Is noo Labour's "project" over?

[Loosehead]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1 309649,00.html
or can they turn it round by the next election?

[Tichfield]

If it stays like that it will mean that the next general election won't be until 2010.

In the meantime maybe Livingstone will get booted out in May this year.

[Loosehead]

not sure what you mean by that steve, john Major did 7 years initially being unelected. Are you saying he's the only one that has ever won an election from inheriting the PM ship as it where?

[Tichfield]

Macmillan "inherited" the PMship in 1957, won an election in 1959 and stayed as PM for another three years.

Labour's problem is that they have been "in" for too long, and if people decide that they want a change then there is nothing Brown & Co can do about it.

[Lonnie]

One of the replyees said that they had destroyed everything British,
Thats wrong,
They've destroyed everything English, plus breaking up the United Kingdom.

But I still think they'll get in next time, because by the time they call the General Election, we'll almost be a one Party state.

[sp1214]

Labout have come unstuck recently but those with short memories will regret a switch to the tories. What is likely to happen if they get back in power.

1. Private schooling and hospital treatment will be encouraged. Nice if you can afford it but with many tied to high mortgages not a hell's chance.

2. Tax breaks for the upple middle classes paid for by the working poor.

3. More strikes taking place to achieve the status quo.

4. More managers employed to keep the workers on their toes.

5. The minimum wage frozen.

[Kromovaracun]

sp1214: Not likely. The Conservatives have been out of power for one of the longest stretches since the war. Which historically is unusual for the Conservatives. All those policies are pretty unpopular, so they won't try them.

It's pretty clear that Labour's chances of a turnaround are pretty slim. While David Cameron is a twerp, he seems to be attracting people (for some reason best known to themselves) when in any other circumstances he'd be unelectable (and could still be).

Still, 2 years is a long time. Events could turn the public Labour's way again but it's unlikely. Though not unheard of by any means.

What I'll be quite interested to see is what'll happen to Labour as a party when (if?) they loose in the next election. Will they keep the mantle of 'New Labour' or scrap it due to its rather negative association? Whatever happens, it'll be interesting, as Brown will doubtlessly be done away with.

[Kromovaracun]

I honestly don't understand the appeal of Cameron. Unless it's in a sort of psychiatry patient fascination kind of way. He's Blair MkII.

He does unfortunately have one of the greatest gifts in politics: luck. And Brown is very lacking thereof.

[Quinlad]

Brown must be praying for the Falklands to be invaded again. That seems to do the trick for an unpopular government.