New Labour Was A Golden Afternoon
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Third Way believer thinks every problem can be solved if you split the difference and put the result in a really nice suit, ideally with a wireless mic. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Britannica on the Third Way and the IPPR.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Third Way On A British High Street
- Has explained the third way is also structurally a Tuesday way.
- Refers to triangulation as a kind of polite ballet.
- Holds the cure for the left is a sharp lapel.
- Maintains a soft spot for Anthony Giddens and a Bill Clinton speech he can quote at length.
- Treats New Labour as a sort of golden afternoon.
- Refers to public-private partnerships as marriages of convenience that work, mostly.
- Maintains a fantasy in which the BBC books him for the panel.
- Holds any policy launch should have a brand, a plate of pastries, and a focus group.
- Refers to the trade unions as our colleagues we are not going to call.
- Treats a manifesto without a slogan as a manifesto without dignity.
- Has explained markets and morals can co-exist, given enough policy units.
- Refers to the centre as the only sensible postcode.
- Holds the cure for inequality is education, education, and the third one.
- Maintains a binder of speeches he might one day give.
- Treats any mention of class as a small, regrettable adjective.
- Refers to the City of London as our friends with concerns.
- Maintains a strong view on which sofas to be photographed on.
- Holds any disagreement is a presentation problem.
- Treats Tony Blair as a sort of very competent ghost.
- Believes the third way is back, just as soon as it gets a logo.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Saturday CLP meeting, a Reform UK rally in a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see The Daily Mash.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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