Tuesday 7 October 2014

Miliband reels as Prescott and now his own supporters website say "core vote" strategy is going nowhere

Last week John Prescott piled in http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-prescott-labours-ed-boys-4378508 now it’s the grassroots: LabourList have flipped out about the often denied, yet clearly obvious, 35% strategy that Labour seem hell bent on pursuing. Four polls in a row have them dipping well below 35%  with the Conservatives out in front: this from the Labour List criticism
“So is Labour pursuing a core vote strategy? Compared to what’s on offer at the moment I wish we had a core vote strategy. At the moment we have a “take much of our core vote for granted strategy.
Labour needs to prove that it’s on the side of Britain’s forgotten millions…
At the moment, those millions must still look at Labour and wonder what on earth – and who on earth – we are for.”
The full article is worth a read:  http://labourlist.org/2014/10/how-can-labour-have-a-core-vote-strategy-if-our-core-vote-dont-know-what-were-for/