Jonathan Todd

Manuel Valls has launched his campaign to be the presidential candidate for the French Socialist Party in 2012 with words that attractively evoke the revisionist spirits of Eduard Bernstein and Tony Crosland:

“The job of the left is not to deny the inevitable; instead, it should seek to transform every change into an opportunity to promote its values”.

French socialists have spent too long denying the inevitable. Valls is right: France’s Socialist Party must change or die. So, I wish Valls well in his candidacy.