June 11, 2004

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Election blow for Labour Still the horrors pour in. A good example of the rare case when Field Marshal Haig was wrong about “the situation never being as good or bad as first reports indicate”. The whipping is now up to 330 seats lost. Ouch! Pleasantly, though, it…

On my way to Big London yesterday, sitting in a slow train (and on South West Trains that’s really slow). About Hounslow way a school trip of girls was loaded into the carriage. Or should that be poured? I feared the worst and prepared to go into mindless tube mode, eyes blank, brain emptier, but…

This is the text of my resignation from the Labour Party, more than a year ago today. Alexander Harrowell (address here) 08/05/03 Party No. B045893 Dear General Secretary, One week ago I decided to destroy my Labour Party membership card and cancel my subscription. This letter is intended to be a formal statement of resignation,…

Well, they’d been plotting it for a while, but now the mobilisation order has come through. Tony Blair is no longer a viable option. The Labour Party is now the third placed party in Britain. The people have spoken and they have comprehensively dished the myth that Blair is still an election winner. If we…