New Labour owes more to Maggie Thatcher than to Ramsay MacDonald or Clement Atlee.
Ohh wow!
And how much you know about Thacther or Thatcherism?
How much you know about Ronald Reagen or Reagnomics?
It wasn't thatcher who proposed the idea of helping middle class and single mothers and poor by looting the rich!
By the way, this idea comes from keynesian economics which is worst transformation of Socialism. Keynesians always suggests that to reduce the effect of recessions, one should opt for supply side economics.
It is the only keynesaisn who will say that the hardworking and saving ants, who saves food for the future during the good whether to firmly face the upcoming bad whether are wrong and the grasshopper doing nothing and wasting time and money caring nothing about the bad whether is good. ( i hope you do remember the story of Ants and grasshopper).
Just to provide consumer power for the lazies who even don't want to work, keynesians wants government to keep giving allowances and incentives and monetary help for such people on behalf of the tax the government loots from the hard workers.
Why? because if the consumer power of the lazies will increase, the production demand will increase, and that will provide more work for the hardworker who are (keynesians assumes) are genetically made to be looted sacrificed and exploited by the socialist government and altruism demanding lazies.