Jeff Randall has a good article in the Telegraph on the work Labour has to do to become electable again.
A few quotes to give you a flavour of the article.
First on the failed Labour Gerrymandering:
Despite its record of fiscal incompetence, constitutional vandalism and disregard for Middle England, Gordon Brown‘s administration ought never to have collapsed. It had, after all, created for itself a client class of supplicant voters. As part of a grand plan for permanent office, more than one million immigrants were handed British passports (80 per cent of first-generation arrivals vote Labour) and 900,000 workers added to the public-sector payroll.
Second the arrival the duo Sqealer:
Together they became Mr Brown’s very own Squealer, the insidious porker in Animal Farm who manipulates language to justify his boss’s tyranny, while limiting debate and confusing the lower orders. In extremis, when awkward questions persist, Squealer fires off statistics to “prove” that life is improving, and warns darkly against the return of the farm’s previous owner.
Third more from Aninal Farm:
Never mind, shame has never been a burden to Mr Brown’s Squealers. On election night, as the exit polls indicated that the prime minister was no more popular or trusted than Michael Foot had been in 1983, his favourite emissaries rushed to the microphones to “interpret” the results. My jaw dropped as I heard Jack Dromey (aka Mr Harperson) claim: “The real losers tonight are the Conservatives.” This was life mimicking art: Orwell’s allegory had become the how-to-cope manual for New Labour’s response unit.
And lastly the bodily health:
How crushing for them to discover that power-hungry rivals see life differently. When the Liberals prefer to get in bed with Conservatives than sleep with New Labour, it’s time to admit that the deodorant is not working.
Having provided first-class travel for 13 years, New Labour’s gravy train has just pulled away, leaving the party’s leaders and apologists stuck on the platform without a ticket. For them, the free ride is over.
via It will take a long time for the new boys to unravel Gordon Brown’s mess – Telegraph.