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Robin Friday's Ghost
Lenin did not have to stand for re election. Guevara was in power for just over a year. The MPs I mentioned weren't imo extreme but, if they were, that just supports my point. Which is that you don't have to ape the Tories to get elected.
Actually that wasn't my main point either. It was that the ever-increasing lurch of Labour to the right has robbed electors of a choice. They can now vote Tory or Tory Lite. Parties obviously have to compromise to some extent or else they'll die political virgins, never getting their hands dirty and achieving nothing. But they should have certain principles that are non negotiable. For Labour that was socialism. It was embedded in its constitution.
Kinnock was and us a ****.
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