Beyond Selidor

Exactly so. This is why I get really frustrated with supposed allies on the left of politics who whinge about 'Blairites' or 'centrist' Labour leadership and claim that there's no difference between it, and Conservative government. Do any of those people seriously think we'd be having this conversation about children going hungry if there was a Labour government, even a 'centrist' one, in power right now? That's not to say that people should accept everything a more centrist Labour government does without complaint: but get them in power, and then start fighting to change them. Waiting for perfection is just a recipe for disaster.