More thoughts on Doublespeak
It is clear what Tony Blair meant by New Labour was in fact New Conservative and what their election anthem It Can Only Get Better (by D-ream) meant was, It Can Only Get Worse, and to take it a step further: When Ma Blair decided to call him Tony Blair, what she meant was Tory Blair . For there is little doubt that this party, this cabal based in Downing Steet run along presidential lines is as right-wing as anything concocted by the Major Bufton Tuftons and the white thrash Essex boys and gels of the Official Tory party.
Two examples of their laissez faire dogma will strike UK residents, this holiday weekend.
Their creation, The Office of Telecommunications - OFTEL has introduced "competition" into the Directory Equiries service. So instead of simply dialling 192 and being charged 40 pence to use the service, from today the public will have to chose between 16 services beginning each beginning with 118 ... followed by 3 further digits. The 192 service was run by BT, the new "services" will no doubt be run by pillars of the Institute of Directors, who will be either Lord this or Lady that, employing sweatshop call-centre workers in Mumbai, India on £1,250 per annum. Meanwhile research has shown that the cost of the new services to consumers is likely to increase by at least 30%.. More for mobiles/cellphones. Note too that the call will be charged on a time basis. Bear in mind that some of the new entrants have inadequate databases and funding and you can see in whose interests this farago will be run. Hint: It's not the consumer. So much for the Gordon Brown clamp down on Rip-off Britain
The other example is public transport. Blair's other creation the not for profit Network Rail formerly the non-profit making (but dividend paying and fat-cat over-remunerating) Railtrack has virtually closed down the railways for the holiday to make the railways a safe means of transport. This will put 30% more private vehicles on the roads - a situation which will make the normal gridlock seem like Silverstone on Grand Prix day. This has virtually killed the chance of the ordinary family getting away for the weekend. Won't affect Blair though, newly refreshed after his Summer Holiday at "Sir" Cliff Richard's villa in Barbados. [Cool Britannia!]

Now you, the reader might think that the person who writes this is a card-carrying member of a socialist party. I am not a member of a political party, never have been. I am a democratically-minded person who voted for Labour in the 1997 election and was delighted when they trounced the pathetic Tories. I did not vote for Labour in 2002. I feel terribly let down by this government. The final insult was the way Blair took Britain, (against the wishes of the British electorate, by lieing to that electorate and Parliament) into the illegal invasion of Iraq with the fascistic US neo-conservatives and hand Bush carte blanche to engage in any form of totalitarianism in the name of the deeply flawed logic of The War on Terror and extracting vengence for the unspeakable tragedies of Sept 11, 2001 to bolster a poorly informed US public. New Labour's gross incompetance at home, their adoption of discredited neo-conservative ideology means they should give Blair his walking papers.The consequences of outrageous adventure into Iraq are too terrible to contemplate.
I strongly recommend that persons interested in New Labour should re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell, persons interested in world domination should read 1984 by George Orwell, persons who want to know where Britain should be going, should read The World We Are In (2003) by Len Hutton and everybody should read anything they can get their hands on by John Pilger