: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:19 am
Old Labour policies are fine, but unfortunately would not win an election and had it not been for Yvette and many of her contemporaries, then the Tories would be in power and we would have already seen the demise of the NHS and so much more than is already the case. The fact that has to be faced up to is that there are not enough traditional labour party voters in the country to vote Labour into power these days and the party has had to move a little to the right (OK some might say a lot), or otherwise be doomed to opposition for keeps.
Unfortunately, because the labour party has had to move with the times to capture the middle of the road voter, those on the left of the party have become more and more disillusioned and will vote for anyone but the official labour candidate, as we’ve seen recently with the people of Barnsley voting the BNP into power, they can’t see that voting against such as Yvette Cooper, is simply playing into the hands of the Tories and letting them in by the back door. OK Yvette is relatively safe in her seat, but others are not so fortunate and I have no doubt we'll see the poor get even poorer if (or when) David Cameron and his cronies are elected.
OK some of the things this labour government have done haven’t been very clever, and some of the stories coming out in the expenses claims scandal have tarnished the reputation of all MP’s. But where would the lower paid be if the tories were in power? well for a start there would be no minimum wage, that will no doubt go with pressure from the CBI, then watch for the NHS and more public services disappear by stealth. You may not agree with everything Yvette and the labour party are doing, but you can be sure that the alternative will be far less palatable.
