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First of all, it would actually help the government if they admitted that they were wrong on Iraq. If that means Blair going then so be it. "new" labour is no longer new, it is tired drifting, arrogant and of touch. The government desperatly needs a new start otherwise there is a far greater danger of the tories gaining power by default after the core labour vote refuses to turn out. And I'm not taling about a change of presentation here either. Policies such as foundation hospitals and PFI are wrong whatever spin is put on them.

The reault is that Blair, though bad policy and blatant dishonesty has dropped in the polls, when you consider the appaling behaviour of Blair recently then it is hard to see how an opposition party can fail to fail against Blair. I mean goodness, this is a man who lies about the key issue of peace & war! You could put a dead parrot up as tory leader and the dead parrot would be gaining in the polls, so bad is this government! All the tories have to do is stay off most people's radar oddly enough! :eyes:

Tony Blair is not made of gold and with his landslide majority and the tories lead by dimwit-smith Labour should be in a way stronger position then they are now. If they are to maximise their appeal then they need to work out what the labour party is there to do, does the labour party exist to grab power at any cost or does it exist build a better, fairer Britain? If the answer is the latter one then a lot of work will have to be done to prove that, work which Blair is not prepared to do.

Hence a Brown premiership would be the best chance of the new start that labour needs. There are those who might make for better leaders but only Brown has any chance as the frontrunner.

Where's Ken Livingstone when you need him?