Telegraph: Excellent article in the Conservative Telegraph on the relationship between Lord Peter Mandelson and New Labour, in essence Blair/Brown and Mandelson bought the Labour Party back from the POLITICAL DEAD. After the 2010 General Election defeat the Labour Party and the leadership contenders have decide on a policy of placing New Labour in the grave and are reverting to old Labour. This would be a political disaster for Labour, Tony Blair moved the Party to the centre and even the centre right when it came to business and foreign policy, but the fault in New Labour was that the move to the right on business didn’t allow for tight regulation, thus the banking meltdown of 2008, the foreign policy move lead to Iraq and Afghanistan, the UK only got out of Iraq in 2009 with the loss of 179 of its Armed Forces Personnel, the UK is still in Afghanistan, the death toll now stands at 322. The Labour Party NOW has to look at itself and find a centre ground that connects it back to its voters but getting back Southern England voters, this will not be a one day job, thus the Labour Candidates should not cast out Mandelson they might need him to get back in to power.
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