Tuesday 6 October 2009
Good Old George Osborne
There goes the Election for them. Trying to recount the ways would call to mind the ending of Saint John's Gospel. So let's just say two things. Lots of public sector workers live in marginal seats. And people in their fifties are very, very, very likely to vote. Especially after this.
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I must admit I find this new politics very disconcerting. That Labour and Tories would actually vie with each other to appear more draconian....to the public service workers while appearing to be letting the super-rich bankers off the hook.
ReplyDeleteThe much maligned Neil Kinnock confronted Militant at his Partys annual conference with the observation of "a Labour council.......a LABOUR COUNCIL hiring taxis to deliver redundancy notices to its own workers".
Frankly its not a case where Labour has forgotten its core base of manual workers in council estates......or even nurses teachers and Guardian readers. It already has them on-side.
And Osborne has probably work out the Maths as well. Losing the unlikely support of the public sector worker can be balanced by the gain of the middle England types who revile the public sector anyway.
Yes you are right that a lot of public sector workers live in marginals but public sector pay will NOT be the only determining factor.
Nobody has yet analysed tactical voting for 2010.
As I define my basic (non-Irish) politics as being anti-conservative I have always assumed that I could quite happily vote to keep the Tories out......or at least minimise their likely victory in 2010.
Tactical voting has been on the increase ever since 1992. But it will more probably be anti-Labour than anti-Tory this time. And in fact, a lot of people such as head teachers or doctors would have been inclined to vote Tory. Until this.
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