yes, Alan, that's the point I've been trying to make. Thank you.
Christies is a dead issue. In terms of current politics it is irrelevant.
You don't win back votes by shouting "yah boo" and just calling john leech a liar. For a start, you insult the intelligence of the people who voted for him, which is a pretty bloody stupid way of trying to win their votes back.
A bit of humility would help, accepting that labour screwed up here on the NHS and left themselves vulnerable to accusations over Christies, and distancing themselves from the fiasco in Iraq, for instance.
I don't think they realise just how boring and offputting they've become.
If they carry on like this, they have no chance of getting this seat back, because the only people listening to them will be themselves.
Personally I have a lot of sympathy for local Labour activists because National policies, about which they can do nothing, have hamstrung them and lost them the last election. But this tedious harping on about old lost battles just makes them look petty and stupid.
