Do you know something, ladies and gents? The last few months have made me ashamed, without putting too fine a point on things, to be a Labour member. Ignorance, Indifference and sheer bloody-minded incompetence have typified the last year or so and Charles Clarke is right, if we don't change radically, the next election will frankly be a trainwreck.

There are 723 days remaining until the last possible day on which the next general election could be held. That's just less than two years. There's a stolid feeling in the air, oddly reminiscent of 1995, the stench of defeat looms, resignation and depression reign supreme. However, unlike 1995, the election has not been lost yet, a fourth term is not beyond our reach, as long as we act now. The clock is ticking, and as the seconds go by, the time to save the party from Opposition and the nation from years of Tory incompetence is fading away.It is to that end that the Party requires a programme of reinvgoration, a reassertion of its principles,  and I'm sorry to say it, but a change in leadership.

Now, our party has two years to strategically turn things round to win a fourth term in some form, or to at least get underway some progressive, social-democratic reforms for the longer term future. As Labour activists and members, or perhaps former supporters, what would be top three on your list of positive policy directions that you would like the party leadership to adopt?

A Labourhome member writes

New Labour is dead in the water; its electoral credibility has been shattered and it's time we took a long hard look in the mirror, remember what we believe in, what we joined this great party for and look to the future. Gordon is the past, and he needs to go sooner rather than later if we are to remain a force in British politics. Here's my vision for the future, not for now, not necessarily for 2010 but for the long term health of the party.

According to the Guardian, policy documents are winging their way to CLPs and union branches immediately after the elections, and we will be given full opportunities to submit as many amendments as we wish.  I'm not 100% sure what happens then (NPF members care to enlighten us?) but it sounds like a positive step.

Should the presentation of the party change? Could a new public image for Labour reverse in some small way the declining popularity of the party amongst the electorate?

I have long pondered as to what the future of the left is in the labour party. When i have asked other people as to who in Labour is left-wing anymore, they point to Campaign Group members like Dennis Skinner. Although he is a great parlimentarian, I hate all his talk of a class war, he is a Trotskyite in disguise. The heart and soul of democratic socialism died on two seperate days, May 12th 1994 and August 6th 2005, the days of John Smith and Robin Cooks deaths. After many election losses Labour needed to modernise, but Tony Blair treated Smith's death like an election loss, moving one step too far to the right. the ignorance of the moderate left wingers astounds me. I heard on a seperate thread someone saying Roy Hattersley was part of the Ultra-Left like Benn and Foot; well it was people like Hattersley who saved the party, infact he had the future of Labour in his hands. Had Hattersley defected to the SDP, other soft-left members like Smith and Dewar would have defected, Benn would have become Deputy Leader,m more would have defected and the Alliance would have become the dominant party of the left. But there is no room for people like Hattersley anymore, for Labour is senn as divided into New Labour, a coalition of Blairites and Brownites and the hard-left of people in the Campaign group. Thus Hattersley is put into the latter category for there is no room for the moderate-left winger. And so I ask can we regain this party, to make it one of moderate or democratic socialism?