Has it really come to this?

The grotesque chaos of a Labour Home Secretary - a Labour Home Secretary - condemning the Tories for not being resolute enough to ditch civil liberties. John Reid - a man of very limited intellect, who somehow has acquired a reputation as a "political heavyweight" - mainly, it seems, through shouting at opponents to shut them up, rather than answering any criticism - is out-Torying the Tories. Given the complete lack of any difference in economic policies, who, exactly, are the Labour Party trying to appeal to? Evil old Thatcherites, decaying in their misanthropy and bitterness? It seems so.
What, one wonders, is the point? Really? Watching people disgrace the party of Keir Hardy and Nye Bevan by shoving their snouts in the public trough and gobbling until they're stuffed. Then crapping on the working class, and arresting them if they complain.
A disgrace. There are no other words.