It's a left wing opinion piece - you might as well ask if you've read the BNP literature when talking about immigration

For the last 25 years the British political landscape has been unnaturally skewed to the right.
We've endured having multiple choice of 3 or 4 parties all to the right of centre.
Politics became simply a quest for seats in Parliament and jobs for your cronies. Choose your politics based on it's likely success at the ballot box not on it's intrinsic worth.

We now have an overt restoration of balance to the political scene. There are other values, other philosophies, other choices being offered. Whatever your feelings about the resurgance of Socialist Values within the Labour Party, it should be welcomed. The parties of the right will not be talking consensus politics anymore. Policies will be under greater Parliamentary and national scrutiny than they have for many years.

There are so many points of conflict between the agenda now set out by the new leadership and the status quo that only a fool would predict what will emerghe as the crucial ground for either side. It is fair to say though that the domestic battle will be a simple choice -like that taken recently by the Greeks- between Austerity and Social Investment.

On a personal note, I have been amazed by the generally positive response that the Labour Conference has generated amongst friends and colleagues. I was also saddened by the responses of so many of my generation of 'old'Labour supporters who have forgotten the values that inspired the movement and been swayed by post-Thatcher Personality Politics.

Even if this restored Labour Party does not gain power it will still be a force to be reckoned with and a vital counterbalance to the control which the right have over almost every facit of British life.

In the same way that your arguments are null and void when Farage et al is attacked by the media and you won't listen to counter arguments.

In the same way that your arguments are null and void when Farage et al is attacked by the media and you won't listen to counter arguments.

For the last 25 years the British political landscape has been unnaturally skewed to the right.
We've endured having multiple choice of 3 or 4 parties all to the right of centre.
Politics became simply a quest for seats in Parliament and jobs for your cronies. Choose your politics based on it's likely success at the ballot box not on it's intrinsic worth.

We now have an overt restoration of balance to the political scene. There are other values, other philosophies, other choices being offered. Whatever your feelings about the resurgance of Socialist Values within the Labour Party, it should be welcomed. The parties of the right will not be talking consensus politics anymore. Policies will be under greater Parliamentary and national scrutiny than they have for many years.

There are so many points of conflict between the agenda now set out by the new leadership and the status quo that only a fool would predict what will emerghe as the crucial ground for either side. It is fair to say though that the domestic battle will be a simple choice -like that taken recently by the Greeks- between Austerity and Social Investment.

On a personal note, I have been amazed by the generally positive response that the Labour Conference has generated amongst friends and colleagues. I was also saddened by the responses of so many of my generation of 'old'Labour supporters who have forgotten the values that inspired the movement and been swayed by post-Thatcher Personality Politics.

Even if this restored Labour Party does not gain power it will still be a force to be reckoned with and a vital counterbalance to the control which the right have over almost every facit of British life.

So whose money are the Tories spending?
As an aside, I see that Roman Abramovitch is getting 45 million from the government to help his steel industry... That'll please those in Redcar