something more appropriate, such as the Guido Fawkes' Blog. @Ayub Khan. You claim that a lurch to the left will leave us in opposition for many years. Do you know this for sure? 100%? No? I thought not. For 14 years a right wing Blairite New Labour did absolutely nothing for this country or its citizens. Maybe what people want is an opposition party that actually has opposite views to the present Govt, instead of looking remarkable similar. It's heartening to watch you finally getting all that bad stuff out in the open, although I rather think you've left it a bit late for the bloodletting if you want a sniff of a chance for the 2015 General Election. Seriously, if there's one thing history should teach you, it's that you can be ideologically pure and leftist and in Opposition, or you can be pragmatic, flexible and centrist and in Government. As I've said before, it's your call -- I'm not going to vote for you, anyway -- but, if the Left really want to make the argument, they do have to sully their purity and actually come up with some attractive and optimistic reasons why anyone who's not a complete politics geek (i.e. 99% of the population) should vote for a hard-Left policy portfolio. Of course, if Genosse Forlonehope was serious -- and is typical of thinking on the Left -- there is no way the Left deserves to be in power. Actually, there's no way anyone thinking that