What has it come to when a lifelong Labour voter tells a canvasser in a tough council estate in the West Midlands:
I’m never voting Labour again after what they’ve done. I’m not so keen on your party, but I hate Gordon Brown and what he’s done to Labour with the 10p tax rate and the housing market. I’m voting Tory this time - I want Labour out.
Gordon Brown has prevailed over not only the economic storm that has been gathering ever since he first got into the Treasury in 1997 but ironically did not appear on the horizon (apart from to a few wise sages) until this summer. But also the dismantling and destruction of his own party. How could he turn a landslide and a party reborn in 1997 to the shambles that we see now?
Because he won’t listen to anyone but his own coterie. He makes policies that are good for his party in the short-term but disastrous for both the country and his party in the long-term. No wonder it was almost, for a brief moment, conceivable that Harriet defected!
The tide is turning and next Thursday (or rather Friday morning) Labour are in for a severe and justified kicking.
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