ABSTRACT
When Labour was a socialist party, it had a predefined moral agenda centred on rejection of most aspects of the system of production based on private enterprise. As a non-socialist party Labour has no intrinsic moral position. It becomes a sort of political magpie picking up bits and pieces of behavioural judgement or else a ship driven by the winds of attitudinal and electoral change: if New Labour appears, for example, in favour of homosexuality the reason could be as simple as the presence in the ranks of MPs elected in May 1997 of several ‘out’ gays.
