As Andy Burnham delivered his conference speech to the Labour faithful yesterday, it was hard not to recall Jeremy Corbyn’s words after the party’s shattering 2019 election defeat.(昨天，当安迪·伯纳姆向工党忠实支持者发表大会演讲时，人们很难不回想起杰里米·科尔宾在工党2019年大选惨败后说过的话。) “I am proud that on austerity(紧缩政策), on corporate power, on inequality and the climate emergency,” he wrote for this publication, “we have won the arguments(赢得了论战) and rewritten the terms of political debate(改写了政治辩论的规则).” Given Boris Johnson’s 80-seat majority, widespread mockery(嘲笑) ensued.
昨天，当安迪·伯纳姆向工党忠实支持者发表大会演讲时，人们很难不回想起杰里米·科尔宾在工党2019年大选惨败后说过的话。“我为我们在紧缩、企业权力、不平等和气候紧急状态上的立场感到自豪，”他为本报撰文写道，“我们赢得了论战，改写了政治辩论的规则。”鉴于鲍里斯·约翰逊当时拥有80席多数优势，随之而来的是广泛的嘲讽。
But when it comes to(就……而言) rhetoric(修辞，花言巧语), who can now deny that the left has won the argument? A Labour prime minister has declared that “Britain has been on the wrong path for a long time”, listing five villains(罪魁祸首): “Deindustrialisation, deregulation, privatisation, austerity, Brexit.” His speech was infused with class politics, as he condemned a society “run for vested interests, not in the public interest, with power held in too few hands”.(他的演讲充满阶级政治色彩，谴责一个“为既得利益而非公共利益服务、权力掌握在少数人手中”的社会。)
但就修辞而言，如今谁能否认左翼赢得了论战？一位工党首相宣称“英国长期以来走错了路”，并列举了五大罪魁：“去工业化、放松管制、私有化、紧缩、脱欧。”他的演讲充满阶级政治色彩，谴责一个“为既得利益而非公共利益服务、权力掌握在少数人手中”的社会。
When he committed to break with(承诺与……决裂) the “flawed thinking of the last 40 years”, he lumped together(混为一谈) Conservative and Labour governments. He has already repeatedly labelled the culprit(罪魁祸首): neoliberalism(新自由主义). This has long been the received wisdom of the left: that as Clement Attlee’s postwar government established a social-democratic consensus that the Tories upheld for a generation, so Margaret Thatcher bequeathed a settlement that New Labour maintained.(这长期以来一直是左翼的共识：正如克莱门特·艾德礼的战后政府建立了社会民主主义共识、保守党维持了一代人之久，玛格丽特·撒切尔也留下了一套新自由主义的安排，而新工党将其延续了下来。)
当他承诺与“过去40年的错误思维”决裂时，他把保守党和工党政府混为一谈。他已多次给罪魁祸首贴上标签：新自由主义。这长期以来一直是左翼的共识：正如克莱门特·艾德礼的战后政府建立了社会民主主义共识、保守党维持了一代人之久，玛格丽特·撒切尔也留下了一套新自由主义的安排，而新工党将其延续了下来。