There's nothing even slightly "leftish" about the UK right now.  Unless David Cameron is now considered to be of the left.

What's really pathetic is that I'm seeing a lot of the criticism coming from the right of the Labour Party.  And not just the right of the party, but a batshit-crazy, farther-right-than-America element.  Take the 50p tax rise.  You've got the Blairites coming out to denounce it as ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst.  How does Labour come back in a more worthy form if the loudest voices on the "left" are preaching supply-side economics?

So Blair's gone.  Brown is Dead Man Walking, and the answer is now to amp up the crazy?

Shit, even Cameron doesn't, so far as I'm aware, promote that garbage.  In fact, he defeated a supply-sider to become Tory leader.  And Clegg looks like a worthy leader of the opposition, post-2010, simply by not falling on his face when he walks into a room.

I'd argue that Labour is probably even more fucked up than the GOP here in the states, politically.  A major problem I find is that Labour has no ear to the country that exists outside Westminster.  For all the talk of fundraising and organizing and the like about the blogosphere here, the netroots are also politically savvy and can lend a knowing word to the politicians.  Labour has no such infrastructure in place, and as the battle plays out on television and in the papers, any potential "leftish" message is smothered by an even stupider British equivalent of the DLC.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin