At the risk of sounding partisan, this sounds, sadly, typical. They have the right buzzwords out there—co-operative, collaborative, being nice, helping people—but it becomes hard to know what they actually mean by these words.
Would you say that the third way they're talking about is providing more clarity or simply more confusion about what their position is? Do you know what the substance of the third way proposals are, or is that just another set of nice-sounding concepts without clarity?