Labour is in deep trouble and they know it!

Watching Question Times, for the first time in a while, I stopped watching because it was become monotonously one-sided, it suddenly dawned on me how our politics and political debates will look like for the next five years.

Yes, the next five years, because the collation partners are determined to see this parliament through and well – and here rests Labour’s core problem!

Every time a Labour politician opens their mouth they lay heavily on the LibDems – but all they are saying is; “thousands of LibDem voters and a couple of councillors has defected to us, LibDems abandoning some polices to be in a coalition is the end of them and will finish them off”

But, what Labour seems to forget is the nature of coalition government, which by the way is the main reason they are not in government today, and that is sacrificing a few personal polices for better overall ones, both sides have and must do so in order to achieve unity.

Externally, it looks like Labour is pointing out the Liberal’s weakness by trying to paint them as the weaker partner who will be swallowed by the bigger beastly Tories, and justifying it by saying “look, look your members are flocking over to us in their thousands – you will be finished”. But internally, deep down inside, what Labour is most fearful of is their own end, Labour becoming the third party and what might happen to them during the five years of coalition government!

In 1994, they had Blair and Brown, who although they showed a brave face on the surface of it, underneath were not and divided the party, that division did not openly show itself to the public straight away but nevertheless it was there eating away at their unity. With Brown, the rightful heir to Smith leading in the finial chapter and then losing in more ways than one. Labour is now petrified of a repeat, a repeat in a different media age, with all eyes firmly on them – And this time they are blood brothers!

Whoever wins the Labour leadership tomorrow, internally the Labour party will continue to stay divided. However they try to deflect the attention, by continuously belittling the liberals, the rest of the country will continue to appreciate and respect the selfless union of the coalition.