Gordon Brown to be new labour leader.

[ReD_ReBeL]

As it is well known that Gordon Brown will become the Labour partys new leader after Tony Blair steps down, what will become of the labour party? Continueing its ring wing policies, or will Brown sway the party back to center-left?

[loveme4whoiam]

I found it hilarious that in the ITV coverage of this tonight, the journo (bit of a dick, not that that's relevant) said that Brown was seen to be too left-wing, so he;s been spending time with veterans and with the Queen and co.

But wait, isn't the Labour Party supposed to BE slightly left-wing? Why I do believe it is! Idiot politicians :lol:

[drain.you]

I am hating Gordon Brown more and more as the days go by. I mean the Tories are talking more left than Labour nowadays lol. Okay that might be an exaggeration but Cameron seems alot more appealing than Brown to me and I would class myself as a pure leftie. I not sure what to think of the Lib Dems, they seemed to be on their last legs and then they won them by-elections. Odd. Anyhow, we dont have to vote for years now and with any luck something will happen so that Brown is not the new labour leader but thats all but a dream, I fear.

[ReD_ReBeL]

Yes Labour usto be center-left, but Blair has moved the party in a rightward step hence New Labour. What makes it funny is that the labour party is a member of Socialist International and also Party of European Socialists. i just hope the next leader of Labour swings them back to center-left.

[BattleOfTheCowshed]

Why does this even matter? I can see why some leftists might hold out hope that some third-party or something might change things, but Labour? They will never bring about any real change, not even any significant reformist change in my opinion. Gordon Brown, Tony Blair...same shit. The best we can hope for is that Brown wont be Bush's *****, as much, and thus hopefully put a bit of a check on the US's actions internationally. Chances are that wont happen though.

[Conghaileach]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 11:23 PM
Yes Labour usto be center-left, but Blair has moved the party in a rightward step hence New Labour. What makes it funny is that the labour party is a member of Socialist International and also Party of European Socialists. i just hope the next leader of Labour swings them back to center-left.
I'm not sure about the Socialist International, but the Party of European Socialists is full of formerly social democratic parties gone to the right.

[chebol]

http://www.socialistinternational.org/main.html

A selection of member parties of the Socialist International......
from http://www.socialistinternational.org/2Members/who.html#full

Argentina Socialist Party, PS
Argentina Radical Civic Union, UCR
Australia Australian Labor Party, ALP
Bolivia Revolutionary Left Movement, MIR-New Majority
Canada New Democratic Party, NDP/NPD
Chile Socialist Party of Chile, PS
Colombia Liberal Party of Colombia, PLC
Denmark Social Democratic Party
Ecuador Democratic Left Party, PID
France Socialist Party, PS
Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Great Britain The Labour Party
Ireland The Labour Party
Israel Israel Labour Party
Mexico Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD
Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI
New Zealand New Zealand Labour Party, NZLP
Nicaragua Sandinista National Liberation Front, FSLN
Portugal Socialist Party, PS
Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Independence Party, PIP
Spain Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE
USA Democratic Socialists of America, DSA
USA Social Democrats USA, SDUSA
Venezuela Democratic Action, AD

[BattleOfTheCowshed]

All of the parties I recognize on that list are reformist :-/.

[Iroquois Xavier]

the tories are right wing to the core, Cameron is their new "weapon" to win the government back. He promises so much but if he gets power he will fail like Blair when he started as a fresh faced politician back in 97 and has now become a useless closet tory. Labour have swung to the right wing because of Blair and the Lib Dems will never get power because no one thinks they can, and because they are not very Liberal. :rolleyes: