How Long In The Wilderness?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33619645
I don't often agree with His Tonyness but he's bang on here:
//"Mr Blair said Labour could win again - but not from a "traditional leftist platform" and said it had to "move on".//

[Marshwarble]

I think people have got a lot more selfish and this "we're all in this together" will not work. In fact it hasn't worked since the 1970s.

[Gromit]

Perhaps it is moving on from Tony?

[Old_Geezer]

This was always Tony's position. Blow the principles and beliefs the party stands for, shift to a position it doesn't really believe in, in order to get votes.

Having both major parties pushing a similar agenda only really works when the public is fed up of the incumbents but want more of the same. Otherwise they stick with the status quo.

What the Labour party needs is to stick with their basic beliefs, they can change the details and shift slightly over time, and await the public becoming aware of the downside of 'everyone for themselves' values.

[sandyRoe]

They need to be slightly left of centre and not move to the extremes in reaction to the Tory swing to the right.
Corbyn is well meaning but he'll not win a general election.

[ToraToraTora]

Moving back, Gromit, the reds are no longer under the bed the're running the party!

[Khandro]

I see, like Mr Tsipras - the man who got it wrong, Tony no longer wears a tie, could there be any other connections?

[youngmafbog]

I still back Corbyn.

Can you imagine him visiting the Whorehouse?

[youngmafbog]

*** spell checker - White House

[ToraToraTora]

Freudian slip YMB?

[youngmafbog]

Spell checker, but he looks the sort who would frequent the former not the later.