tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14306519.post5848340080930899857..comments2023-07-15T11:16:18.809+01:00Comments on giroscope: Ed Miliband - pissing off the right people (most of the time)T.N.T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13994761000416067940noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14306519.post-5449868210883704392011-10-03T12:20:36.911+01:002011-10-03T12:20:36.911+01:00There are two possible strategies for Labour, and ...There are two possible strategies for Labour, and I agree Ed has gone for the one were I so minded, that actually has echoes of Gordon Brown's strategy. That is to create a powerful coalition of people who will support you no matter how ruinous your policies are for the country as a whole. For Brown, that meant three groups: <br /><br />1/ immigrants, who were deliberately encouraged and given covert advice on how to register electorally and run postal voting fraud so in several cases in the West Midlands , one patriarch literally had nearly 500 votes, many of which were from family members resident in Pakistan or Bangladesh. (But who came to the UK to use the NHS)<br /><br />2/ the NPPS - 'Non productive Public Sector' which effectively comprises the estmiated 650 to 750 thousand 'non jobs' created across quangoes and local authorities by Blair and Brown - if any one of these people vote Tory I'd be surprised<br /><br />3/ welfare recipients/ benefit claimants, whose continued existence provides Group 2 with its raison d'etre (not that they have any interest in solving the problems as to do so would provide a direct threat to THEIR continued existence).<br /><br />Of these three groups, it could be argued the NPPS is under severe (and quite necessary - but I digress) attack by the Coalition, so the strategy for me has to be to maximise group 3, especially prior to the excellent franchise reforms predicted for 2016 which will hopefully begin the process of restricting the franchise so no kind of 'progressive' coalition can ever get us into the state we are currently in.<br /><br />However, the alternative strategy, as touted by Hodges, seems to be to attempt to 'out Tory' the coalition and appeal to the electorate on the right of it. It's not a strategy that I can see working. <br /><br />One caveat, however, and that is that Mr.Ed HAS to win in 2015 for this strategy to work. If he fails, and the Conservatives (by that time, the Liberals will have ceased to exist in my eyes as a separate entity) will alomst certainly pass some sort of bill to deal with the West Lothian question (they've already basically cut the Scottish Tories loose), and combined with the franchise reforms which basically strip people who don't contribute to private sector well being of the vote, Labour doesn't stand a cat in hell's chance of winning ever again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com