If Labour fails to be a party of the radical left, it faces death

Published: 13 January, 2011

• I OFFER anyone a wager.... Labour will not be back in power for a generation.  

Listening to their tormented and reactive drivel they have learned nothing from their fall from office last year.

One brave former minister dared to discuss the possibility of decriminalising drugs.  This was dismissed out of hand and yet we all know that crime and drugs have a positive correlation.

Now they are moaning because prisoners are being given the right to vote. Big deal! It may have passed Labour’s attention that these prisoners are incarcerated, they have lost their freedom.  

I realise that the former Machiavellian administration is living in the shadow of complicity in torture, extraordinary rendition, and the worst civil liberties impingements within the last couple of centuries.

If Labour does not wake up and become the radical left that was once at its heart, it is in danger of dying. 

Ed Miliband is failing miserably. Mainstream all the way... 

Blair got my vote once, and then I realised what a cad he was. I am yearning to return to my party. 

Why is my party not yearning to return to me?

GORDON McINTOSH
Granville Square,  WC1