B R A X T O N M O O R E , B R I T T A N Y B A G W E L L , N I C N G U Y E N , P R E S T O N L A H M A N N , T Y L E R R E G E L S K Y

TONY BLAIR AND GORDON BROWN

TONY BLAIR1997-2007

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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 BROWN2007-2010

PUBLIC POLICY (GORDON BROWN)

• Leader of labour party• Gave bank of England Independence • Inflation measure switched • Corporate tax fell• Expanded government spending• Steal taxes

PUBLIC POLICY (GORDON BROWN)

• 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

MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE

• 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 rate2. 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 wageGreatly 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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