Like it or not (and a lot of Fabians definitely do not), most analysts predict a hung Parliament after the 2015 General Election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why, one has to ask? First, why did I read the mail (research, I promise you) and second, why do they want to promote this idea?<\/p>\n
Let's look at the facts: just after two years after a general election they lost badly Labour is consistently 10% in the lead in polls. That's astonishing. It's a massive electoral recovery at a near record rate. And yes, it is a measure of how bad the\u00a0Coalition is. And maybe it's helped by Labour saying not a lot: things may get worse when people realise Labour are\u00a0still talking cuts more than anything else, which is absurd.<\/p>\n
But nothing about such\u00a0predictions makes much sense, at all. To put it another way, they just look wrong, right now.<\/p>\n
But there's a long way to go. Unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve just noticed a Fabian Society email that starts: Like it or not (and a lot of Fabians definitely do not), most analysts predict a
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