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Correct me if I am wrong Graham, but wasn't '1984' a work of fiction? And I thought that Orwell said that he wrote it to point out the dangers of Communism and Totalitarianism. How odd that you should choose this work in support of your argument.

I am sure voters are more than capable of judging the activities of New Labour over the past thirteen years, but the point is that Labour have been in government and the opposition is ...well...the opposition, who are by definition not in government. So I fail to see how any sort of meaningful comparison can be made between the two, since one would not be comparing like with like.

My question did not ask how you expected voters to understand recent history but how you justified recent history and hoped to persuade voters to accept another five years of the same administration.