I was just reading Luke Akehurst, and I couldn't disagree more with his post about the Guardian list of Labour heroes.

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?