Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 週二， 2008年6月3日 
Via通過 UK Watch英國觀賞 | 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. |這一切似乎相當無聊，現在，但它並非如此，前不久，許多對自由離開充分預計財政大臣布朗加冕提供一個重大的變化，政治方向，而不僅僅是一個，雖然表示歡迎，改變作風。
It was always a fantasy, of course, and Brown did not waste much time in disillusioning them.它一直是幻想，當然，布朗並沒有浪費太多時間在他們失望的。 But what was the basis for the wishful thinking in the first place?但什麼是基礎，為一廂情願的想法擺在首位？ 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尋求地地道道的餘地，布萊爾與一連串的'狗口哨'向黨的忠實。 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.這些假定的'價值觀' ，從而給予不必要的公信力，由於一發熱媒體不斷發表公告對牙齒-暴露了戰役幕後之間，所以所謂的blairities和brownities控制黨，並因為太多獲准他們認為，為的靈魂。 After all, if the intense internecine warfare was not evidence of a deep ideological divide, what was it about?畢竟，如果在激烈的自相殘殺的戰爭是沒有證據了深刻的思想鴻溝，它是什麼呢？ 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.之後，倒霉的抖動超過今年秋天的大選中， fêting的撒切爾，延遲在nationalising Northern Rock的， 10便士的崩潰以及更多，最終在戰術領導到crewe ＆ nantwitch由選舉產生，謎可能已經得到解決。 New Labour’s strategy at Crewe is what caused the penny to drop.新的勞工的策略在crewe是什麼造成的竹篙下降。
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，這裡是一個黨，一旦堂而皇之地宣布，它已'沒有問題的人越來越骯髒的豐富' ，並已花了十年的一半屈服在祭壇上的特權，現在企圖欺騙選民發揮工人階級卡。 More than anything it is the little details that suggest the gig is up.比什麼都重要，這是小細節，建議檢票了。 For example it has been reported that voters had been woken up at 4am by callers pretending to be Tory canvassers.舉例來說，它有報導說，選民已驚醒了在4am由來電者假裝被保守黨助選。 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.和四輪驅動的車輛festooned與藍色汽球根據一篇文章，在獨立已careering通過安理會屋-更多假裝保守黨助選。 Next minute they’re pointing the finger at the Tories for being soft on immigrants.明年分鐘他們指出，指責保守黨為軟對入境者。 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'你不知道什麼您正在做的！會嘲笑這些clunking不一致的，在新的勞工訊息在任何足球地面在該國。 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.純粹的絕望，恐慌和由任何經濟狀況的做法是必要的，但不能匹配由殘忍的特點，布萊爾政權的條款交貨。 Instead, there is an absurdly amateur element that would have had Blair apparatchiks recoiling in horror.相反，有一個荒謬的業餘元素，這將有布萊爾apparatchiks recoiling在恐怖。 Which raises an interesting question.其中提出了一個有趣的問題。 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?如果像現在幾乎普遍接受的，布朗v布萊爾拔河從來是思想上的基礎，那麼，為何有' brownites '在所有？ What were they for?是什麼，他們呢？ 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.這是當您簽出布朗的內閣，果醬包裝，因為這是與sycophantic時間服務器誰可從來沒有希望作出了削減，在布萊爾的時代，它開始使意識。 There never was any genuine Brownite faction devoted either to leader or cause at all.從來沒有任何真正的brownite派專門要么領導人或事業在所有。 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.什麼是被個人誰知道，布萊爾-布朗的協議， hitched自己布朗的潮流了從無到有，以上磨削個人野心匹配的深入與冷眼睛的估計，他們的真實能力。 In short, sub-prime ‘Blairites’ to a man/woman—and they all know it.在短期內，小組總理' blairites '一名男子/女子和他們都知道這一點。
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.一位資深國會議員引述勞工，在倫敦標準晚報說，在災難性crewe nantwitch由競選， “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.如果他們認為這起嚴重，在英格蘭北部的，這不算什麼，以這樣的期待，以人在該國南部和倫敦誰以為階級戰爭是過去的事。 Down here people do not hate those who are better off—they aspire to join them.”這裡的人不恨那些誰是更好的小康，他們渴望加入他們“ 。
Many indeed may well ‘aspire’ but jumping classes is an altogether different matter, as a recent survey shows.事實上，很多可能'渴望' ，但跳班是一個完全不同的事，作為一個最近的一項調查顯示。 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.以百萬計的英國人是陷入債務融資的生活方式，超越他們的手段，只是因為他們不想給的出現，正在中產階層。
An astonishing 15 million people have racked up debts of £35billion despite their income being below the national average, the survey found.令人驚嘆的1500萬人有racked了債務£ 35billion ，儘管他們的收入低於全國平均水平，調查發現。
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中產階層的家庭帶來不少於1.5萬英鎊， 1年和許多依賴於信用卡和銀行貸款，基金，他們的消費。
The average income for working class people is £23,000 and £33,000 for the middle class.平均收入為勞工階層的人是23000英鎊和33000英鎊為中產階級。
But rent and mortgage payments are nearly the same at £366 for a working class household compared with £334 for the middle classes.但租金和抵押金幾乎相同，在366英鎊，為勞工階層的家庭相比，英鎊334為中產階層。
Those considered to be in the ‘upper middle class’ were found to earn more, with average earnings of almost £52,000 a year.那些被認為是在'中上階層'被發現，以賺取更多，平均收入52000英鎊，幾乎是一年。
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 ，進行了研究，說： '這是令人擔憂地看到，所以很多人都支出和借貸超出了他們的手段，盡可能保持與他人的生活方式。
Rather optimistically, personal finance expert Sue Hayward said that it all showed ‘the class divide was shrinking’.而樂觀，個人財務專家控告海沃德說，這一切表明， '階級鴻溝正在縮小。 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.其實它表明的是，聯同日益擴大的貧富鴻溝，富國和窮國之間，在政治上較顯著的階層之間的鴻溝的工作和中產階層，也是與時俱進。 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，因為在現實世界中，相反，神話，它是勞動階層，而不是中產階層，這實在是擴大。 But if Ms Hayward is confused it is understandable.但如果女士海沃德是混淆了這是可以理解的。 With his slogan ‘we’re all middle class now’ Blair seemed to promise a meritocracy.與他的口號'我們所有的中產階級現在，英國首相布萊爾似乎承諾精英。 But as repeated surveys show, neo-liberalism did not and indeed could not deliver.但由於反复的調查結果顯示，新自由主義並沒有確實無法提供。 Social mobility stalled or went in to reverse.社會的流動性停頓或到在扭轉。 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，我們反而不是一個社會建立在堅實的成就，但對外觀的成就;的一份傳真中一個真正的精英。 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'假裝助選'可能risible ，假裝社會，與所有隨之而來的精神變態，將在長遠而言，成為真正的布萊爾/布朗的遺產將證明是完全更嚴厲。
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