The leaves are falling fast off the horse chestnut trees opposite my house. The chances are that the branches will be thickly green again by the time we reach the General Election. That interval is a significant opportunity for Labour to get its message out properly. Hardly getting any recognition in the media today is that the net effect of the conference season is that Labour's polling rate is up and the Tories' down. So the threats to destroy public services are not having quite the desired effect.
The Daily Telegraph which I read in order to know how the enemy, how the establishment really thinks, is truly insufferable right now. Today's front-page photo - a contrived [one year old] picture of Jacqui Smith at a youth centre - with theft scrawled above her head. At least I think it's theft, and not The FT. The expense stuff is not party political anyway. It only seems to be more of a Labour thing because we have over 50% of parliamentary seats. We therefore should be striving for most of the positive messages in the media. Messages about taking the right steps as we edge out of recession and understanding the value of properly-funded public services. Today's accounts of increases in recorded cases of child neglect reaffirm that this is no time for slash and burn.
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