Re-elected(after Privileged Instructions by Hans Magnus Enzensberger)It is, if not forbidden,then strongly discouragedto accost strangerson street corners, in pubs,at the doctors, and declaimto their faces or their retreating backsDont blame me, I votedLabour. And it is more thanstrongly discouraged to engage colleaguesin useful debate; to questionthat wasted protest vote; to bangthe drum for unionismand anti-austerity and basichuman decency. And it isfrowned upon and let our leadersleave us in no doubt: this isfrowned upon as in Guantanamo Bay to speak a word in protest,to speak of proportional representation,to speak of an opposition party without a leader,to speak of the ravagesand the dismantlingsof the first hundred daysand the next hundredand all the hundreds of daysthat stack up on the rackingthat strains under the false promisesand u-turns and shiftless PRof another term in office. Neil Fulwood is the author of film studies book The Films of Sam Peckinpah.