ABSTRACT
Labour has never been an ideological party. Being a coalition it lacked an overarching system of thought. Seeking power in a nation which wouldn’t recognise an ideology if it drove over them in a tank, it eschewed ideological clobber. What it has had are instincts and conditionings called ‘Labourism’ and plans for the ‘good’ society called ideology. Today it isn’t left with much of either because the galloping inferiority complex developed in the last two decades of the century led it to stop thinking and concentrate on marketing.
