Join the Lib-Dems.

I may well be accused of 'triumphalism' here but I think the reason the Labour Party is at a dead end is that, in the minds of most people, they achieved their main ojectives years ago. We have a Welfare State, State pensions, Medical Care free at the point of access, a minimum wage and all sorts of legislation to protect our rights. In an attempt to stay relevant the Labour party keeps trying to fight the old battles over and over again and fails to face up to the fact that the real new challenge is reducing the level of debt we leave to future generations.

Old Labour members will blame Maggie for the collapse of heavy industry. Others remember the political ambitions and practical intransigence of the Trade Unions. Still there as evidenced by the recent rail strikes. Also, and this has been said before, once we lost the captive markets of Empire we were over-producing industrially, with increasingly obsolete machinery and practices, and for thirty years everybody, Labour and Tories alike, refused to take responsible action. Maggie was forced to bite the bullet and you all hate her for it.

At least the Lin Dems are not tied to the Unions. The general public might look favourably on that.