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I think next year you'll see Labour in third place, you'll see a few UKIP and Green MPs, Plaid Cmryu and SNP getting even stronger.
Labour have to take a beating this time round. Its true you have your Tory Grandee's with their moats, but can you really compare that to the Two Home Secretary? To that idiotic woman from Luton?
They are all on the take to some degree, but people can deal with Douglas Hogg's moat and George Osbourne's private tennis court, and they can deal with John Prescott's broken toilet seats and maximum food allowance on expenses... thats the old kind of sleaze. The likes of Blears and Darling flipping their homes over and over again to play the property game is something new. And the govt is supposed to set higher standards.
Brown had a chance. When he came in he said he was a real Labour man, not a Blairite... and time and time again he has been shown to be weak, indecisive, obsessed with spin. The only way to remake the Labour party as a working class movement is to demolish the current PLP and chuck out 3/4 of them. You can keep Dennis Skinner and his like.
The main thing I hope from the next election is a Lib-Con alliance, but I cant see Labour doing well enough to keep the Tories from an overall majority - but the country would benefit from electoral reform, and I cannot imagine how we couldnt benefit from Vince Cable being chancellor.
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The Gospel of Thomas
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