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{"Image ImageDescription": "David Miliband Speech at The London School of Economics; The perspectives and budgets of the EU on internal as well as foreign policy owe far too much to the 1960s and 1980s. The right's recipe of fiscal retrenchment offers little. We must forge an opportunity to be internationalists of a hard headed and serious kind, or our policy solutions will have no traction at all.\n\nI want to make a final point about how these ideas are developed. In the 1990s, the renewal came through think tanks. That is important. But it is not enough.\n\nEight decades ago Tawney identified the perils of government as a giant problem solver: \"When it ought to have called people to a long and arduous struggle, it too often did the opposite. It courted them with the hope of cheaply won benefits...It demanded too little and offered too much.\"\n\nThis is fundamental because we express our political soul in the way we do politics as much as our policies and programmes; and processes that are top down produce solutions that are top down. We need a different mindset.\n\nI am spending some of my time on the Movement for Change - a leadership academy for community organisers. It is a new way of rebuilding the labour movement. It is starting small: just a few staff, but with a big idea - to train 10 000 people before the next election in the skills necessary to use power locally. These are going to be the people who think through how to make welfare work; how to build private sector capacity; now to make the public sector a real engine of partnership. Above all they will help build confidence in communities to be players and not just spectators in the dramas of life.\n\nBecause if you think about it, this should be a time when the reformist left comes into its own. The realities of an interdependent world speak to the deepest traditions of progressive politics.\n\nThe rationale of the centre left is not just that we are forced to share; it is that by sharing we create and not divide.\n\nThis is ...", "Image Copyright": "POOL"}