Ignorance is an excuse these days; you can get away from even a very close association with dodgy deals if you claim not to have read the papers you signed (Jowell), or not to have seen the memo about bombing Al-Jazeera, etc.
I think the key sentence is:
"It's wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party," he said
So, Downing street is running the party and have lost respect for the party machinery that they are nominally a part of.
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Date: 2006-03-16 01:28 pm (UTC)I think the key sentence is:
So, Downing street is running the party and have lost respect for the party machinery that they are nominally a part of.