In fact, despite the way it may seem from my comments some days I am not really hard left. I had high hopes of the "Third Way" concept. A government at ease with the market (I do think renouncing Clause 4 was a good thing) but not enslaved by the market.

Of course, regarding Tony personally, I really did hope he was a "pretty straight guy." Sadly, that turned out to not quite be the case. As for his other flaws, well, that is the curse of personality politics I suppose.