A happy New Year to you all.

Looking forward to watching - even helping, in our own little way - Gordon Brown drag New Labour's sorry carcass to oblivion and beyond. New Labour has a lot to answer for [0] and we will be working hard - here and over at liberalconspiracy.org [1] - to get some answers.

They have inflicted poverty and real hardship on too many people, which means that something will happen. People get very tired of poverty and hardship. The Tories will also inflict poverty and hardship on too many people - we spent much of 2007 recording examples of that [1] - but that's what Tories are supposed to do. You expect that from Tories. You don't expect that from Labour. Well, you do now, but you shouldn't have to.

BRING IT ON, GORDON.