New Labour/Animal Farm

Today I read the book Animal Farm by George Orwell in a single sitting. It is a clever book which uses the microcosm of a farm to demonstrate how revolutions are corrupted. If it has one fault, it is that the analogy has no equivalent to the method our society used to achieve equality, i.e. through gradual non violent reform. Animals on a farm would not have been able to do this. The one fault in revolution highlighted is that all the things which we hold to be bad through common sense are easily reintroduced simply by changing the name of that thing. Thus it is demonstrated that our society would be better maintained if we do two things: the first, speed up the process wherein wisdom is broadly accepted and recognised as common sense; and the second is that we should not allow our leaders to keep spin doctors on staff. Alistair Campbell, for example, should not have been employed as his job when it comes down to it was to do nothing more than to confuse the public in a way that was advantageous to the government. In fact I think there are many parallels with New Labour to Napoleons' regime. They started out as left wing and 'of the people', and have gradually abandoned their policies to end up identical to the opposition.