We need an opposition, but it doesn't have to be the present Labour which is a horrible mess of a party, spawned in an age which has passed, for a struggle which did no-one any good and did the country a great deal of harm.

In my ideal world, the opposition to the Tories would be something like UKIP, as a patriotic, libertarian-conservative party. But it's not my ideal world.

There might not be a very obvious successor yet. It could be some sort of social-democratic pact with the rump of the Lib Dems, but it must involve dropping it's ideological love of the mighty state, it's belief in the moral rightness of high taxes as an end unto itself and it's enduring belief in class war long after class has ceased to be a meaningful dividing line in British society. These things proved a lot harder to remove from Labour's DNA than Clause IV was from its constitution.

Bring forth the cleansing destruction, and let something much better rise from the rubble.

That and the fact that they couldn't enforce purdah if they wanted to. The European Commission will be campaigning for an In vote and our government will be powerless to stop them
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