Dead to rights

Having written all kinds of elaborated comments on Thursday's elections, I like Craig Murray's remarks better:

"For Labour, perhaps the most disastrous thing is the loss of five hundred councillors from their already shattered activist base. Added to the disappearance of their dominance in Wales and Scotland, it is the blow to the morale of their troops, already shrivelled by Iraq, that is so dangerous. Labour now consists of an extraordinary mixture of trade unionists, ageing loyal but unhappy socialists, and aggressive young neo-conservatives. Look to see the latter leaving the sinking ship for the Tories in the next year or two."

Says it all. Whatever is the point of the Labour party when there should be a 21st century party of democratic progressives. We have one right of centre, why are we stuck with a prehistoric reptile on the left of centre in the UK?