New Labour .....Lefties ???? I don't think so matey.
Old labour had more than a smattering of lefties yes. But 'New Labour' had largely cleansed themselves of the extreme left. I think thats how come they won 3 elections on the trot to be honest.
They had become unelectably left wing. Good old Neil Kinnock stuck it to em. I will always love him for that.
It's all well and good sticking rigidly to grand principles but they let so many people down by not looking like a force capable of running a country. And Madame Thatcher ran amok. Selling off everything we owned. Gas, Electric, trains and creating a whole new generation of wannabe tories. Buying the council house they lived in and getting themselves 100 BT shares and looking down their noses at their single mum sisters.
Old Labour let the working classes and the disadvantaged down.