Tony Blair (the most hubristic and vacuous Prime Minister ever), Stephen Byers, Alan Milburn, Charles Clarke, blah, blah, blah. What, you mean that these people are still alive? Next you'll be saying that David Miliband is Foreign Secretary and might one day become Prime Minster. Pull the other one!
Time was when Labour expelled parties within the party, including two sitting MPs who were members of one in the Nineties, and half a dozen who were in the Forties. It should do the same in this case.
But it won't, because there really isn't anyone else left in it. Alas that the SDP was defined by the two issues on which it was wrong - its betrayal of Gaitskellism over Europe, and its betrayal of Christian Socialism over nuclear weapons. And alas that it was tied up with the decadent social libertinism of Roy Jenkins and the comprehensive school mania of Shirley Williams. This time round, we will be making no such mistakes.
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