You probably owe it to yourself to read this article, from one of the few members of the Labour Party with any credibility these days:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ur-jon-cruddas
Intelligent, knows where he's coming from, not afraid to throw punches. If Labour is to go anywhere it needs to stop listening to idiots and start listening to its own roots.
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New Labour has had increasingly little to say about these struggles. Indeed, by 2001 its policies were based essentially on a mythical middle England, drawn up by pollsters and located somewhere in the south-east, with affluence taken for granted. In this model, politics always had to be individualised. A leading cabinet member claimed that Labour's essential message was to help voters "earn and own". People were seen as being fixated only on themselves, with no wish to think in terms of collective experience. Aspiration was about buying more things rather than wanting to build the "good society".
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Pretty much gets to the heart of the soulless, pandering, directionless nature of New Labour that drove me up the wall several years ago. I live in a community, not a moated castle. I want to be part of a healthy society, not a focus group.