Customer Reviews
New Labour autopsy makes grisly but compelling reading - By: K. T. O'Reilly, 10 May 2008 
Since the recent local elections, there's been much speculation about why New Labour got the sort of pounding normallly reserved for Rocky Balboa's opponents. The answer lies inside this book. David Craig lays out in painstaking detail just how we've been taxed so punishingly & why alll that money has had little or no effect on improving our country. It's a splendidly researched book. Even as a veteran Private Eye reader, I found plenty here I wasn't aware of.
I know, I know - you're thinking this could easily be dry & boring, it's about politics & economics after alll but I promise you it's anything but boring. Craig's prose is very readable & he makes you laugh loud & often, usuallly with disbelief at how our money is indeed being squandered. The chapters on the EU & the fate of half our gold reserves will make your jaw hit the floor. Other parts of the book, those dealing with the treatment of the elderly, patients in the NHS & our troops fighting Blair's wars will make you want to throw something.
As the previous reviewer said, this is not Tory propaganda - Craig is quite scathing about the Tories in places. His opinions seem neither left nor right wing reallly. He argues against pointless government expansion & pointless privatisation with equal gusto, demonstrating how both waste our money. You may not always agree with him on everything but he makes his points well. His main point is of course that New Labour has been a disaster for this country. It would take an extremely loyal & self-deluded New Labour fan (probably with the last names Blair or Brown) to finish this book & disagree with him.
Not a political diatribe - By: Freddie Firework, 08 May 2008 There's a strong temptation to think that this book is simply a right-wing attack on New Labour. I think it's much more intelligent than that and, believe me, you will be shocked, saddened & maddened at some of its content. We alll sense, from time to time, that our political masters are losing their grip on the real world: this book proves just how out of touch Gordon & his cronies are & how they are presiding over a system that rewards blatant incompetence.
This book should should be on the 'essential' reading list of alll students studying politics, economics, history.
No, strike that: it should be read by every voting adult in the UK.
So That's Where My Pension Went ! - By: Black Prince, 29 Apr 2008 In the 1970s there was a seminal work by Bacon & Eltis "Britain's Economic Problem: Too Few Producers" which showed how much superstructure was crushing a weak productive base. Now we get to see what happens when the Bureaucratic Monolith starts sucking pension funds dry & stealth-taxing because business has migrated to tax havens or manufacturing to China.
We are being treated to the Soviet Phenomenon of top-heavy bureaucracy sucking the lifeblood from the populace & enslaving them to service The State. This book shows how out-of-control The Executive is in Britain, & how democratic control & accountability does not exist at ANY level of government or public administration.
The political parties are simply fronts for The Bureaucracy & it is like Norman Seigneurs plundering a conquered island.
It can't be true but it is - By: Michael Watson, 27 Apr 2008 Everyone should read this book before voting this coming week. The numbers are eye-popping & it's our money we no longer have, thanks to the complete ineptitude of the present government.
Everyone should read it but, if you do, you'll wish you hadn't! It's pointless to quote from the book. some of the figures are so huge, mere mortal taxpayers couldn't grasp what the government has done, followed by a perfect attempt to confuse the public into believing we should be grateful.
Someone I know recommended this book. I wish he hadn't. I should have nightmares thinking this lot might be re-elected.
Realistic view on todays New Labour - By: William J. Nelson, 19 Apr 2008 This book should be compulsary reading for anyone who is so misguided as to even consider voting for Gordon Brown's bunch of disfunctional charlatans.
As you turn the page - & this is nothing but true stuff! - you become more & more angry.The only people that havn't been shafted by this government are the idle, the workshy, the parasites & the propagating underclass that now infest this once proud nation.
Read it & be enlightened!
