{"id":10674,"date":"2016-07-28T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10674"},"modified":"2016-07-28T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:46:59","slug":"new-labour-dead-and-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10674","title":{"rendered":"New Labour Dead and Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The saga of the Labour\u00a0leadership continues to play out and there may or may not be a drama in store later when the court decision on\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s eligibility is to be announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However yesterday was very important. Owen Smith, who is supported by almost all the parliamentary Labour party,\u00a0laid\u00a0out a manifesto\u00a0which couched in detail a programme far to the left of anything heard from the party for nearly twenty-five years. This was not centre ground stuff at all and had it been Milliband&#8217;s offer\u00a0in 2015 he would have won. But New Labour was still living then and tied his hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This blog&#8217;s criticism would be that Smith&#8217;s offer\u00a0did not sufficiently address in a modern way the challenge of restoring the UK&#8217;s industrial strength and create new wealth in depth fairly shared by all. Maybe he needs to read my book \u00a0<strong><em>Turn Left For Power.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of the Labour\u00a0leadership continues to play out and there may or may not be a drama in store later when the court decision on\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s eligibility is to be announced. However yesterday was very important. Owen Smith, who is supported by almost all the parliamentary Labour party,\u00a0laid\u00a0out a manifesto\u00a0which couched in detail a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10675,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions\/10675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}