re: #583 Jimmah

Good point, but I prefer to draw the parallel with what happened to labour after their defeat by Thatcher in 1979. They really went crazy with the ‘ideological purity’, electing the unelectable Michael Foot as their leader and spending the next 18 years out of power and being overrun by hardened socialist backstabbers like ‘Militant Tendency’.

Whereabouts in the UK are you btw? (I’m in Scotland)

Probably a better analogy, come to think of it. The GOP platform in 2012 could very well be the “longest suicide note in history”.

I’m North Yorkshire.