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Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
I still remember the 2010 Labour victory fondly.[/QUOTj

I bet , being in opposition obviously appeals to its new Labour followers
Er.... not the point.

'Centrist Blair type government' did not always win elections. They did some good things: mild redistribution in Brown budgets, Sure Start, some investment in public assets - though too often via PFI - a housing policy (thank you John Healey) and other progressive changes. They also engineered illegal wars, pandered to the Murdoch press, and continued major elements of Thatcherism without any shame. The shine went off and the centrist 'Blair type' politics of Blair and Brown paved the way for the return of Conservatism (with and without Liberal poodles). If your recipe for Labour electoral success is a return to that I think you are dead wrong.