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Talking to a Brick Wall: How New Labour Stopped Listening to the Voter and Why We Need a New Poli…
Author(s): Deborah Mattinson (Author)
- Publisher: Biteback Publishing
- Publication Date: 14 Jun. 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 184954056X
- ISBN-13: 9781849540568
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
–John Kampfner, The Sunday Times
“Mattinson’s engaging fly-on-the-wall tale of life as Brown’s favourite pollster. She had a ringside seat to observe the flawed characters of Tony Blair and Brown and their henchmen Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell.” –John Kampfner, The Sunday Times
“Mattinson’s fascinating account… Mattinson addresses this question head on. “The voter is not without blame in this unhappy saga,” she writes. “Always ready to complain, but unwilling to roll up their own sleeves, the electorate has colluded with the political parties to create a world of Peter Pan politics: where the voter lives in a perpetual childlike state and never grows up.” –Chris Mullin, New Statesman
“Rather good!”
–Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
“Mattinson’s engaging fly-on-the-wall tale of life as Brown’s favourite pollster. She had a ringside seat to observe the flawed characters of Tony Blair and Brown and their henchmen Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell.” — John Kampfner, The Sunday Times
“Compelling” –Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
“Contains more insight and less bile than many memoirs” –Andrew Sparrow, Guardian Andrew Sparrow, Guardian
“Fascinating.” –Chris Mullin, New Statesman
“I was only trying to boost sales!”
–David Cameron in PMQs
“Deborah Mattinson’s book goes beyond the soap opera of New Labour to explain its inner mechanics, the decline of the Brown years and – crucially – what the public really thought. A very important and hugely intelligent political text, and a must-read for anyone with an interest in how politics and popular opinion interact.” –Matthew d’Ancona, Evening Standard
“Deborah Mattinson’s book goes beyond the soap opera of New Labour to explain its inner mechanics, the decline of the Brown years and – crucially – what the public really thought. A very important and hugely intelligent political text, and a must-read for anyone with an interest in how politics and popular opinion interact.” –Matthew d’Ancona, Evening Standard
“Deborah Mattinson’s book goes beyond the soap opera of New Labour to explain its inner mechanics, the decline of the Brown years and – crucially – what the public really thought. A very important and hugely intelligent political text, and a must-read for anyone with an interest in how politics and popular opinion interact.” –Matthew d’Ancona, Evening Standard
Her passion for her trade radiates throughout… compelling –Peter Kenyon, Chartist Magazine
Her passion for her trade radiates throughout… compelling –Peter Kenyon, Chartist Magazine
