Labour today faces a simple choice — either a direct, and admittedly initially electorally damaging, battle with the Right, AND their supposed «Soft Left» fellow travellers, to transform the Party into a thoroughgoing Left Party for radical change, Or the «Pasok experience» of catastrophic relegation to political irrelevance still looms. (leftfutures.org)
As leader of the Liberal Democrats his party has been the least embroiled with the Murdochs in recent decades, because of its relative political irrelevance. (politics.co.uk)
It will take a great deal of courage and not a little imagination to risk failure, powerlessness, and cultural and political irrelevance — to be, in Pope Francis's words, a less «worldly» Church — for the sake of the truth. (firstthings.com)