Labour Listen To People Shocker!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32863749
Has Harperson finally decided that Labour should take some notice of public opinion?

[Zacs-Master]

Headline should be 'Labour lose election so jump on Tory bandwagon..Again'

[douglas9401]

Utterly revolting creature.

[baza]

Nothing to add to the above comments.

[Gromit]

The Conservatives have a majority, so there is little point opposing the bill. The sooner the referendum takes place and the public votes to stay in, the better for everyone. So Labour does not want to slow the bill down. Once it is out of the way, it will be one less thing that is a possible vote loser for Labour.

[Zacs-Master]

1 down 999 to go.

[andy-hughes]

It's a no-brainer to realise that opposing the policies of the party that's just thrashed you in an election is really not going to win the next one.

What Labour need to learn is not to listen to the chattering classes who elected Milliband, and seemed think he was a potential Prime Minister - clearly he was anything but - and listen to the people who actually vote, and that includes the people they would like to vote for them.

It's time Labour lost its backwards-looking 'working bloke' attitude and realised that its core vote are aspirational achieving people, which is why they lined up with the Conservatives, who manage to sound like they don't think that aspiration is a dirty word.

Electing someone chosen by the inner party has been a disaster, Labour need to the entire party members, not just those who live inside the M25 and maybe - just maybe, they can change enough in five years to make some difference.

Although looking at the choice of shadow ministers for leader, they have got a difficult task choosing anyone who is really any better than Milliband was.

[Baldric]

They're not really listening, it's just a cunning plan!

[Gromit]

Andy Hughes,

You clearly are clueless about how Ed Miliband became leader of the Labour Party. It was not the 'chattering classes' that elected Miliband, it was the influence of left wing Unions.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_election,_2010

[ichkeria]

The Tories won the election and well done to them for that, but while part of the reason for that was of course that the policies and message of the Labour party could be improved, well you could say that about just about any of the parties.
The Tories collected about 37% of the vote of the 65% or so who actually voted: which doesn't exactly suggest that they have their finger much more on the pulse than anyone else. And had the turn out among younger voters been higher the result would have been very different.
As for the question at hand, well of course Labour is now going to back the referendum Bill. It would be bizarre if they were to do otherwise, especially as it would get through eventually anyway. Best to get on with the referendum which most people probably want.

[Marshwarble]

Is Harperson her Eye name?

[bazwillrun]

Ive always called her Harridan Harman...another odious leftie of the worst kind

[naomi24]

I agree with Baldric. It won't last.

[bazwillrun]

"Andy Hughes,

You clearly are clueless about how Ed Miliband became leader of the Labour Party. "

oh dear...stand by to see AH come and defend himself and spend the next X days going round in the usual circular arguement...Zzzzz

[tonyav]

It's time Labour lost its backwards-looking 'working bloke' attitude


Andy, they lost that some years ago when they put Blair in charge.

[andy-hughes]

baz - //"Andy Hughes,

You clearly are clueless about how Ed Miliband became leader of the Labour Party. "

oh dear...stand by to see AH come and defend himself and spend the next X days going round in the usual circular arguement...Zzzzz //

Sorry to be unpredictable, but having checked Gromit's evidence, I see that he is right and I was mistaken, so no point defending my position, which I only do if I believe I am right.

[mushroom25]

//They're not really listening, it's just a cunning plan! //

of course they're not, and the last election would have demonstrated to them that the electorate are clearly a body of opinion that are absolutely not to be trusted.