Reply #14: I agree totally, Lefty...

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... except that, although I know what you mean about being too right wing to be Labourites, I fear we must accept that the old Labour Party - anodyne though it was - is now dead and buried and that the odious right-wing populism of the obnoxious Clarke and increasingly pathetic Blunkett is the mainstream of the Christian Democrat monstrosity which has replaced it.

A thought. If someone had made a movie about a once-left-wing disabled Labour Minister turned right-wing rabble-rouser who screws a rich, married Tory bitch who bankrolls a right-wing scandal sheet, edited by a malevolent Sebastian Flyte pose-alike MP, and then is shafted and ruined by her, the critics would complain about the heavy-handed and amateurish symbolism, wouldn't they?

Not only is Bliarism stranger than fiction ... it's less competent.

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