Milburn Still Retains the Trotskyite Mindset

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IT did not take Alan Milburn long to demonstrate Tony Blair's maladroitness in appointing him to the position of Labour's supremo for the next general election campaign. In describing, so infelicitously, Gordon Brown's masterly speech to the Labour Party conference as "simply screaming louder and louder" about past achievements, he is revealing the unattractive, unacceptable face of Old Labour.

Milburn is a former Trotskyite. He may have rejected the Trotskyite politico-economic analysis of his youth but he still retains its mindset of factionalism and adherence to perpetual revolution. The language of his Trotskyite tantrum made this clear. This is the man who could take Labour back to its nightmare years of 1979-92.

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Milburn Still Retains the Trotskyite Mindset

Gordon Brown, on the other hand, did what was required of h...

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