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Most of us could not care less about the cringe-inducing embarrassment that was the Labour Party conference. However, it again highlighted something we should care quite profoundly about: and that is the hideous amount of damage these morons, sleazeballs and incompetents are capable of doing to our country before (as we must hope is the case) we boot them out of office in seven months' time.

As I wrote earlier this week, their exit is not yet certain: Mr Brown is now shamelessly greasing up to the Liberal Democrats in case they can throw him a lifeline to stay in power. But the events of the past week, even if they have failed to convince Labour that it should ditch Mr Brown, should have convinced many more members of the electorate that,...