The Guardian reports today that "Labour party figures who backed Gordon Brown's rise to the leadership last year expressed deep disillusionment yesterday at his "disastrous" return to Blairite policies." They mean of course, COMPASS.
Hello...... when did Brown EVER in recent history promise anything else other than the New Labour status quo. Jon Trickett ( who backed Brown for leader like 300-plus MPs) now warns sagely, "We are in a very dangerous position where our core vote does not feel represented, and those people that moved across from Thatcher to Blair are now saying, for the first time, they can see themselves voting for Cameron. We are in a pincer trap."
Look, Mr Trickett. You were warned of this a year ago. What did you do? Completely ignored the warnings emanating from the left and supported a frankly New Labour agenda. Stop re-inventing history.
Likewise Neal Lawson, who told a joint Progress/Compass meeting that when Brown took over last summer, "we saw a new leadership style, with new ideas. Somehow over the autumn that got completely lost. The party has become demoralised as a consequence. The polls are showing this reversion to the old New Labour politics of Blairism is not where the country wants to be."
There is no "reversion ." Brown has been consistent throughout. One wishes the same could be said of COMPASS, which having fallen prey to self-delusion, now seeks to blame the Prime Minister for doing exactly what he said he would do .
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Thursday, 20 March 2008
COMPASS STILL IN LA-LA LAND
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