THE PERFECT LIBERAL CLIMATE:

Mass poll shows Labour wipeout across country (Gaby Hinsliff and Toby Helm, 9/21/08, The Observer)

Gordon Brown is set to lead Labour into an election bloodbath so crushing it could take his party a decade to recover, according to the largest ever poll of marginal seats which predicts a landslide victory for David Cameron.

Eight cabinet ministers, including the Home Secretary and the Justice Secretary, would be swept away in the rout as the Tories marched into Downing Street with a majority of 146, says the poll, conducted for PoliticsHome.com and exclusively revealed to The Observer. Seats that have been Labour since the First World War would fall.

The sheer scale of the humiliation is almost as bad as that endured by the Tories in 1997, suggesting it could take Labour a similar time to claw its way back to power. The party would be virtually extinguished in southern England and left with only its hardcore redoubts in northern England, the Welsh valleys and deprived inner-city areas.

Given the identicality of politics across the Anglosphere you'd think they'd realize that reversion to the 2nd Way doesn't work.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 20, 2008 7:19 PM