The battle over this phoney centre excludes the majority
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1689911,00.html
Unlike Blair and Cameron, most people want an end to privatisation,
higher tax for the rich and a British withdrawal from Iraq
Seumas Milne
Thursday January 19, 2006
The Guardian
No one can doubt that we are in the endgame of the Blair era. Even if
the sense of crisis that gripped Downing Street in the run-up to
Christmas - when John Prescott lashed out at the government's plans for
schools, and Gordon Brown signalled his dissatisfaction with Blair's
European rebate deal - has passed, the prime minister's authority is
manifestly draining away. He has already been defeated by his own MPs
on the flagship terror bill; he has lost control of Labour's national
executive, and was unable even to get his candidate elected as general
secretary; and he now faces a string of backbench revolts, culminating
in the prospect of defeat on education reform, without a climbdown on
selection and local authority powers.
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