No new vision: the gradual death of British social democracy?

Beech, Matt

Abstract

This article argues that the Labour Party has no new vision for British social democracy. New Labour in Government is intellectually tired and lacks ideological vision. Gordon Brown's leadership is managerial and lacking robust ideological content. These problems exist in a period of severe recession and whereby the Conservatives under David Cameron are in the ascendancy. The argument in this article asserts that revisionism is required in the Labour Party. An ideological revisionism which reconnects the Party with an overt vision of social democratic politics; which reconnects the Labour leadership with activists and supporters; and which inspires the next generation of Labour voters.

Citation

Beech, M. (2009). No new vision: the gradual death of British social democracy?. The Political quarterly, 80(4), 526-532. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02049.x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Nov 24, 2009
• Publication Date: 2009-12
• Journal: POLITICAL QUARTERLY
• Print ISSN: 0032-3179
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 526-532
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02049.x
• Keywords: Social democracy; New Labour; Revisionism; Labour Party; Ideology; Gordon Brown
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/387079
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02049.x