Are Labour really going to fight their European Election campaign on the theme of having their “backs to the wall”? They could not have chosen a better slogan.
The party has seen its support in the opinion polls plummet in recent weeks and faces the real prospect of losing one of its two Welsh seats in the European Parliament. A large number of voters blame them for the recession and in particular for failing to get to grips with the banks early enough so as to avert the worst effects of the downturn.
Billions of pounds of public money have been pumped into financial institutions with little effect whilst the Prime Minister looks more and more isolated, predicting only yesterday for example that the recession will be over within months. Presumably, he had been just reading Lewis Carroll. The £40 billion that the government is in hock to the bankers for could build over 1,000 Comprehensive Schools.
Voters really do have their backs to the wall in terms of coping with a reduced income, the possible repossession of their home, job insecurity and unemployment. They may very well make sure Labour pays for that when polls open in early June.
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