This is what happens when you spend 11 years running scared of the tories. They catch up.

Gordon Brown engineered the Tax Credit Programme which was the worst-run government welfare programme in history. I used to work in it. He was chronically disloyal to his own leader for years and should have been shovelled back to the back benches years ago.

As chancellor, he left the Inland Revenue and the rest of the civil service in such a state that even if the government raised taxes to deal with poverty and greed the government couldn't even collect the money.

We need a socialist Labour leader for the last two years of this government that will lay the foundations for victory at the election after next by:

Repealing all the anti-union legislation passed since 1979

Making it amandatory for all employers to recognise trade unions

Making company directors personally liable for any tax avoidance by their companies

Making the same directors Criminally liable for any deaths or injuries among their workforces

Nationalise the railways and bring down fares

Nationalise the Utilities and drop prices

Scrapping Trident and the new aircraft carriers

Binging home the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

Scrapping ID Cards

Rebuilding the Legal Aid system

Reintroduce proper Unemployment benefit and stop bullying people with families into accepting low-paid casual jobs

And finally, sacking anyone from the cabinet or the NEC who hasn't had a real job.

We're going to lose the next election but if we pass the right laws while we've still got some time we can at least lay the foundations for rebuilding the Labour movement.

We're going to lose to the Tories next time but we don't have to make life easy for them. If we put in measures that will benefit the people Labour was founded to serve then they are going to have to justify repealing them - or just swallow them like the Tories had to when they got back in after the Attlee government.

Time's running out.