Labour hasn't quite finished shooting itself in the foot

[danohu]

BBC:

The Scottish National Party has called on the Liberal Democrats to join a "progressive alliance" involving Labour, the SNP and Plaid Cymru.
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Labour dismissed the SNP's progressive alliance suggestion as a desperate attempt by Mr Salmond to make himself look relevant.

WTF Labour?! That's 6 votes we desperately need to keep the Tories out. What are you doing not just turning them down, but dissing the SNP while you're at it? Seriously, can anybody explain this? It seems an utterly bizarre reaction in the circumstances.

Good work to all those at the electoral reform demo, btw. Sorry not to be there; have too many long-overdue things to get done.

Comments

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

oh, now that's just silly;) Labour may be far to the right of my own beliefs, but they're still on the left of the Conservatives.

[gerald_duck]

I look at the war in Iraq, detention without trial for suspected terrorists, control orders, ID cards, DNA retention, curtailment of the right to trial by jury, the Digital Economy Bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, etc. and I doubt that, you know…