“The task is not to win the political centre ground – it is gridlocked and dead – but to transform it. A new social politics of democracy must be capable of creating the conditions for recovery, and setting out a set of principles and a political direction for the future, and it must also address the threat of global warming. The boom is over. In the future there will be less to go round and so let us share it out fairly amongst ourselves and embark on the deep and long transformation that will bring about a good society. It will be the great challenge of our time, and it will shape the lives of generations to come.”

— Jon Cruddas

The Independent, The time has come for a new socialism, 31 March 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/jon-cruddas-amp-jonathan-rutherford-the-time-has-come-for-a-new-socialism-1658938.html

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