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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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17 Feb 2005 02:54:22 AM |
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OT: How to defeat New Labour - and still re-elect Labour |
How to defeat New Labour - and still re-elect Labour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1416230,00.html
Progressives are right to fear that their votes will be used against
them
David Clark
Thursday February 17, 2005
The Guardian
It is testament to how anxious New Labour is about the coming general
election that Tony Blair has decided to embark on a charm offensive to
woo his party's traditional support. Usually, this is beneath him. If
his political base has a purpose, it is to play patsy as he
triangulates to the right by lecturing it on the need to "modernise or
die". Yet this was not the message from Gateshead at the weekend.
Alarmed by opinion polls showing a significant gap between those who
identify with Labour and those who intend to vote for it, the prime
minister worries that many core voters are about to act on their
alienation by defecting or abstaining. So he wants to kiss and make up.
David Clark
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/1489f4c7f7e2a4ee
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