[wagglebee]

The bigger question would be whether or not the Tories have any "neo-Thatcherites."

[risk]

What's wrong with neo-Thatcherism?

[Betaille]

It's all about whether or not the economy is doing well. All this left-right balancing act doesnt mean anything. Does anybody know how the UK economy is doing?(GDP/Unemployment numbers?)

[Terpfen]

"Don't put your faith in polls or predictions."

Boy, if only Blair could've told FR this during the campaign season.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I'm no neo-Thatcherite, Blair tells Labour activists"

Well, he got that right:

http://www.socialistinternational.org/1What/presidium-e.html

Presidium of the Socialist International

 

PRESIDENT

António Guterres
Socialist Party, PS, Portugal. Former Prime Minister of Portugal

 

SECRETARY GENERAL

Luis Ayala

 

VICE-PRESIDENTS

Rolando Araya Monge
National Liberation Party, PLN, Costa Rica

Deniz Baykal
Leader of the Republican People's Party, CHP, Turkey

Tony Blair
Leader of the Labour Party. Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD, Mexico

Joaquim Chissano
Leader of Frelimo. President of Mozambique

Massimo D’Alema
Chair of Democrats of the Left, DS, Italy

Hatuey de Camps
President of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD, Dominican Republic

Elio Di Rupo
Chair of the Socialist Party, PS, Belgium

Alfred Gusenbauer
Leader of Social Democratic Party of Austria, SP…

François Hollande
First Secretary of the Socialist Party, PS, France

Thorbjørn Jagland
Norwegian Labour Party, DNA, Norway

Lászlo Kovács
Leader of the Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP

Paavo Lipponen
Leader of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, SDP

Mogens Lykketoft
Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Denmark

Plácido Micó
General Secretary of Convergence for Social Democracy, CPDS, Equatorial Guinea

Pascal Affi N’Guessan
Ivorian Popular Front, FPI, Côte d'Ivoire

Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, PvdA, Netherlands

Ricardo Núnez
Socialist Party of Chile, PS

Jaime Paz Zamora
Leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement, MIR-New Majority, Bolivia

Shimon Peres
Leader of the Israeli Labour Party

Göran Persson
Chair of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP. Prime Minister of Sweden

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE. Prime Minister of Spain

Gerhard Schröder
Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD. Chancellor of Germany

Costas Simitis
Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK, Greece

Abderrahman Youssoufi
First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, Morocco