TONY BLAIR AND
GORDON BROWN
BRAXTON MOORE, BRITTANY BAGWELL, NIC
NGUYEN, PRESTON LAHMANN, TYLER REGELSKY
TONY BLAIR
1997-2007
PUBLIC POLICY (TONY BLAIR)
• Focused on health and education
• Tuition
• Welfare state
• Gay rights
• Civil Partnership Act
• Increased Workers Rights
• Anti-terrorism policy
• Redistributive
PUBLIC POLICY (TONY BLAIR)
• Increased spending
• Police
• Environment
• Transportation
• Significant constitutional reforms
• Devolution Scotland and Wales
• Raise taxes
• National Minimum Wage
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND
POLITICAL CHANGE
• Blair
- Qualities of the Government
- distinct from Liberal Capitalism
- centralist alternative to the old Labour
Party and the Conservative Party
- modernized social democracy
- inside a framework of nationalism and
liberalism
QUALITIES OF GOVERNMENT CONT.
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Difficulty of secession
Actions should complement and improve markets
Adaption of product, captial and labor
Modernization of education and training programs
Tax cuts to raise profits
GLORIFICATION OF THE
ENTREPRENEUR
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Support enterprise and private business
Importance of the individual
Creation of wealth
Development of small to medium-sized business
ECONOMIC CHANGE
• Tony Blair
• Before he was PM:
-Thatcherism (free-market)
• Blair tried to fix economy
• Mixed Economy
• Third Way
-“rag bag of policies and initiatives”
CITIZENS, SOCIETY, AND STATE
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Tony Blair
Good Friday Agreement
Ruling in the “Third Way”
Popularity Decrease
What he did
-minimum wage
-education reforms
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U.K. VS U.S.A. COMPARISON
TONY BLAIR- TERRORISM
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United Kingdom
Suggested religiously fueled
terrorist attacks would not
end in this generation
Close relationship with
George W. Bush
Entered Iraq against public
desire
9/11
Prompted development of
Anti-terrorism coalition
2nd term characterized by
foreign military action
-Kosovo
-Sierra Leone
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United States
“War on Terror” epitomizes
Bush’s administration
George W. Bush searches
for WMD’s
-intelligence failure
-Hurt his reputation
War in Afghanistan and
Iraq
-Operation
Anaconda
Ousting of Saddam
Hussein
COMPARISON CONTINUED:
TONY BLAIR-ECONOMY
United Kingdom
• Hands off governmental policy
• Sub contraction of
economic goals
• Allowed easy foreign labor
migration
• Off-shore manufacturing
• Wanted to increase U.K.’s
global economic influence
• Climate change
• Stimulation of African
economy
• Increase economic flexibility
United States
• Large tax cuts in early
2000’s
• 2011:followed 9/11 attack
• War on Terror funding
• Bush’s 2008 FY budget
• Natural Disaster
• Katrina
• Characterized by heavy
spending
• Defense
• Social Security
GORDON BROWN
2007-2010
PUBLIC POLICY (GORDON BROWN)
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Leader of labour party
Gave bank of England Independence
Inflation measure switched
Corporate tax fell
Expanded government spending
Steal taxes
PUBLIC POLICY (GORDON BROWN)
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3 billion in pension allowances
Increased national insurance
Green development
New ministerial code
Allowed referendum on EU treaty
PUBLIC POLICY (GORDON BROWN)
• Establishment of Eco-towns
• Promised British for British
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BROWN
Transfer interest rate setting
powers to Bank of England
Extension of powers of Treasury
Parliament power to declare war & approve senior
position appointments
• Moving right to form citizen juries to citizens
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MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE
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Clampdown on corruption
Better constitution
Clear rights and responsibilities for citizens
New Ministerial code
- standards for behavior of ministers
THE NEW CORE
• Soon dominated the political culture of GB
• Excluding the non-voting, disadvantaged
underclass from most politics
ECONOMIC CHANGE
• Gordon Brown
• Before he was PM:
-Chancellor of Exchequer
• Sources said he was an economic failure
-last ten years:
1. corporate tax rate
2. increase in tax each year
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CITIZENS, SOCIETY, AND STATE
• Gordon Brown
• As Chancellor of Exchequer
-Economic Reforms
-Taxation
• Constitutional Reform (proposed)
• Socialistic Views
• During Global Recession
• Lancashire Plot
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COMPARISON:
GORDON BROWN- DOMESTIC POLICY
United Kingdom
• Compulsory personal, social,
health education in 2009
• Attempted to reduce child
poverty in 2010
• Child Poverty act
• Education and Skills Act of 208
• Drop out age
• Financing of education
courses for poor families
• Increased importance of
national minimum wage
Greatly increased fines for
paying under the minimum
wage
United States
• No Child Left Behind
• Encouraged
corporation friendly
legislature
• Expansion of
Department of
Homeland Security
• Medicare reform
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Time Line of Important Events (1997 to 2007)
1997 May - Labour under Blair wins landslide election victory.
1997 August - Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris.
1998 - Good Friday Agreement on a political settlement for Northern
Ireland is approved by voters in the Republic of Ireland and in
Northern Ireland.
1999 - UK forces take part in the air war with Yugoslavia and the
consequent multinational force in Kosovo.
2000 - UK forces intervene in Sierra Leone to protect and evacuate
foreign citizens caught up in the civil war. They subsequently stay on
to help train the government army.
2001 June - Blair's Labour party wins a second successive general election victory
2001 September/November - Following September 11 attacks on targets in
the US, PM Tony Blair offers strong support for US-led campaign against
international terrorism. British forces take part in air strikes on targets in
Afghanistan.
2003 March - UK joins US-led military campaign against Iraq after UN-based
diplomatic efforts to ensure Baghdad has no weapons of mass destruction
are perceived to have failed.
2003 August - Prime minister, defence secretary, government officials and
aides, BBC managers and journalists testify at Hutton inquiry into death of
government scientist at centre of row over claims government embellished
case for Iraq war
2004 October - Iraq Survey Group concludes that Iraq did not possess
weapons of mass destruction in run-up to US-led invasion. Tony Blair
acknowledges flaws in pre-war intelligence but stands by case for war.
2005 May - Labour Party's Tony Blair wins a third successive term, albeit
with a much-reduced majority in parliament.
2005 7 July - 52 people are killed and around 700 are injured in four
suicide bomb attacks on London's transport network. Two weeks later,
would-be bombers fail to detonate four devices on London's transport
network
2007 February - Tony Blair announces the first large-scale withdrawal of
British troops from Iraq.
2007 May - Leaders of Northern Ireland Assembly sworn in, ending five
years of direct rule from London
2007 June - Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as premier
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