2010 May | Lunchtime Legend

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Ralph Ferrett, Male, 33,
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Opposition
Pridebowl
18 hours and 41 minutes ago
Drippings Of The Past
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18 hours and 43 minutes ago
Cement Sidewalk
Pridebowl
18 hours and 46 minutes ago
Cause
Pridebowl
18 hours and 48 minutes ago
A Lonely Portion
Pridebowl
18 hours and 52 minutes ago
Booze
Pridebowl
18 hours and 53 minutes ago
The Soft Song
Pridebowl
18 hours and 56 minutes ago
Nine-Digit
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19 hours and 1 minutes ago
Nine-Digit
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19 hours and 12 minutes ago
Impropriety
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19 hours and 15 minutes ago

What next for the Labour Party?

Whatever hopes and dreams people may have for a “new politics” or for a different pluralist model in a world after electoral reform, the Truth is there is only one option now for those who oppose government. That is the Labour Party, if the Tories are not the principal party in Government after the next election then they won’t be replaced by Lib Dems, Greens, or one of the plethora of Left Wing Parties. That is the realpolitik.

What should be the questions for Trade Unions and the left is:-

What kind

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Some idle speculation about the future for Political Parties.

Providing the Con-Dem coalition doesn’t volcanically explode in only a few months due to falling outs and fundamental incompatibility then there is every chance that for good or for bad the coalition will re-shape, and re-mould British politics and it could end up having a profound effect on our party structure. Particularly if voting reform happens.

I am massively in favour of voting reform, I think changing “the rules of the game” will have a massive impact on how the game is played. And a proper pluralism in our Party system,

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Five reasons to be optimistic despite the Con-Dem Government.

Let’s be honest, Labour losing the election and the Tories getting the keys to number 10 is not, and cannot be considered a good thing. Hard times will come for the country, and the trade union movement, and working people in general. But despite this I think there are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic that this may not be quite as bad as we had feared.

1. The Tories didn’t win.

This election was there for them, the Labour party had been in power for 13 years was becoming deeply unpopular.

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