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Good interview with Chuka in the Times (sorry about paywall but they d have  some balanced articles!) Of particular relevance, apart from the point he makes that a new political party will be formed by the end of the year and that the SDP of the 1980s was Labour 2:'Westminster, he argues, is stuck in a previous age. “We’ve still got a politics that’s operating like it’s in the 20th century, with two old parties which have coalitions within them that are fighting each other and have fragmented.” More than two thirds of the electorate say they don’t feel represented by the existing system. “You’ve got a huge number of people voting for parties to keep the other lot out, or because it’s the least worst option. That’s just not sustainable.”'

Lucille Grant ● 2819d1 Comments

It seems to me that history repeats itself in an uncanny way.  There was a Tory party in the 1700s that was later replaced by the Whigs (Liberals) and the resurgence of the Tory Party in the early 20th century.The Labour party grew out of the trade unions movements in the late 19th century overtaking the Liberals as opposition party to the Conservatives in the 1920s.  It had a landslide victory in 1945 and it was during this government that the NHS was set up.  It continued in government (Wilson and Callaghan) until the winter of discontent, when the Tories returned with full force in 1979.During the Thatcher years, there was a break out of the Labour party with the creation of the SDP....Does the story sound familiar?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2819d