"Aha, if I'm not mistaken, James, your sympathy is for the prophet of an English Jerusalem that never will be"
Well, I can only speak for myself. And having seen an entire generation of the British left exhaust itself in the fruitless task of trying to make the welfare state into socialism through the instrument of parliament, along with all the nationalistic chauvinism that entailed, I am not willing to go down that road again. Like I say, Galloway did the right thing in Washington, and his passion makes him stand out against the grey alternative, but his 'old Labour' politics are what went wrong with the left here, not a solution.
I think it is a bit like Chris Doss's confusion. He does not understand the difference between nostalgia for the past, and the past. The world is full of people who think things were much better in the 1950s, but that does not mean that it was. It just means that their lives are a dead-end today. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20050523/03cd8ada/attachment.htm>