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Simmering anger at years of New Labour policies that promote war, privatisation and inequality boiled over last week as Gordon Brown presided over his party’s worst local election results in decades.

New Labour was thrown into disarray last week after polling its worst election results in 40 years in local council elections in England and Wales and losing the high profile election for London mayor to Tory candidate Boris Johnson.

In an echo of the general trend, Labour lost over a quarter of the seats it was defending in the elections in Wales.

The appalling election results last week have sparked a refreshing, if slightly panicked, debate inside the Labour Party.

Every previous Labour government has provoked a major rebellion from the left after it betrayed the hopes that had led to its election.

The alternative of "reclaiming" Labour has proved a dead end.

‘Labour has become the stupid party – dumb, directionless, depressing.’Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee gives her take on the election aftermath

Local council elections across much of England and Wales yesterday saw Labour’s worst electoral results for 40 years. The party polled just 24 percent of the vote and came in third, losing around 300 councillors.

Class politics returned to Britain this week as 450,000 workers prepared to take strike action against Gordon Brown’s 2 percent pay limit.

The growing Labour rebellion is adding to the government’s crisis.

The government has illegally attempted to cover up corruption – not over donations to the Labour Party, but over a huge arms deal to a vicious dictatorship.