Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 周二， 2008年6月3日 
Via通过 UK Watch英国观赏 | It all seems rather silly now, but it was not so long ago that many on the liberal left fully expected the Gordon Brown coronation to deliver a significant change of political direction rather than a mere, though welcome, change of style. |这一切似乎相当无聊，现在，但它并非如此，前不久，许多对自由离开充分预计财政大臣布朗加冕提供一个重大的变化，政治方向，而不仅仅是一个，虽然表示欢迎，改变作风。
It was always a fantasy, of course, and Brown did not waste much time in disillusioning them.它一直是幻想，当然，布朗并没有浪费太多时间在他们失望的。 But what was the basis for the wishful thinking in the first place?但什么是基础，为一厢情愿的想法摆在首位？ In part it can be put down to Brown seeking to out-manoeuvre Blair with a series of ‘dog-whistles’ to the party faithful.在部分可以放下布朗寻求地地道道的余地，布莱尔与一连串的'狗口哨'向党的忠实。 These supposed ‘values’ were in turn given undue credibility as a result of a febrile media constantly delivering bulletins on the teeth-bared battle behind the scenes between the so-called Blairities and Brownities for control of the party, and, as too many allowed themselves to think, for the soul of it.这些假定的'价值观' ，从而给予不必要的公信力，由于一发热媒体不断发表公告对牙齿-暴露了战役幕后之间，所以所谓的blairities和brownities控制党，并因为太多获准他们认为，为的灵魂。 After all, if the intense internecine warfare was not evidence of a deep ideological divide, what was it about?毕竟，如果在激烈的自相残杀的战争是没有证据了深刻的思想鸿沟，它是什么呢？ After the wretched dithering over the autumn election, the fêting of Thatcher, the delay in nationalising Northern Rock, the 10p debacle and much more, culminating in the tactics leading up to the Crewe & Nantwitch by-election, the mystery may have been resolved.之后，倒霉的抖动超过今年秋天的大选中， fêting的撒切尔，延迟在nationalising Northern Rock的， 10便士的崩溃以及更多，最终在战术领导到crewe ＆ nantwitch由选举产生，谜可能已经得到解决。 New Labour’s strategy at Crewe is what caused the penny to drop.新的劳工的策略在crewe是什么造成的竹篙下降。
First of all, here was a party that once grandly announced that it had ‘no problem with people getting filthy rich’ and had spent a decade and half of bowing at the altar of privilege now attempting to dupe voters by playing the class card.首先，这里是一个党，一旦堂而皇之地宣布，它已'没有问题的人越来越肮脏的丰富' ，并已花了十年的一半屈服在祭坛上的特权，现在企图欺骗选民发挥工人阶级卡。 More than anything it is the little details that suggest the gig is up.比什么都重要，这是小细节，建议检票了。 For example it has been reported that voters had been woken up at 4am by callers pretending to be Tory canvassers.举例来说，它有报道说，选民已惊醒了在4am由来电者假装被保守党助选。 And four-by-four vehicles festooned with blue balloons according to an article in The Independent have been careering through council estates – more pretend Tory canvassers.和四轮驱动的车辆festooned与蓝色汽球根据一篇文章，在独立已careering通过安理会屋-更多假装保守党助选。 Next minute they’re pointing the finger at the Tories for being soft on immigrants.明年分钟他们指出，指责保守党为软对入境者。 A chorus of ‘You don’t know what you’re doing!’ would have mocked these clunking inconsistencies in the New Labour message in any football ground in the country.大合唱'你不知道什么您正在做的！会嘲笑这些clunking不一致的，在新的劳工讯息在任何足球地面在该国。 The sheer desperation, panic and by-any-means-necessary approach is not, however, matched by the ruthlessness characteristic of the Blair regime in terms of delivery.纯粹的绝望，恐慌和由任何经济状况的做法是必要的，但不能匹配由残忍的特点，布莱尔政权的条款交货。 Instead, there is an absurdly amateur element that would have had Blair apparatchiks recoiling in horror.相反，有一个荒谬的业余元素，这将有布莱尔apparatchiks recoiling在恐怖。 Which raises an interesting question.其中提出了一个有趣的问题。 If, as is now almost universally accepted, the Brown v Blair tug of war never was ideologically based, why then were there ‘Brownites’ at all?如果像现在几乎普遍接受的，布朗v布莱尔拔河从来是思想上的基础，那么，为何有' brownites '在所有？ What were they for?是什么，他们呢？ It is when you check out the Brown Cabinet, jam-packed as it is with sycophantic time-servers who could never have hoped to have made the cut in the Blair era, that it starts to make sense.这是当您签出布朗的内阁，果酱包装，因为这是与sycophantic时间服务器谁可从来没有希望作出了削减，在布莱尔的时代，它开始使意识。 There never was any genuine Brownite faction devoted either to leader or cause at all.从来没有任何真正的brownite派专门要么领导人或事业在所有。 What there was were individuals who, aware of the Blair-Brown pact, hitched themselves to Brown’s bandwagon out of nothing more than grinding personal ambition matched deep down with a cold-eyed estimate of their true abilities.什么是被个人谁知道，布莱尔-布朗的协议， hitched自己布朗的潮流了从无到有，以上磨削个人野心匹配的深入与冷眼睛的估计，他们的真实能力。 In short, sub-prime ‘Blairites’ to a man/woman—and they all know it.在短期内，小组总理' blairites '一名男子/女子和他们都知道这一点。
One senior Labour MP quoted in the London Evening Standard said, on the disastrous Crewe Nantwitch by-election campaign, “It has been juvenile and counter-productive.一位资深国会议员引述劳工，在伦敦标准晚报说，在灾难性crewe nantwitch由竞选， “它已少年和反效果。 And if they think this has played badly in the North of England, that’s nothing to the way it looks to people in the South and London who thought class warfare was a thing of the past.如果他们认为这起严重，在英格兰北部的，这不算什么，以这样的期待，以人在该国南部和伦敦谁以为阶级战争是过去的事。 Down here people do not hate those who are better off—they aspire to join them.”这里的人不恨那些谁是更好的小康，他们渴望加入他们“ 。
Many indeed may well ‘aspire’ but jumping classes is an altogether different matter, as a recent survey shows.事实上，很多可能'渴望' ，但跳班是一个完全不同的事，作为一个最近的一项调查显示。 Millions of Britons are getting into debt to finance a lifestyle beyond their means simply because they want to give the appearance of being middle class.以百万计的英国人是陷入债务融资的生活方式，超越他们的手段，只是因为他们不想给的出现，正在中产阶层。
An astonishing 15 million people have racked up debts of £35billion despite their income being below the national average, the survey found.令人惊叹的1500万人有racked了债务£ 35billion ，尽管他们的收入低于全国平均水平，调查发现。
Six million wannabe middle class households bring in less than £15,000 a year and many rely on credit cards and bank loans to fund their spending. 6000000 wannabe中产阶层的家庭带来不少于1.5万英镑， 1年和许多依赖于信用卡和银行贷款，基金，他们的消费。
The average income for working class people is £23,000 and £33,000 for the middle class.平均收入为劳工阶层的人是23000英镑和33000英镑为中产阶级。
But rent and mortgage payments are nearly the same at £366 for a working class household compared with £334 for the middle classes.但租金和抵押金几乎相同，在366英镑，为劳工阶层的家庭相比，英镑334为中产阶层。
Those considered to be in the ‘upper middle class’ were found to earn more, with average earnings of almost £52,000 a year.那些被认为是在'中上阶层'被发现，以赚取更多，平均收入52000英镑，几乎是一年。
Richard Mason, director of moneysupermarket.com, which carried out the research, said: ‘It’s worrying to see that so many people are spending and borrowing beyond their means to try to keep up with the lifestyles of others.’理查德梅森，主任moneysupermarket.com ，进行了研究，说： '这是令人担忧地看到，所以很多人都支出和借贷超出了他们的手段，尽可能保持与他人的生活方式。
Rather optimistically, personal finance expert Sue Hayward said that it all showed ‘the class divide was shrinking’.而乐观，个人财务专家控告海沃德说，这一切表明， '阶级鸿沟正在缩小。 Actually what it shows is that together with the ever-expanding wealth divide between rich and poor, the politically more significant class divide between working and middle classes is also keeping pace.其实它表明的是，联同日益扩大的贫富鸿沟，富国和穷国之间，在政治上较显着的阶层之间的鸿沟的工作和中产阶层，也是与时俱进。 More significant because in the real world, contrary to myth, it is the working class, not the middle class, that is really expanding.更重要的，因为在现实世界中，相反，神话，它是劳动阶层，而不是中产阶层，这实在是扩大。 But if Ms Hayward is confused it is understandable.但如果女士海沃德是混淆了这是可以理解的。 With his slogan ‘we’re all middle class now’ Blair seemed to promise a meritocracy.与他的口号'我们所有的中产阶级现在，英国首相布莱尔似乎承诺精英。 But as repeated surveys show, neo-liberalism did not and indeed could not deliver.但由于反复的调查结果显示，新自由主义并没有确实无法提供。 Social mobility stalled or went in to reverse.社会的流动性停顿或到在扭转。 So what we have instead is not a society based on solid achievement but on the appearance of achievement; a facsimile of a true meritocracy.因此，我们反而不是一个社会建立在坚实的成就，但对外观的成就;的一份传真中一个真正的精英。 And while ‘pretend canvassers’ might be risible, a pretend society, with all the attendant psychoses, will in the long run be the real Blair/Brown legacy that will prove altogether more damning.而'假装助选'可能risible ，假装社会，与所有随之而来的精神变态，将在长远而言，成为真正的布莱尔/布朗的遗产将证明是完全更严厉。
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