Trounced in Crewe, two years off an election it looks almost certain to lose, and down to its lowest poll ratings since records began, you'd struggle to imagine how things could get any worse for Labour. Unless you're a Blairite, that is.
Sally Keeble, the MP for Northampton North, said that middle income, Middle England has moved on since 1997 and needs to know that we have moved too. "The tax system provides the most powerful means of convincing this new electorate we're on their side."
If the result in Crewe proved anything it was that traditional Labour voters can no longer be fobbed off with the owt's better than the Tories line, especially while Labour busies itself buying off middle income earners (what else was the point of the whole 10p fiasco if it wasn't to bung a few hundred quid a year to numpties who play golf, buy The Daily Mail and fake religion to get their kids into good schools?). If Labour's still deluded enough to fight the next election on the premise that its core support has nowhere else to go, it will not only lose in 2010, but likely as not in 2014 too. In fact, the only thing Keeble's right about is that Middle England has moved on: it's gone back home, to the Tories.
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