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If you're old enough to remember the Thatcher years, you may have an answer to this question, but it's still worth asking: in living memory, have thousands of us on the left ever felt so bleak? Every day, I seem to have at least one conversation that ends with sighing expressions of fatalism about where Britain is headed, and how disorganised any opposition seems to be. Cameron is supposedly triumphant, and it certainly feels like it: even if the Tories failed to win the last election and now see some of their most treasured plans tumbling into disrepute, it's the right that is setting the terms of the argument.
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