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- Product code: 240408
- ISBN: 1845296052,
ISBN13: 9781845296056,
256 pages, paperback
Published by Constable & Robinson in 2007
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Click here to read "Being Fair to Tony Blair" by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson, authors of 'Fantasy Island'.
Description of Fantasy Island |
We live in a country fantasising about its ability to run up debts seemingly without end, to enjoy high-paid employment for which it is not qualified, to project military power that it does not possess and in general to assume, in defiance of the evidence, a superior economic and political position in relation to most of the rest of the world. Then there is the apparent conviction that limitless growth can co-exist with environmental protection, that the over-borrowed and abundantly staffed state machine is actually being courageously pruned even while its payroll rises and, finally, that the just-around-the-corner radiant future is one in which will work in the 'creative economy'. Welcome to Fantasy Island. He may be the most spectacular election winner in modern British political history but Blair leaves behind him a seedy dreamworld mired in debt and bankruptcy, drifting into a crisis of employment and employability, hallucinating into existence a diplomatic and military role that it cannot possibly afford. It's time to take stock of the future he and Brown have mapped out for us while there's still time to do something about it.
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Customer Reviews of Fantasy Island- great insight, they got it about right. Wish I'd taken notice of their predicitions
- by stevieg on 19/02/2009
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About Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson |
Larry Elliott is the Economics Editor of the Guardian and Dan Atkinson is the Economics Editor of the Daily Mail. They are also the authors of The Age of Insecurity, which was published in 1998 as Blair was settling into power.
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