Some people never learn ...
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If you were to ask me to identify the article by a British politician which represented the worst attack of political hubris in British history, I would have to point to " We cannot be killed " published in the News Statesman, dated 25th September 2007, by the then Labour MP Siôn Simon. You would think it would be difficult for even a Labour politician to make a bigger idiot of himself than Sion Simon had managed the previous year with a spoof David Cameron video but this article managed it with the highest ratio of wrong predictions to sentences ever seen in an article. " Shortly there will be an election ," he wrote, (there wasn't as Brown bottled it.) " at which Labour will increase it's majority. " (when the next election came Labour lost it's majority and made net losses of 91 seats.) Simon also predicted that the forthcoming Labour victory " ought to herald another decade of strong, confident, consensual Labour governmen