Apt comment

haveone November 21, 2007 1:17 AM

"Be careful what you wish for indeed....the sad fact is that when Labour finally gets thrown out (which is looking more likely to be sooner rather than later), it is their more progressive accomplishments that will be reversed, not their failures. The Conservatives will continue the Thatcherite pulse of the the 'New' part of Labour, while devastating the meager redistributive legacy of Brown's tenure as Chancellor...it is bit demoralizing, but it shows how pandering to the swing vote is never a sustainable policy becasue you may get power, but you can't ever be bold enough to make truly significant and sustainable changes....NewLab was always leaning too much toward the minimalist reforming reactionary social stance that made the LibDems seem like radical freedom fighters (quite a task really). Ah yes, the sad, yet inevitable decline and death of an idea (NewLabbism) that should never have really been allowed into adolescence."

astute comment on run of the mill grauniad article
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