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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   New Labour again get defeated in Ebbw Vale, or Blaenau Gwent as the   
   rejigged constituency is called.   
      
   Ebbw Vale was once the best-known parliamentary constituency in the UK,   
   and the safest seat of all, for any party.   
      
   The BBC are reporting this on the same level as the fact that the   
   Liberals came a close second in Bromley!! They're also introducing their   
   propaganda reports with the fact that American Labour, sorry, New   
   Labour, tried to impose a woman candidate in last year's general   
   election...as if her sex was of any relevance whatsoever.   
      
   Leaving aside one's hatred for parliamentary democracy, and all the dirt   
   one could mention about Aneurin Bevan or Michael Foot, or about the   
   bosses' party called 'Old Labour' generally, and leaving aside one's   
   happiness at the fall in turnout to around 50%...   
      
   ...it has nonetheless got to be noted that there is a tradition in the   
   Valleys among working class people that the MP is actually supposed to   
   'represent' them...and I can't help but say it's a good thing to watch   
   the New Labour war-party filth bite the dust a second time.   
      
   I was surprised to see that Ladbrokes bookmakers made the New Labour   
   candidate the favourite, even though it was obvious the Independent   
   candidate Dai Davies would win. Maybe some of the PR spend went on   
   influencing the betting market??   
      
   New Labour did actually try to win the seat back, which makes it even   
   better that they failed. The PR line that 'we apologise' and 'our   
   candidate's very independent, you know', didn't cut any ice with people   
   who are not the stupid idiots that the New Labour brand managers took   
   them for.   
      
   Compare Bromley, where there was little point in New Labour campaigning   
   much, because even if they said they wanted to whip single mothers in   
   the street, most people would still vote Tory or Liberal.   
      
   New Labour lost because their 'Third Way' marketing crap and their   
   disgusting, Tory, pro-American, far-right brand DOESN'T MEAN SHIT IN THE   
   VALLEYS.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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