Blair isolated by quasi-pinkos

[Johannes Schneider]

Doug wrote (quoting the Daily Telegraph):
>DAILY TELEGRAPH (London)
>ISSUE 1246 Friday 23 October 1998
>
>
>Franco-German lurch to the Left isolates Blair
>By Toby Helm in Brussels and Andrew Gimson in Berlin
>
>TONY Blair's chances of forming a "triple alliance" with France and Germany
>were receding last night as Paris, Bonn and Brussels hatched plans to
>revive Socialist economic policies reminiscent of the heyday of Jacques
>Delors.
>
>Yesterday, the French Socialist finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
>met his new German counterpart, the Left-winger Oskar Lafontaine
Is it true that the Daily Telegraph labels everyone left of Baroness
Thatcher and her tea-guests a "Left-winger"?