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(John Hinderaker) To the Losers Go the Recriminations Nobody loves you when you're down and out; not in politics, anyway. In the wake of Labour's disastrous electoral defeat last week, the party's leaders are being attacked from all directions. The Telegraph sums up the lessons of defeat, as drawn by the party's various factions. As in the U.S., the conflict is between those who think the party strayed too far from the center, and those who think its leftism isn't pure enough: [I]n a display of public recriminations, some of the party's most prominent MPs clashed openly over whether Labour's "old-school, socialist" anti-business agenda had put voters off – or whether the party had not been Left-wing enough to win. The majority view seems to be that Ed Miliband pulled Labour too far to the left: On Sunday Tony Blair, John Prescott and Lord Mandelson entered the debate with withering assessments of the current state of the party. ...

Happy Mainstream Monday!  TED CRUZ SPEECH AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA FREEDOM SUMMIT Much discussion on Tax Reform, Adopt a simple FLAT TAX!!! And Abolish the IRS!! Put the 90,000 IRS Employees on our Southern BORDER. Transcript English (Automatic Captions) 0:02 yes 0:03 the great state of South Carolina the so is this the ready for Hillary rally 0:14 like I think the men and women here are more than ready for Hillary 0:18 what a blessing 0:21 the to be with so many incredible Patriots on this day 0:28 Yelp couple years ago 0:33 Heidi and I had our girls Carolina Catherine up in washington won fall 0:40 weekend the Sunday afternoon we decided to drive the girls down the Mount Vernon 0:45 to George Washington's home 0:46 we're driving down the George Washington Parkway 0:50 those Chris fall days 0:53 you can smell the autumn in the air are two girls are very very different 0:59 Catherine the baby whose four she is sweet sweet sweet 1:04 she'll c...