UK Voters Wake Up and tell "New Labour' to F@*K Off


	UK Voters Wake Up and tell "New Labour' to F@*K Off

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5-3-2008 1:41 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8f59c744-fc67-418e-adae-12873d34e71c/3B4C053D-6CAE-49F8-A2E6-116AB29CA149/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">www.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece">
It's over. There was nothing constructive in the voters' message. These
elections were not an invitation to change. They were a big two-fingered
salute, a raspberry, a pressing of the de-trousered national buttocks to the
window of the polling station.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece">the judgment that takes only two words to deliver, one
of which I shall avoid in print.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece">let us say “push off”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece"><P>Prepare yourself then for a great barrage of
phrasemaking that will involve the endless repetition, in no particular
order, of the following thoughts, typically conjoined with Gordon Brown's
name:
</P><P>
wake-up call
</P><P>
message from the electorate
</P><P>
take it on the chin
</P><P>
listen to voters
</P><P>
learn lessons
</P><P>
heed concerns
</P><P>
need for change
</P><P>
get back in touch
</P><P>
sharpen up the act</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3864138.ece"><P>
show contrition
</P><P>
find a new narrative
</P><P>
feel their pain
</P><P>
show humility
</P><P>
understand more
</P><P>
blitz of initiatives
</P><P>
sense of purpose
</P><P>
simpler messages
</P><P>
sharpen the argument
</P><P>
clearer sense of direction
</P><P>
relaunch/refocus/rediscover/
</P><P>
redefine/repair/refresh/reshuffle/rethink/renew
</P><P>
begin fightback
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