On a weird week in politics...

I was going to post a comment on Lenin's Tomb, that ever fascinating and engaging website, the acknowledged home of internet Bolshevism (thank you: that'll be my usual fee), but something seems to be up with the comment boxes. Here's what I was going to say on the Tories Retreat... what's the odds it's going to be impressionistic and downbeat?

What an odd situation. The big battalions of class struggle supposed to fight these contests seem confused, enervated and perhaps paralysed. This leaves room for little flying squads of electricians and trotskyists to score victories. The trouble is irregular detachments struggle to alter the big picture. The NHS Bill is still alive, the breakup of comprehensive education is still going ahead, the housing benefit cap is still being fitted. Workfare may not be compulsory any more for 16-24 year olds (great!), but it's still compulsory for the long term unemployed and the sick (who can be asked to give unlimited slave labour).

Ye gods, it's going to take a lot to bring down this zombie government.

Wow, it was what the world was waiting for, wasn't it?