Labour’s New Strategy: Fight the Tories

You might think this should have been their strategy all along. But just as Labour in Scotland misidentified their primary enemy, concentrating on the Conservatives when they should have been opposing the SNP so Labour in London has spent the past year looking for monsters in all the wrong places. Peeved by being thrown from office after saving the world, Labour have since moaned and whined and whinged about how beastly the Lib Dems are and how, in some rum fashion, it’s unfair that they’ve broken their promises and are dancing with the Conservatives. Never mind that the Tories made a better offer. 

Still, while this has not been much fun for Nick Clegg and his camp followers it’s been quite good news for David Cameron. For reasons best known to themselves Labour have chosen to marginalise themselves. Sure, Miliband and Balls are all over the teevee but they’re not central to the principle political narrative of the day.