Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
I think the Tories have got the "middle ground" covered now, so it's pointless Labour going there anyway. So is the Labour party in effect irrelevant now? Obviously the Tories HAVE to deliver now as, as another poster has pointed out, the traditional Labour voters in the North will desert them in 5 years time and we will be back to square one.
Putting things into a Welsh context an expert on the box the other day was talking about it being a big step to abandon a party that you have always voted for that perhaps your parents had always voted for but once the spell is broken then those voters are in play the next time round, they might well not vote for the party that they have left and they might not vote for the party they had just voted for but they might vote for another party - I wonder if the home team Plaid Cymru could profit ?, time will tell.