Definitions
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- proper noun A term used in some
media for theculture of the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, closely associated with the New Labourgovernment of that period.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Truly life in their "Cool Britannia" just gets shittier and shittier.
Right of entry removed by New Labour: Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill FIDO The Dog 2009
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He has to be, either that or he has gone completely stark staring mad, a loon trapped in his own bizarre "Cool Britannia" where all is well.
James Gordon Brown - Showing signs of senility? The cunt go's into denial mode. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Just so true - that must be what they meant by the term "Cool Britannia"....
Harry Enfield - L is for Labour, L is for Lice. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia"
Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia" FIDO The Dog 2009
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So now after 11 years they have decided to recreate the 1936 Olympics here in "Cool Britannia" and Brown is going to clean up Berlin sorry London.
Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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So now after 11 years they have decided to recreate the 1936 Olympics here in "Cool Britannia" and Brown is going to clean up Berlin sorry London.
Road tax - How you are unable to use roads you pay for. FIDO The Dog 2008
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The Lone Voice: Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia"
Gordonomics - Life on the streets in Gordon Browns "Cool Britannia" FIDO The Dog 2009
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And we know the results: the invention of 'Cool Britannia' as a piece of serious research by the Foreign Policy Centre think tank; the re-nationalisation of Railtrack which maintains the UK's railways; more impressively, Britain's 'New Deal' which spawned revitalised communities, a national system of personal welfare and career advisers, and launched a hundred other social policies across the West including the 'baby bond' where every child gets a trust fund topped up at by the government that can only be accessed at 18.
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When his low-riding jeans and ripped lace dresses burst onto the scene, the young designer seemed to capture the new Cool Britannia movement.
A Fashion Star Leaves the Stage Christina Passariello 2010
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When his low-riding jeans and ripped lace dresses burst onto the scene, the young designer seemed to capture the new Cool Britannia movement.
A Fashion Star Leaves the Stage Christina Passariello 2010
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