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Various Labour politicians seem to be trying to pretend that they are not "NuLabour" any more, and to curry favour or half heartedly rally opposition to Gordon Brown becoming the next (unelected) Prime Minister.
Here is today's website launch from Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn, with a website confusingly named like several chains of Opticians shops:
or
Both of these domain names seem to be registered to someone in Norwich, in Charles Clarke's constituency, but not at his constituency office.
Domain name: the2020vision.org.ukRegistrant:
the2020visionRegistrant type:
Not suppliedRegistrant's address:
68 Eaton Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR4 6PR
United Kingdom[...]
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 02-Feb-2007
Renewal date: 02-Feb-2009
Last updated: 26-Feb-2007[...]
If you sign up to their email list (only an email address is required, and it does seem to be handled by systems entirely within the United Kingdom), you get a reply from "future@the2020vision.org.uk"
They claim that they will soon have an online donations form, but are accepting cheques care of NuLabour press baron Lord Hollick, who has funded the NuLabour think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Clarke and Milburn are claiming that they are going to be "listening" to the general public rather than just the Labour Party, but given their previous records and policies, this seems unlikely.
See this BBC report for some of the speculation about what it might mean.
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