To Labour, A Point

Why did Labour lose last week's General Election, and so badly?

Well, according to wannabe new party leader David "Bananaman" Miliband and his team, it was simply because they didn't manage to get their message across (an old excuse I have heard many times down the years). As Ollie Cromwell has written: is that really all the voting public were telling Labour activists on the doorstep?

Of course not; but prospective party leaders can hardly afford to be honest when the real message from the electorate is so negative (and deserves to be), at least in the Labour camp. Lord Falconer is almost as bad, as became clear this past evening.

Fortunately at least one or two others are being more open, such as John Denham. There is a good quotation from him at the linked Spectator article, of which this is the nub:

"Most obvious is just how catastrophic our defeat was. While neither the Conservatives nor the Lib Dems triumphed alone, large parts of England have little or no Labour representation, and our share of the vote in many regions was tiny. Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered."

There's a real message for Labour in there.

Also, Jack Straw "gets it", as Janet Daley reports in a so very truthful assessment of who does and who doesn't decide elections. Her spot-on analysis of Straw's careful words shows that it is indeed the "decent hard-working families" who decide it, as well as making the point that "fair" means something different to most of us from what Labour try to suggest and how they practised their social engineering manipulations for the past thirteen years.

That is the point that can be made to Labour; but as a party they'll probably never learn the lesson or even want to, as it runs entirely contrary to their society-wrecking agenda. They'll have to wait for the next generation of Lefty-teacher-indoctrinated children to reach voting age, and once again get let back in as they have with each preceding generation in the post-war era.

Dizzy has written an open letter to Labour members that could also be very helpful in aiding their understanding of the real Britain rather than the one they like to imagine.

Of course, with modern communications pervading our society, the BBC (now in full-on biased mode, as this evening's Question Time and their blatantly slanted reporting on the new coalition government show beyond any doubt) will also enhance Labour's future prospects, unless something is done about that dreadful excuse for a public service broadcaster, and soon, before they can inflict even more harm on our society.

Without the Beeb, and it looks like The Guardian might well soon become non-viable (Mirror next?), Labour will struggle to be re-elected even a generation from now (i.e. in 18 to 20 years' time), and if the Left teachers fall by the wayside as a side-effect of Michael Gove's school reforms, then there ought never again to be a Labour (or similar) government in this country.

Now that's what I'd call "progressive" (to borrow one of the Left's currently corrupted words) !