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Gordon Brown's attempted fightback has failed to win over voters ahead of this week's crucial Crewe and Nantwich by-election, according to a new poll. Labour is 17 points adrift of the Conservatives, the ComRes survey for The Independent on Sunday shows...... Last night an ICM poll in the constituency for the News of the World gave the Tories an eight-point lead, putting them on 45 per cent to Labour's 37 per cent. A national YouGov survey for The Sunday Times puts the Conservatives 20 points ahead on 45 per cent to 25 per cent.
Labour is 17 points adrift of the Conservatives, the ComRes survey for The Independent on Sunday shows......
Last night an ICM poll in the constituency for the News of the World gave the Tories an eight-point lead, putting them on 45 per cent to Labour's 37 per cent.
A national YouGov survey for The Sunday Times puts the Conservatives 20 points ahead on 45 per cent to 25 per cent.
that's a staggering result, Crewe is a real dyed in the wool "pink pussycat" seat, ie Labour would win even if they put up a pink cat; to lose this would be an incredible loss.
A couple of weeks ago the tories were just hoping to do really well, today on the andrew Marr show he was looking pretty smug about the Tories probably winning the seat. This would be huge, panic would set in across the Labour benches, remember these people are useless and have are unemployable outside of the political process. which means their careers are dependent upon not losing their seats.
so if this by-election is lost, there will be changes at the top. Brown will almost certainly go and I can't see Darling staying around, his credibility is non-existent. Even if either Milliband or Balls (both NuLab loyalists) become PM, I imagine there will be a reassertion of the socialist left, theirs has been the only credible critique of late. Even if I personally disagree with their solutions at least they get where the problem lies.
UK politics could get mighty interesting after Crewe keep to the Fen Causeway
So the very personality types they need are absent. However I imagine they might be able to make a fist of some forms of change, but I really think they will have to lick their wounds in oppositon.
I do not celebrate this possibility, this is like preferring McCain to Clinton and will hurt the country. But I simply do not see them creating a new credible narrative with this bunch. keep to the Fen Causeway
Except for that, he'd be the most interesting choice.
Even if either Milliband or Balls (both NuLab loyalists) become PM, I imagine there will be a reassertion of the socialist left, theirs has been the only credible critique of late.
What the party needs is someone with the charisma of Obama and serious left wing policy goals.
I doubt there's anyone like that in the party. Any likely candidates will have been purged.
The Lib Dems are going to have more chance of winning than NuLab will.
Guardian - Jeremy Seabrook - The politics of Impotence
New Labour was thus enlisted on the side of the "forces of conservatism", against which Blair is supposed to have set his face to sternly. With its wholehearted submission to the economics of globalisation, New Labour at the same time provided a strong bulwark against any significant discussion of its political consequences. This is why debate in Britain has been parochial and trivial, and may be the reason why many have voluntarily disfranchised themselves. Popular perception that there is no difference between the Conservatives and New Labour is not a result of apathy or ignorance: it is a proper response to a collusive mainstream agreement on the absence of alternatives.
This is why debate in Britain has been parochial and trivial, and may be the reason why many have voluntarily disfranchised themselves. Popular perception that there is no difference between the Conservatives and New Labour is not a result of apathy or ignorance: it is a proper response to a collusive mainstream agreement on the absence of alternatives.
Excellent.
Otherwise the natural floor is somewhere around 20-25%. And Labour is certainly heading in that direction.
Beyond the Market Economy
which I am seriously considering going to...some really interesting sub-plenaries.
Probably be the usual SWP suspects spouting, but you never know...
Housing...council houses. Yes. That's a no-brainer....but where ? Who builds ? For profit or at cost ? Aye, there's the rub. keep to the Fen Causeway
