Should be back up to speed by next week. Decided to take a couple of weeks after the election to go through all the transcripts and recordings I have from jobcentres and work capability assessments, and get all that work in order for the next round of fighting.
Go well, all and remember – Labour was never going to give us social security back. As ever, we’ll have to go and get it back ourselves.
See you soon.
Labour intended to enact about 98% of Tory policy anyway. So the loss of ‘Ruthless Reeves’ and co. may not be a very great one.
If this campaign showed anything it is that you can’t turn a character actor into a leading man, as they say in the theatre. Not even if you write the ten commandments of Labour and set them in stone.
Perhaps this election will be remembered as the one where Labour failed to bring home the bacon, having already made a pigs-ear of the campaign.
And now, in the post-mortem on Labour’s election results, the whole narrative is dominated by a complete myth: that the party now needs to move more to the right. Not only did they not win, they can’t even get the analysis right. The SNP, for one, know there are more votes on the left. But instead, Labour intend to try to compete with the Tories even more. In the main broadsheets I’ve only seen one decent analysis of how Labour faired in the election and what they should now do:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/20/blairite-revival-leadership-contest-labour-breakup