.com
		My posts on Samizdata at the time criticised the slow response of the government towards the victims of the 2004 tsunami.
		Liberal Democrats : Lord Warner was spearhead of Blairite NHS reforms...
		Here is that ball to Gatting: I feel privileged to have watched the great man in action on numerous occasions.
	blairite.com (296 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
		Finally it is clear: 'Blairite' = critical of the moderate left
		Yesterday's policy statement also included a "Blairite" rebuke of Prime minister Dominique de Villepin's "economic patriotism" - but again, not because it was protectionist, but because it was being used as a smokescreen to privatise Gaz de France.
		We saw the "Blairite" meme in creation, between her reply to the FT about Blair, and the Le Monde article construing it.
	www.eurotrib.com /story/2006/6/6/43911/70750 (3003 words)

	Why Dissensus? - Dissensus
		I knew nothing about it and when were 'put into groups' by the Blairite Komissar in charge, I simply asked what were the merits of Moodle as opposed to using html.
		The Blairite model wants educators to pander to students' laziness and intransigence by taking things down to where they are (please note, I'm not saying ALL students are lazy etc: most of my students are brilliant, dedicated, hungry for discourse) - that's why Meeja studies is so popular.
		Course, you have to start where the students are, but to end up there too and call it education is unforgivable.
	www.dissensus.com /showthread.php?p=762 (1895 words)

	Hain 'not Blairite or Brownite' - news.uk.msn.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Labour deputy leadership hopeful Peter Hain has said he is neither a "Blairite" nor a "Brownite" when he stressed his independent credentials for the job.
		The Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary insisted a Welsh MP could be Gordon Brown's number two if the Chancellor succeeds Tony Blair.
		He said: "I have always been independently minded, loyal to the Prime Minister and I would be loyal to his successor who I think will be, and ought to be, Gordon Brown - not in a coronation but as a contest.
	news.uk.msn.com /Article.aspx?cp-documentid=921700 (291 words)

	Blairite?? RAFLMFAO
		So the choice is: Trot, Blairite and Tory.
		But I won't take a bashing from the left from people who support religious fundamentalists, theocrats and arab nationalist imperialism, just because that imperialism has less money than dubya...
		Finally, there is a big difference between attacking someone from the left, as you, I, and the LGBT poster above have all done; and actually being on the left of them, which I don't claim for a second to be.
	www.educationet.org /messageboard/posts/88220.html (173 words)

	ePolitix.com - Blairite heavyweight 'will run for leader'
		As many as 10 cabinet ministers would back a challenge in the leadership contest expected within 12 months, said the Observer.
		An unnamed source, reportedly involved in discussions between Blairite ministers, said that they were discussing uniting behind an 'anyone but Brown' candidate.
		In an interview with the News of the World Brown threw down the gauntlet to Blairite rivals for the job of Labour leader declaring: "I am happy for there to be a leadership contest.
	epolitix.com /EN/News/200609/3a010c31-abdf-4518-996b-ae86de00cb50.htm (303 words)

	ngin archive
		According to the article, the co-authors were Blairite Baroness, Susan Greenfield who is the Director of the Royal Institution, and a certain Tristram Hunt.
		The fig-leaf for the various media control efforts has been reports out of Blairite dominated parliamentary committees calling for the press to be reined in on issues like GM.
		Now, in the latest twist, Marcus Williamson has established that the recent promotional in the Independent was actually straight out of no. 10's press office with the Royal Institution's director's name just tagged on, apparently without even her knowledge...
	ngin.tripod.com /091201a.htm (1636 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Brown promises to be 'Blairite'
		Chancellor Gordon Brown has told the BBC he would run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister when Tony Blair steps down.
		He said, at 54, he would not be too old for the job, despite David Cameron, 39, likely to be the next Tory leader.
		Asked to explain his comment that a Brown administration would be Blairite, the chancellor said "whoever is in power" will be running a modern Labour Party and intensifying the pace of reform.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4502252.stm (606 words)

	Polly Toynbee: The Blairite provisional wing are destructive wreckers \| Columnists \| Guardian Unlimited (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Polly Toynbee: The Blairite provisional wing are destructive wreckers
		He is the Blairite provisional wing that sees no reason not to contract out all public services: the state can be pure purchaser, never provider.
		The best renewal would be a healthy leadership election: to confront both a Blairite and an old-left diehard would help Brown define himself, and sharpen the party's sense of direction.
	www.guardian.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Columnists/Column/0,,1751213,00.html (1165 words)

	George Galloway: Unite to end disaster of Blairite policies\|16Sep06\|Socialist Worker
		There is much pent-up rage at what the Blairites have done.
		For the more Brown faces a serious challenge from a Blairite, the more the squeeze will be on Old Labour people to shut up and get behind him.
		That means raising now the core policies of opposition to war and privatisation, the restoration of trade union rights and civil liberties, and the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor around which large swathes of the movement can unite.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=9695 (972 words)

	Re: Blairite Ultras are at the Door - Guardian opinion piece
		Re: Re: Blairite Ultras are at the Door - Guardian opinion piece -- Paul Prentice
		Recent announcements by leading Blairite and Health Minister John Hutton about the need for hospitals to be run as a business and allowed to make a 'profit' should have alarm bells ringing in the ears of any genuine socialist, right or left.
		Re: Blairite Ultras are at the Door - Guardian opinion piece ---
	www.educationet.org /messageboard/posts/40033.html (173 words)

	Dole crackdown condemned as Blairite gimmick \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		A crackdown on the long-term unemployed has been branded a "Blairite gimmick", after the work and pensions secretary warned persistent claimants that they could have their benefits withdrawn.
		David Laws, the Lib Dems' work and pensions spokesman, added: "Labour has been in power for almost 10 years, so it seems extraordinary that in the twilight months of Blairism, John Hutton should be calling for 'a review' to sort out such an important problem.
		In his speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research this morning, Mr Hutton - an arch Blairite - said that there was a "small group" of benefit claimants in areas with plenty of jobs who were physically able to work.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1974753,00.html (657 words)

	The Blairite Ken \| Workers' Liberty
		Livingstone drifted back to the left; or maybe the Labour left softened and weakened so much that even Livingstone’s “cynical soft-sell” approach (his own words) seemed within its ambit.
		In 2000 the Blairites’ main objection to Livingstone was that he opposed privatisation of the infrastructure of the Tube (track and maintenance).
		Once elected, Livingstone launched court cases to obstruct the privatisation, but the scheme finally went through on 8 April 2003, and he scaled down his complaint to one about “the best method of financing for the Tube”.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/1584 (694 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Blairite and Jedi enter dictionary (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Science fiction terms have become official language with the inclusion of Jedi, Klingon and Tardis in the latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
		Also getting a mention is Blairite, the term used for supporters of prime minister Tony Blair.
		The terms are among some 3,500 extra words which have been included in the dictionary which is published on Thursday by Oxford University Press.
	news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /1/hi/uk/2282572.stm (675 words)

	The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: The Task of Higher Education in Blairite Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The quote from Nietzsche on the "task of higher education"strikes rather too close to home in Britain.
		"Nietzsche's is a depressingly accurate description of the task of higher education in Blairite Britain.
		In response to pressure from government ministers and civil servants, PhD students at one fairly well-known British University are now duty-bound to keep a 'Graduate School Research Student Log' which is obsessively devoted to the 'self-audit' of their 'development of appropriate skills'.
	webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/001544.html (290 words)

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