The Labour Party has a restricted socialist vision of the welfare state as a machine or `system' which can be run through sound administration, This view underpins both local and national labourism, seeking technical solutions to political problems.Labourism simply takes on the form of the state as a model for administration without questioning either the formula tion of ends or the construction of means. The Labour Party should break with this technocratic tradition and develop a new language, neither administrative nor managerial. which builds on the experiences of those who work within the welfare state.
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