Stupid unforced errors

As George Osborne has it, Labour have voluntarily turned themselves into the Nasty Party.

Mad. Any party whose political judgement has failed it so completely that it really believes an orchestrated exhibition of sheer meanness is electorally attractive, and just what an anxious electorate needs to hear, desperately needs a long lie-down.

Er, this campaign was sanctioned at the very top, wasn't it, Gordon? Part of the Vision for Change, was it?

Jolly well done, old Bean.

OK, you've got the Nasty Party label, now. Any other Tory millstones you'd like to try out? Help yourself. Ah, no. I see you're raiding your own archive from... oh look, 1929. Topical, huh?

No, let's be serious for a minute. You really should abandon all this Blairite nonsense and go for that Ole Time Religion. Just what Britain needs to see us safely into the future. Socialism, neat.

Here's your winning recipe, Gordon.

More welfare-ism, a bigger de-socialised underclass, more Labour-payroll voters in public services and quangos - and let's have a few more of those - plus more borrowing and PFI to keep our grandchildren in hock and fuck the next government, more low-paid people paying tax when they shouldn't, more faked government figures, more pension-robbery, more windfall taxes, higher inflation and collapsing equities, more emigration to escape your police state, more immigration to challenge our identity and our resources, more appointed quasi-government 'assemblies', higher council tax all round, more regulations on small businesses (you know, those nasty little Tory voters who employ 80 per cent of the working population), cuts to the police and Army, some nice big databases and ID cards all round (don't forget to train the police in saying 'Show me your papers') , more powers sent out of our Parliament and vested in unelected foreign officials, more camera surveillance of our politically-castrated citizens, more...

Oh, sod it. Let's cut to the chase. Bring on have those constitutional reforms you are gagging to introduce. How does it go? Ah yes: Everything Which Is Not Compulsory Is Forbidden.

Yep, that's a clear, socialist Vision, all right. Yep. They'll go for that.