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Recent troubles in the Labour party were likened by more than one unsuccessful letter-writer to the Daily Telegraph to those of the army described by Petronius Arbiter nearly 2,000 years ago:
We trained hard; but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised.
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