With 16 months to go, Ed Miliband is beginning to put in place some key policy commitments, notably the realignment of corporate power in several sectors in order to address the living standards crisis and the lopsidedness of a recovery that benefits only the top 1%. But if Labour is not only to win the […]
Posts Tagged ‘2015 general election’
Tories start 2014 with victory looking impossible: Labour must not be timid
Jan 6th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Lord Ashcroft, the Tory peer who is Cameron’s nemesis, has just produced a very accurate poll of Tory opinion across the country with just 16 months to the election which reveals the Tories as almost certain losers. He divided the 8,000 questioned, a very large sample, into 4 categories: loyalists, joiners, defectors, and considerers. Disastrously […]
Will 2015 Be Labour’s Poisoned Chalice?
Dec 30th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.It’s tough being a political party. Life outside of government is relatively care free affair. You can formulate policy, spend your time critiquing and criticising, and look forward to a fair amount of time sat atop opinion polls. But once you’re in power it’s a whole different ball game. It’s time to come up with […]