Unite Or Die

Afternoon,

The current political situation in the United Kingdom is a unacceptable one for many Social Liberal voters, such as myself. The Labour government has in the main achieved a lot for social justice and for hard-working families, such as the minimum wage and Sure-Start, helping babies and young families have the best possible start in life.

However, with the positives, there have been a lot of mistakes, particularly in the past 12 months, with the debacle over the imprisonment of suspected terrorists for 42 days and worse arguably, the terrible 10 pence tax fiasco - which was to be fair, down to MPs not reading the small print in the budget.

Recently, I have become a regular reader of the Conservative Libertarian blogger, Guido Fawkes, and there is a link to his blog on the right-hand side of the page. Guido has been undermining Chairman Brown ad infintum, and the way that the right dominate the blogging scene is a great concern. Of course, there are left-liberal bloggers like myself as well as Rachel from North London, as well as those who are sympathetic to Labour's core beliefs, such as Recess Monkey.

The political scene in this country has become too centred, where once upon a time, you would have three mainstream parties, one left, one right and one who would be there, to cause mischief. Sadly, those days have come and gone, probably forever. And yet we have no-one but ourselves to blame for this. The electorate has become so concerned about image, that the policies and identity of Parties have got lost in the message.

Therefore, you now have the three parties trying to out-right-wing each other, with more and more draconian policies, which does nothing but make this country a nastier and bad place to live - which doesn't help anyone.

Particularly now, when the Labour Parliamentary Party seems to be taking itself down the garden path to oblivion, it is the right time for everyone in the Labour Movement to come together for a greater good. The movement needs to reclaim the Labour Party, and not allow it to self-implode.

That mean standing together in solidarity behind a leader that will get us that fourth term.

And that man is not Gordon Brown.

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