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Thread #157188   Message #3708107
Posted By: Richard Bridge
11-May-15 - 02:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Return!....of....New Labour!!!
Subject: RE: BS: The Return!....of....New Labour!!!
The immediate indications are that Labour is moving massively to the right. They will lose pretty much all of their old core voters. FOr example if it goes the way I think it will I will no longer be able to hold my nose and vote Labour.

But the conservatives have also leapt to the right - to the lunatic right in some cases - for example Gove is back centre stage, tasked it would seem with ensuring that any possibility of government being held to account for illegal actions (or indeed for any possibility for the poor to obtain justice) is destroyed.

So while Blue Labour may gain a foothold in what is asserted to be the middle ground there will be a large unrepresented area: the left ground.

So possibly if Left Unity and TUSC get their act together, and indeed get together with each other under a unity banner, there may be a substantial ground for them to occupy.