Hearthly wrote:
Meh, every dagger the SNP can stick into the side of the Tories over the next five years is good by me.
Maybe Labour will fucking grow a pair as a result too, I'd be surprised if the Tories manage another majority in five years time - the opposition just need to get their act together.
Hmm, well, "dagger to the side" is a tad strong, but I'd certainly agree they've inflicted an embarrassment and major inconvenience to the Tories (but hey, who in their right mind would want to reintroduce the barbaric fox hunting anyway, like this is some kind of priority? Worrying, naive, arrogant, entirely regressive and stupid). Equally, though, they've massively reduced their own (already non-existent) credibility themselves also, no-one will believe anything they say from now on, albeit granted, not that they did before either, mind.
As for Labour "growing a pair", well, a corpse can't grow anything. Even you must concede that they're in a worse state now than even the bad old days of the early 1980s; they're leaderless, rudderless, haven't even the first clue about what they're actually for and whom they're supposed to be serving, without even the most basic ideology/soul, and split right down the middle to boot, as Harman's latest approval of Osborne's benefit cuts proves beyond doubt. As for the leadership contenders - can even you, honestly, see this country electing
Andy Burnham as its next Prime Minister? As for that Corbyn bloke, well, I wouldn't even know where to start; people compare him to Michael Foot but even that's an insult, as the latter might well have been equally as electable (i.e. not at all), but was at least a great orator and political thinker.
No, the chickens have come home to roost for Labour. More than that, though, I truly believe that the Right have well and truly won the political argument in this country (well, England at least). Shit, even Stu seems to think so, according to his blog.
Labour are out of power for 10-15 years minimum, and quite frankly, probably forever IMO. Things might've been a bit more positive for them if old Chukka hadn't bottled it, but he did, so consequently they're not.