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Article: New Labour has only itself to blame
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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Labour may wish to persist in believing that their defeat in the
Glasgow East by-election is a judgement on Gordon Brown. But they'd
be kidding themselves if they did. The huge swing to the SNP is
signal of disdain for the entire New Labour project, and one that
has been a long time coming.
No one in Glasgow East believes that there is a more credible
Labour prime minister waiting in the wings, to be nudged into
immediate, glorious and decisive action by a "judgement on Gordon
Brown". No one in the rest of the country believes that either,
including the near-bankrupt Labour Party. Why would Labour have been
so docile in its acceptance of Brown as the heir apparent in the
first place, and so ...
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