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Published Date: 29 June 2009
By Greg Rosen
WHEN rumours started circulating in the aftermath of the European election results that Gordon Brown was drawing up a "National Plan", it was perhaps unsurprising that more venerable political commentators had a sudden feeling of déjà vu.
For it was the National Plan drawn up by Gordon Brown's near namesake, Labour's then deputy leader George Brown – whose title of "First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs" was almost as gilded as Peter Mandelson's most rec...



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Marian,

29/06/2009 09:30:35
Still peddling the 'New Labour can win the next election' line I see. I'm afraid that you are entirely incorrect. There is no possibility, none, that New Labour can win. To win there must be tolerance. That is gone, subsumed in that contemptuous loathing that only the people of the UK, pushed beyond their normal equable fairness, can really manage. And we have been so pushed.

New Labour will be annihilated at the next election. It will lose votes and 'safe' heartland seats to Plaid Cymru in Wales and to the SNP in Scotland. In England the Libdems will take over previously safe New Labour seats in major Northern urban areas; the Tories will take not only the suburbs, the market towns and the rural seats, but will rip England's cities free also. Brown will be very lucky if New Labour retain a hundred seats next time round. I'm sure there will remain a few New Labour tribalists, blinkered and unable to turn from their well-worn path - there are some who will post here - but the majority of ex-New Labour voters will vote for someone else For anyone else. Just to get rid of New Labour.

And do you know why all this will happen? Because New Labour have been dishonest with the voters, and they have been found out. That ultimate political sin, that thing above all that we as a nation cannot and will not tolerate. Moreover they have lied to us, not once, but repeatedly for more than a decade. And now all the lies are being exposed. The myth of Brown's economic "genius" has coming tumbling down and the whole shoddy edifice of debt-ridden idiocy is displayed for all of us to see. The overbearing authoritarian intrusive 'we know best how you should live your lives' contempt for the citizens is dragged with its monstrous pile of petty paperwork from behind the 'progressive liberal' rhetoric. We see New Labour for what it truly is, for what it has truly done, and we don't like it.
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El Franko,

29/06/2009 16:17:36
Well put, Marian #1!

 

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