WITH respect, I believe the Williams couple asked the wrong question.
As – I presume – Labour supporters, instead of asking others ‘Why vote Tory?’ they should have asked themselves ‘Why didn’t Labour make a better job of selling itself?’.
In my view, Labour wasted five years in opposition.
When it should have been countering the Coalition claims of prior Labour profligacy, it stood by in deafening silence. Labour should remember its role as Opposition now is to oppose. It has to build convincing arguments to show why Tory policies are not the way forward and it has to suggest alternative policies that can lead voters to want to put a cross in the Labour box at the next ballot.
‘Not meeting the needs of aspirational John Lewis shoppers’ is not an excuse. Becoming ‘Tory-lite’ is not a solution.
TONY MILLS
Malmesbury
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