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?
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2 comments:
What agreessive Neos are there in the Labour Party. Gisella Stuart i like but if they mean millipefde and his like they forget what he has been saying to the left constituency.
This dissonance in Labour fasinates me though HG it has wlaways bneeen there to some extent of course
Frank Field must be thinking about the release from the attic. And some of the 'lords' like Adonis.
The chances of it all coming apart for the Labour party must be high, it's that threat that's the main force in accepting Mrs Rochester as leader isn't it?
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