I would remind the poster that the deregulation of financial services, which he says could never have happened under the Conservatives, was actually started by the Thatcher regime. Last I heard, she was a bit of a Conservative. As for the Labour Party being officially dead, it seems to me that every time a party loses an election in this country, it's "officially dead". Yet, within one or two more elections, it becomes "officially undead" and the other one becomes "officially dead". I'd say it is a rock-solid cert that the 2020 election will be between Labour and the Tories. They will both be a dead loss, but they will both be relatively undead.