Re: "Third way is dead"

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Burford wrote:

> Rather rambling article from a political commentator, Polly Toynbee,
> who  usually has her ear very much to the ground of New Labour and
> is probably correct about this too:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,629668,00.html
>
> The central content of the article is that New Labour's electoral
> successes have indeed shifted the centre of gravity of politics in
> Britain.
>
> Best evidence of this is that yesterday, amazingly, the Conservative
> Party came out in favour of "the neighbourly society" - poor
> Margaret Thatcher, who thought there was no such thing as society.

Yeah, but Blair still wants to privatize the London Underground, no?
Seems to me that Sir Alan Walters was right, when he said that Mrs
T's most lasting achievement was the transformation of the Labour
Party.

Doug