If I were a Labour voter….I’d be wondering where it all went SO wrong

safe_image.php

If I were a Labour voter, I would be worried. Worried that it is unclear what we even stand for anymore. Worried that we no longer have a safety blanket of fifty Scottish MPs, worried that our once safe seats in the North are becoming Ukip hotspots. Worried that maybe we’re not tough enuss. But more than anything else, worried that it is a long, long road back from here.

If I were a Labour voter, I would be carrying out some serious soul searching. Should we keep banging the working class drum? With fewer people describing themselves as working class than ever before, surely we are relying on an ever decreasing demographic. That horrifying moment when we had to drop Clause IV and silently come to terms with Maggie being right. Free market economics makes everyone better off, how could she do that to our supporter base?

If I were a Labour voter, I would question our credibility when it comes to the economy. That triple-dip recession that we predicted didn’t actually happen, did it? More annoyingly, the Tories have done a pretty good job of making us the fastest growing economy in Europe. Could the long term economic plan actually be working?

If I were a Labour voter, I would reconsider our links with the trade unions. Run by hard-Left dinosaurs, the bloated holders of the party purse have too much influence over who leads our party, and will surely keep us in the electoral wilderness for decades. Anyone who can remember the seventies can attest to the havoc their stranglehold of the government caused. Please don’t let them back another turkey.

If I were a Labour voter, I would put my thinking cap on. We need to win over Tory voters if we are ever to come back into political significance, and with our party so far removed from the mood of the electorate, it won’t be an easy task. We need to stop believing that it was Rupert Murdoch that lost us the election. Let’s talk about the economy with a sense of reality, let’s discuss immigration using our heads rather than our hearts, let’s have an open discussion about Europe.

If I were a Labour voter, I would have to check my medication. How is it that we have such delusions over of the makeup of modern Britain? And when did those bastard Tories become the party of the working man? Sure, their policies attract those who get up every day and put in the hours to improve their lot. Sure, our welfarism isn’t popular with those who pay for it. Sure, the Chancellor has cut income tax for 30 million of the poorest people in our society, and taken those working 30 hours a week on minimum wage out of income tax altogether, and brought down unemployment, and introduced tax free childcare. But the Tories are the nasty party, right?

If I were a Labour voter, I would be wondering where it all went so wrong. When did representing the interests and needs of working people become open-door immigration? When did it become state bureaucracy? When did it become the worldview of a certain metropolitan elite? When did it become an obsession with political correctness?

If I were a Labour voter, I would ask myself one question. Why?

Follow Ed on Twitter

One Comment

  1. Pingback: If I Were a Labour Voter |