Abstract
This paper will seek to demonstrate how New Labour's incorporation of a particular substantive notion of citizenship, within their public discourse, has been a factor in sustaining their electoral success, by gaining popular support and legitimacy, due to their particular ideological discursive construction of the bad citizen. It is argued this discursive construction manipulates, within a significant part of the electorate, a pre-ideological enjoyment that is structured in fantasy.
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