There's another version, somewhere, that has a longer bit on the end, specifically attacking several New Labour figures [can't rememeber all of them as I've never actualy heard it, jsut read it on another site] - Robin Cook was one, and Prescott might have been another.
To my mind, the song is more about NL's reversal of previous Labourite stances; the chorus, to me, may be ironic, a quibble, essentially, over a language issue. The despair of 'I can't see the past, anywhere' to me indicated that feeling that the party is now divorced from it's roots and unrecogniseable to it's former members.
There's another version, somewhere, that has a longer bit on the end, specifically attacking several New Labour figures [can't rememeber all of them as I've never actualy heard it, jsut read it on another site] - Robin Cook was one, and Prescott might have been another.
To my mind, the song is more about NL's reversal of previous Labourite stances; the chorus, to me, may be ironic, a quibble, essentially, over a language issue. The despair of 'I can't see the past, anywhere' to me indicated that feeling that the party is now divorced from it's roots and unrecogniseable to it's former members.