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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:20 AM
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Blair's Labour Party hasn't been expelled from Socialist International?
What the fuck? I'm surprised that the NDP hasn't tried to get rid of them...lol

(Sorry if I'm wrong. But both SI and the Labour Party use the same symbol.)
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Mairead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:42 AM
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1. That baffles me, too. If there's anything less-socialist than New Labour,
it can only be the Tories.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:44 AM
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2. New Labour meet New Democrats
:) I had to say it.
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Mairead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 09:39 AM
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3. Spot on, John
Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 09:40 AM by Mairead
They're two of a wretched kind.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 11:11 AM
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5. I felt lol so tempted
Seriously I bet theres a british LLC, Labour Leadership Council ala DLC.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 10:23 AM
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4. And that's now debatable
After the Tories saying they want to abolish the tuition fees that 'New' Labour introduced for UK universities (Labour are talking about massive increases for them, for the most popular universities, instead), the Tories have now said they want to change the increases for the state old age pension back to being linked to the increase in wage rates, rather than the (less generous) retail price increases.
The link to wage rates was introduced by Labour in the 1970s; linking to retail prices was introduced by Thatcher in the 80s.
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