Meltdown for Labour as UK Right Surges

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5-3-2008 1:02 AM

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abailart says:

If there is any good news for the Left in the UK it is that there has never been a better time to speak out for a new party that displays decency, an ethical foreign policy and a genuine commitment to those disenfranchised by the savage redistribution of wealth to the rich.