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public self-flagellation has been continued on the same site by Compass (http://www.compassonline.org.uk ) guru, managing editor of Renewal (http://www.renewal.org.uk/ ) & one-time adviser to Gordon Brown (oh, what a cross to bear!), Neal Lawson (http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/neal_lawson/2008/08/05/all_together_now_1.html ). Lawson maintains that the growth in individuality from the 60s onwards meant that both Soviet Stalinism & social democratic reformism were doomed to lose the intellectual battle with capitalism of the free market variety. So far, so Blairite.

How dare the millionaire left-wing Labour Party fantasist Neal Lawson claim the moral high ground and demand in The Independent that Gordon should step down and return to The Treasury? How dare he claim in The Guardian that the local elections saw the final collapse of the New Labour project? How dare he fill the columns of The Spectator blog this morning under the banner Brown loses his Compass? Ed Balls is right - it's all the fault of Darling and Field and they'll have to go, along with Lawson. Once we've thrown them out of the Party,

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e simbólicos, os correios, o processo de comercialização e de abertura aos privados não gerou quaisquer benefícios para os consumidores ou para as empresas e coloca em risco o serviço público. Conclusões de um relatório independente. Como diz Neal Lawson do Compass: «a comercialização dos serviços postais representa um triunfo do dogma do mercado livre sobre o senso comum». Recuperando as melhores tradições do socialismo britânico, que sempre se preocuparam com o tema das relações entre as

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READINGS Watch the web for climate change truths PDO, sunspots, you name it. The third way is finished after Labour blown out in Britland, lefties are ready to get back to basic left-wingery. Hollywood Still the Land of Fruits and Nuts liberals say the nastiest things... especially about conservatives.

in the almost mythical hung parliament that might finally force PR onto Westminster, the one thing that will help to re-engage and give a choice beyond the current staleness of two parties that have hardly a cigarette paper between them. Similarly, Neal Lawson is convinced that this is the death of third way, for the same reasons I think it's the death of the fatal super-marginals thinking. He's wrong because he hasn't yet realised that the Conservatives under Cameron are the new third way, the inheritance of the same

7.17pm: The Yorkshire Conservatives' blog records their council gains. 7.11pm: Labour losses now 434, Tories +300, LibDems +33. 7.10pm The third way is finished writes Neal Lawson. There's nothing in his piece to suggest that he has a better way forward. The striking thing is that no Labour/ left-wing commentator has presented a compelling way forward for Labour. 7.03pm: Eastleigh is now a Tory-free zone.

even more dramatically than it has across the rest of the country. Repeated at a general election this pattern would claim the scalps of several senior ministers and reduce Labour to a parliamentary rump" - Guardian The third way is finished - Neal Lawson, Guardian

4) Boris will be fantastic fodder for left-wing bloggers. 19:52pm thelondonpaper is saying this may drag on till midnight! People I have a poker game to play :( Links: Neal Lawson of Compass says on CIF that the Third Way is finished