Old & Sad

As predicted Labour won this by-election and the Tories came in third. It is difficult to see how anything will be affected by this result and thus the anguish expressed by some Tories is in my view overdone. I have to say that Lady Warsi's comments about the Tory right's supposed reaction were overdone as well and indeed rather irritating. I regard myself as being on the right of the party but, like I'm sure most Tory voters,  I'm infinitely happier having the coalition than not having Labour in power. I would be happier still having a Tory government although save in two or three cases I'm not sure whilst Cameron is in charge how different its policies would be from those of the coalition. In concluding that the by-election result will change nothing I have taken Ed Miliband's comments on the outcome into account. With the best will in the world Miliband's response can hardly have inspired many in his party when he said that the result shows the coalition's economic policies are wrong. Labour has some way to go yet before a majority will believe that they can be trusted with the economy again. Why a majority would ever believe that is beyond me since history has shown that Labour has left the economy in a God awful mess each time it has been voted out of office. Much better not to vote them in the first place.