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Re: Of topic and a the risk of being flamed, (4.00 / 3)

Small wonder the PS got its clock cleaned. The left is losing the ideas war, and it is because the left has forgotten how to talk to its core constituencies: the poor and the working class. Royal was a good candidate, but once she was no longer the face of the party for legislatives, the old faces, Fabius, Strauss Kahn, came back to remind many of the PS no one liked anymore.

I would say the European Socialist and Labour parties are no longer "left", but they are morphing into social-liberal parties. There is a huge ideological space to the left of them, and a huge unrepresented working class.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 14th, 2007 at 12:07:35 PM EST
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Re: Of topic and a the risk of being flamed, (none / 1)

Exactly right.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Jun 14th, 2007 at 12:41:35 PM EST
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Re: Of topic and a the risk of being flamed, (none / 0)

They are social-liberal when they don't morph into outright authoritarian parties like New Labour.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 15th, 2007 at 04:40:26 AM EST
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