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Remember when Conor Pope said that Blair lifted more children out of poverty in the UK than he killed in Iraq and therefore.... https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1322145218444042243
Of course, this rather elides the reality of New Labour's relentless assault on young ppl who were demonised with ASBOs and measures which were ruled unlawful in the courts, who had to pay for higher education and are currently facing low pay, insecurity and never owning a home
Tony Blair - Backed a ban on hooded sweatshirts and baseball caps in shopping centres as part of a wider moral panic about young people. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blair-backs-ban-on-hooded-sweatshirts-nbfhkdcnq9s
Tony Blair - Introduced powers for indiscriminate 9pm curfews on under-16s, as part of wider campaign against young people. Policy was later found to be unlawful as it breached human rights. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jul/21/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy
Tony Blair - Gave his backing to an academy chain that wanted to take over seven comprehensive schools and turn them into Christian Academies teaching young-earth creationism. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-blairs-link-to-schools-that-take-the-creation-literally-8002541.html
New Labour jailed over 1,000 children for breaching 'Asbos', orders which criminalised 'anti-social behaviour' that wasn't necessarily illegal, as part of a wider crackdown on young people. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/more-than-1000-children-jailed-for-breaching-asbos-907793.html
Alan Johnson - As Home Secretary gave his backing to a device called the 'mosquito' designed to disperse groups of young people by giving off an uncomfortably high-pitched noise only they could hear, in context of a wider moral panic about young people. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/minister-gives-backing-to-mosquito-1934242
Charles Clarke - As Home Secretary unveiled policy to ‘name and shame’ people given ASBOs, including children young as 10, through leafleting campaigns and passing their details on to the media.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4306333.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4306333.stm
James Purnell - As welfare secretary forced single mothers of children as young as one year and people registered unfit for work to work on threat of losing benefits. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welfare-mothers-to-be-forced-to-work-39r6gfq2fj9
+ mothers
Tony Blair - Said single mothers were the cause of many social problems. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-single-mothers-piling-up-problems-in-britains-inner-cities-529604.html
Tony Blair - Said single mothers were the cause of many social problems. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-single-mothers-piling-up-problems-in-britains-inner-cities-529604.html
Harriet Harman - Pushed through benefit cuts for single mothers in 1997 shortly after winning a landslide, arguing they would help them back to work. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1997/dec/11/Whitehall.uk
+ anti-black racism
Tony Blair - Blamed a spate of murders on ‘black’ culture that lacked ‘discipline’ and said people blaming poverty were being ‘politically correct’. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/apr/12/ukcrime.race
Tony Blair - Blamed a spate of murders on ‘black’ culture that lacked ‘discipline’ and said people blaming poverty were being ‘politically correct’. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/apr/12/ukcrime.race
